Embedded Software Engineer - Military Veterans
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Embedded Software Engineer
Kelly® Engineering is seeking an Embedded Software Engineer with bare metal work experience for a direct-hire position with our client, a manufacturer of avionics instruments and power systems in Wichita. If you are passionate about shaping the world we live in and are ready to reengineer your future, trust the experts at hiring experts.
Salary/Pay Rate/Compensation:
$130,000-$140,000, relocation & H1-B transfer available
Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 15 days PTO, 8 paid holidays, 401K with match, a good work culture, a 40-hour work week, and the cutting-edge projects.
Additional perks: Upon retirement from company 1 week pay per year of tenure, anniversary & holiday bonuses, company provided lunches, food trucks, and birthday snacks.
Overview
Our client designs & manufactures avionics, power supplies, and custom solutions for commercial and military aircraft. Their customers include manufacturers of small business jets, large commercial airplanes, and the US Military. They develop and utilize their own hardware, software, and their own operating system for their products. Our client is a small company with manufacturing onsite. You’ll have opportunity to be involved in the entire product lifecycle from concept through manufacturing. This includes collaboration with hardware, mechanical, manufacturing.
As part of the product development team, you’ll develop embedded software solutions for custom products running under custom operating systems. You’ll develop code for microcontrollers, PCBs, battery management, chargers, power conversion, and other product functions. You’ll be involved in projects from concept, design, testing, manufacturing and work onsite in both an office & test lab environment.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement embedded C software for bare-metal microcontroller-based systems with an option for VHDL firmware for FPGA-based systems
- Research new components, technologies, and methods to incorporate into new designs
- Design software-based tools to support verification and manufacturing
- Build and troubleshoot hardware, including basic soldering, operation of test equipment, and daily work in both office and test lab environments
- Prototype and execute test programs to verify compliance with applicable performance, regulatory, and quality requirements
- Create and document designs in required formats, including BOMs, ECOs, and work instructions
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science
- 10+ years’ experience designing embedded software using C is a hard requirement including:
- Full end to end design exposure – front end concept, design, prototype, V&V, manufacturing launch troubleshooting, post release support.
- Programming in VHDL for FPGA is preferred
- Proficiency with C++, C#, or Python are pluses but not required (used as support tools and not the primary skill set)
- Knowledge of analog or mixed signal hardware a plus.
- Full end to end design exposure – front end concept, design, prototype, V&V, manufacturing launch troubleshooting, post release support.
- Record of products being sold in the market with your software controlling the functionality of the product.
- Hands on PCB, microcontroller, hardware, or electronic troubleshooting shooting experience – soldering/assembly of hardware to test software functionality, required.
- Any aerospace or DoD project experience a plus, but not required.
- Any working knowledge of Design for Manufacture and Design for Test (DFM & DFT)
What happens next:
Once you apply, you’ll proceed to next steps if your skills and experience look like a good fit. But don’t worry – even if this position doesn’t work out, you’re still in the Kelly Engineering network. That means our team of expert engineering recruiters will have access to your profile, making your opportunities limitless.
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Wichita, KS
Why Kelly - Since 2011 we have placed over 16,000 Veterans
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Kelly applies targeted recruiting initiatives to the Veterans population (in all stages of transition) by aligning customer defined requirements with military skills and experience. The transition from military to civilian life can be stressful and complex for veterans, and our staff is trained to assist in this transition. Unlike our competition, Kelly places these resources without geographic or industry constraints, offering our customers and our employees greater flexibility. Kelly has a wide variety of local opportunities, for Veterans and their spouses, within our workforce solutions as well as national recruiting programs on behalf of our customers. Kelly’s leading placement opportunities for Veterans are within Information Technology, Engineering, Science, Light Industrial and Call Center.
Our specially trained Veteran recruiters are armed with a number of tools to help Veterans obtain roles that match their potential including skill translation tools, leading Veteran- centric job boards and Veteran/spouse social media networks, among others.
Through Kelly’s vast branch network, we are closely located to the majority of major military installations across the United States. Kelly recruiters participate in onsite and virtual military career fairs as well as advertise through local and national Veteran job boards. In recent years, over 150 Kelly branches have worked directly with their local military installations to recruit spouses and transitioning personnel. These teams not only engages with transitioning talent from local bases, but also have a strong focus on Veterans in areas where the military has identified high Veteran unemployment. This approach ensures that military talent is engaged and shared across the centralized military recruiting team and documented in a centralized database, so that other Kelly locations can benefit from hiring or relocating this valuable pool of talent.
Our focus on military recruiting is a win on multiple levels. Kelly gains top talent with the skills needed to excel; our clients receive the benefit of that talent to help them compete in an ever challenging business landscape; and Veterans receive gainful employment in line with their skills and abilities to ease the transition to the next phase of their lives.
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