Hybrid)

Eikon Research Inc•Huntsville, AL

6d•$120,000 - $140,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Eikon Research team is expanding and we are currently seeking a Radar Software Engineer to join our team in Huntsville, Alabama or remote and coming on site periodically. This is a long-term opportunity to work with radar designs and build something new. The ideal candidate will offer design, development, and improvement of software for our family of ground-based radar systems. The successful candidate will take software designs/requirements and translate them into clear, well-documented, code. A strong understanding of C++ language fundamentals, computer networking, and parallel processing paradigms is required.

Requirements

Candidate must have Bachelor's Degree in computer science or engineering-related field or 5+ years additional experience in lieu of a degree.
Candidate must be US Citizen
Candidate must have active DoD Secret Clearance, or ability to obtain DoD Secret Clearance
5+ years experience with C++11 or later, CMake, and GCC for ARM and x86-64 targets
Practical Linux usage
Version Control Experience (Git, GitLab)
Ability to work in-office when performing hardware integration and testing
Ability to work in both a group and individual capacity

Nice To Haves

Background in radar, signal processing, or electrical engineering
Background in embedded systems and real-time software development
Background experience with AMD / Xilinx Zynq / Zynq Ultrascale MPSoC or RFSoC (Multi-Processor System-on-Chip or RF System-on-Chip), or AMD / Xilinx FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays)

Responsibilities

Develop software implementations of radar algorithms, from low-level radar signal processing to high-level tracking algorithms. Implementation targets may include virtual machines, embedded systems, etc.
Develop software to interface with embedded systems, microcontrollers, and FPGAs. Software may include command-line test tools, benchmarks, or other utilities to assist in testing firmware
Develop unit and integration tests for new and existing codebases
Develop new functionalities using distributed message frameworks and message passing architectures; add functionalities to interact with the radar user interface
Develop documentation in-code and in PowerPoint / Word for use in product documentation
Develop performance improvements to existing code
Participate in Agile development practices including daily standups and sprint planning / reviews
Utilize tools such as Git, GitLab, Jira, and Doxygen for code management, issue tracking, Agile planning, and documentation
Flexibility to assist on other projects at Eikon as needed. This may include development in other languages (C++/C, Java, MATLAB, JavaScript), participation in software architecture design discussions, documentation, code testing, code reviews, etc.