Embedded Software Developer

Job Title: Embedded Software Developer

ID # 80RR ESD

Location: Ottawa – On-site

Term: Full-time

Salary Scale: 120K

High Tech Genesis is seeking an Intermediate to Senior Software Developer to join our Research & Development team working on advanced radar emulation systems, specifically supporting the MRC Threat 2 Vertical Radar Emulation platform. This is a hands-on development role requiring strong technical expertise in C and Go, combined with the ability to understand system-level architecture and contribute to high-level application design.

The successful candidate will be part of a collaborative, multicultural engineering team operating in a dynamic, innovative, and technically challenging environment. This role requires an engineer who can think beyond individual tasks, understand system context, and contribute meaningfully to architectural and design decisions.

This is a full-time term position for a duration of two years.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

• Design and implement real-time embedded software (firmware) in C / C on ARM and Microchip processors

• Customize Uboot and Linux for D-TA embedded controllers

• Work closely with the other engineering disciplines (systems, hardware and RF) on system integration.

• Maintain existing code bases

Requirements:

• Eng. or equivalent degree in Electronics/Computer/Systems Engineering or Computer Science

• 5 years of embedded software development experience

• Ability to use best design practices to create modular and readable C and C code

• Strong initiative and willingness to solve problems autonomously

• Hands-on experience in board bring up and initial engineering debug

• Experience in developing and debugging device drivers, bootloaders, or board support packages (BSP)

• Familiar with GNU toolchain, Linux, UBoot

• Strong low-level software experience and interaction with hardware

• Experience with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and spectrum analyzers

• Experience with the following: UART, SPI, I2C, NAND, network interfaces

• Experience with Microchip MPLab IDE (PIC32MZ series processors)

• Familiar with XML, python, Linux bash scripting

• High standards of ethics and confidentiality to handle sensitive information

• Eligible for Canadian security clearance up to secret

Set Qualifications:

• Hardware design experience including FPGA design experience is an asset

• Experience with RF systems is an asset

• Experience with low power design is an asset

• Experience with multi-core processors an asset