RT SW Developer

About the role

Bird Aerosystems is hiring a senior real-time embedded software engineer for a team of 11 that builds firmware for airborne systems.

The role sits at the hardware/software boundary. You will bring up new boards, write drivers and real-time firmware on ARM and FPGA-based platforms, and take features from design through lab integration to field trials. We are looking for an electronics engineer who writes production C/C++ and is at home with a scope and a schematic.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop real-time embedded software in C/C++ on ARM-based platforms (STM32, Xilinx Zynq / UltraScale+) under an RTOS or bare metal

• Bring up new boards: low-level drivers, BSP, bootloader and embedded Linux kernel adaptation

• Implement and integrate communication interfaces and protocols (SPI, I2C, UART, RS-422/485, Ethernet, TCP/IP)

• Work closely with hardware, FPGA and RF engineers to define and debug HW/SW interfaces

• Debug in the lab with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and JTAG debuggers

• Implement and optimize signal-processing and control algorithms on embedded targets

• Build PC-side test, simulation and automation tools (Python, C#)

• Own modules end to end: requirements, design, documentation, integration, testing and field trials

Requirements

• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Electrical or Electronics Engineering

• 5+ years of hands-on real-time embedded software development

• Strong C and C++ on ARM microcontrollers or SoCs

• Development on an RTOS (e.g. VxWorks, FreeRTOS, uC/OS, INTEGRITY) or bare metal, not only embedded Linux

• Proven board bring-up and low-level driver/BSP experience, including lab debugging with a scope and logic analyzer

• Hands-on experience with peripheral and communication interfaces: SPI, I2C, UART, RS-422/485, Ethernet, TCP/IP

• Professional working English (reading and writing technical documents)

Advantages

Strong advantage:

• Signal processing, communications or RF background: DSP algorithms, SDR, modems, radar, image or video processing

• FPGA exposure (VHDL/Verilog, Xilinx Vivado or Intel Quartus), enough to work closely with FPGA developers

• Defense, airborne, UAV or electro-optical systems experience

• Built a system from scratch through integration and field trials

• Writes own PC-side tools in Python, C#, Qt or LabVIEW

Nice to have:

• Xilinx Zynq / UltraScale+ experience

• Embedded Linux kernel, u-boot and Yocto/Buildroot

• Technical leadership or module ownership in a small team

• DO-178 or another safety-critical development process

• Hebrew