EMBEDDED SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS ENGINEER

ROLE OVERVIEW

We are seeking an Embedded Software Applications Engineer professional to join our expanding Software Applications team in Pune, India.

The team involves with all aspects of embedded software such as SW & HW designs, feature prototyping, feature integration, SW customization & performance optimization related to our motor control solutions.

This position requires a strong Embedded Software Engineer with 5+ years relevant experience. The successful candidate will be responsible for direct technical customer support to address questions regarding Allegro’s motor control products in the software and hardware domains.

The candidate must quickly ramp-up onto an existing project, understand automotive platform hardware and software driver architecture, read/write technical specifications/requirements, demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, and work closely with external customers to customize and launch their new products.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Requirements development with the customer and alignment of the software needs with Allegro software development team.
• Customer support, embedded SW application note creation and development of example codes required from customers.
• Support on meeting with customer, support design proposals for new business opportunities.
•  Customer on-site support, including international travel.
• Designing, simulating, implementing, documenting, and testing motor control software for various end-equipment, with focus on automotive.
• Participate in simulation (SIL, MIL), programming, calibration, testing working with hardware test bench or HIL System.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Qualifications

• The successful candidate will possess at least a bachelor’s in electrical, electronics, embedded, software field

Experience

Essential

• Understanding motor control algorithms such as the sensored, Sensorless, field-oriented control.
• Background with Cortex-M series embedded SW development in C
• Extensive experience with real time embedded software engineering and control design
• Proficiency in C languages for embedded software and object-oriented programming (C++)
• Experience to develop automotive serial communication such like LIN and CAN
• Full software lifecycle experience (ASPICE L2)
• Analyse, review, manage and trace software requirements.
• Proficiency in debugging complex issues.
• Proficiency in understanding complex software architecture definition that leads to software code development.
• GitLab, or any other version control and issue tracking systems
• Familiarity with hardware communication protocols such as SPI, I2C, UART.
• Participate in coding reviews using Code Collaborator
• Familiarity with software compilers such as IAR Workbench or ARM Keil
• Use oscilloscopes, logic analysers and other hardware related inspection tools
• Challenge workflows and recommend processes for improvement.

Desirable

• Experience with Unit Testing Tools (NUnit/Cantata/Parasoft).
• Understanding of analog / digital electronics and power electronics
• Demonstrable software and scripting language skills
• Experience using microcontrollers and firmware programming
• Cross platform capabilities, able to perform work on a Windows or Linux environment
• Embedded testing with white box/black box testing skills
• Awareness of ISO26262 industry standards.

Skills, Knowledge and Aptitudes:

Candidates should also be able to demonstrate:

• Good presentation skills in English and the ability to present technical information in a clear and concise manner.
• Self-motivated, passionate, positive and hard-working with an energy and enthusiasm to drive quality and to improve the service that the software team provides to stakeholders, internally and externally.
• Ability to work independently and manage time effectively.

The ability to work as part of a global development team with diverse engineering disciplines.