Intermediate Software Engineer (Designer)

Are you an innovative and flexible self-starter? Do you have keen software engineering skills? We’re looking for highly motivated software designers who live and breathe embedded software design to help us create the latest in embedded systems technology. We need enthusiastic team players who want to share, discuss, and brainstorm ideas with our top-notch engineering team at our dynamic organization.

Location: Ottawa, ON

Curtiss-Wright invests in the development, recruitment, and retention of critical skills as part of its model for business success. We offer a competitive wage, a comprehensive benefit package, RRSP, tuition reimbursement, and paid vacation/holidays.

What do we do, and how do you fit in? Curtiss-Wright creates a wide variety of embedded compute products designed for the rugged defense industry. Our customers want the latest cutting-edge consumer technology adapted to a rugged form factor and our mission is to make that a reality! As part of a dynamic multi-disciplined team, your job will be to support the development of new embedded systems products, and to enhance our existing products.

What do we need from you? The Software Designer is responsible for all aspects of software development; you must be resourceful and able to overcome new challenges using insightful design and engineering skills coupled with innovative approaches. In a nutshell, we need your sharp expertise to help define new embedded products, implement product enhancements and contribute to process improvements.

Your Challenge

• Keep current with embedded software trends and share knowledge.
• Provide input to architecture and design reviews.
• Reading and understanding IC datasheets, register descriptions and board schematics.
• Conduct architecture, design and code reviews.
• Support and enhance existing embedded software.
• Provide input and evaluation of new technologies and products.
• Apply established development processes and assist in process improvement.
• Participate in maintaining a positive and productive atmosphere within the team.
• Engineer, Design, Develop and Test new embedded products at the forefront of technology.
• Analyze requirements, research and identify solutions and develop the design.

Skills Required

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong understanding of software design and engineering principals and application to real world use.
• Be a driven and motivated self-starter with a keen interest to learn.
• Results-oriented team player who leads by example, holds themselves accountable for performance, takes ownership of their responsibilities, and champions process improvement initiatives
• Proficient using the high-level programming language such a C to solve computing problems.
• Strong sense of responsibility, commitment to quality and achieving deadlines
• Development of real-time embedded software solutions for Intel, Power Architecture and Arm processors.

Education/Experience

• Experience working with a multi-disciplined team
• Software work and defect tracking tools such as JIRA.
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Computer Science (or equivalent).
• Requirements analysis and tracking.
• Software configuration management tools such as Git.
• VxWorks BSPs and VxBus device driver development
• Focus on writing supportable, portable code.
• Software test tools and methodologies.
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices and standards.
• Use of HW debugging tools, such as Digital Analyzers, Oscilloscopes, and DMMs.
• Hobby projects with Raspberry Pi and/or Arduino
• Linux BSPs and device driver development
• 5 years + experience in software development
• Experience/familiarity in the following is an asset:
• Das U-Boot or UEFI/BIOS firmware development
• Scripting tools and languages such as Python.
• Linux OS distributions such as (Red Hat Enterprise, CentOS Stream, Alma, Fedora, and YOCTO)

No unsolicited agency submittals please. Agency partners must be invited to participate in a search by our Talent Acquisition Team and have signed terms in place prior to any submittal. Resumes submitted directly to any Curtiss-Wright employee or affiliate will not qualify for fee payment, and therefore become the property of Curtiss-Wright.

Compliance Statement

This position may require exposure to export-controlled information and subject to additional security screening. In the event information provided during the security screening reveals ineligibility to access export-controlled information, any offer of employment may be reconsidered or withdrawn.

Curtiss-Wright values diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

If you require accommodation due to a disability at any time during the recruitment and/or assessment process, please contact Talent Acquisition and we will make all reasonable efforts to accommodate your request.