(Embedded) Software Engineer III

Company Overview

Iridium is an award-winning and innovative satellite communications company with bragging rights to the only network that offers voice and data connectivity anywhere in the world. For over 20 years, Iridium’s unique network and services have supported critical communications needs for individuals, businesses, and the evolving Internet of Things.

At Iridium, we understand the importance of staying connected and the limitations of traditional communications networks. People across the globe, including first responders, humanitarians, global militaries, scientific researchers, and lone workers, as well as ships, aircraft and remote operations all rely on Iridium to stay connected. We take our responsibility for providing these essential communications very seriously and pride ourselves on offering a reliable lifeline when needed. Likewise, Iridium is committed to providing an exciting and innovative workplace, where employees are challenged to think outside the box and collaborate on new, bold ideas and solutions. Our talented teams are passionate about their work and the impact our company makes around the world. Iridium fosters an empowering and inclusive culture that allows employees to genuinely be their best selves. We are looking for others who want to join this truly unique company that celebrates our employees and provides the opportunity to truly make a difference in the world.

Position Summary, Job Requirements & Responsibilities

What We’re Looking For:

Iridium is seeking an Embedded Software Engineer III to join our Mobile Product Software Engineering Team! As an Embedded Software Engineer, you will be responsible for enhancing and sustaining the source code used in our mobile products and associated engineering tools. In this role, you’ll gain valuable experience working on software for Iridium’s transceivers while contributing to the development of high-quality products for our customers. If you are passionate about creating reliable and robust products, committed to the long-term success of your work, and highly self reliant, you’ll thrive in this position.

What You’ll Do:

Design and develop embedded software for microcontrollers ensuring high-quality, performance, and reliability

Implement and optimize real-time operating systems, device drivers, and communication protocols

Debug and troubleshoot reported firmware issues, ensuring timely resolution

Reproduce, isolate and debug complex low-level problems that may span between hardware and software interfaces

Integrate, build, and manage embedded software configuration

Write and maintain unit, regression and pairwise test suites for mobile product software

Create and maintain documentation, including software requirements, ICDs, test plans and procedures

Review work products created by other team members

Collaborate with software, hardware, and system development engineers

Work cross functionally to instill a strong culture of product quality within the organization

Experience & Education Requirements / EEO

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related technical field with 5+ years of relative software experience, including:

3+ years’ experience developing embedded software, preferably for microcontrollers

4+ years’ experience developing software in C; solid understanding of ANSI C, common data structures and memory management techniques

Familiarity with asynchronous event driven paradigms

Proven experience in embedded systems design with preemptive, multitasking, real-time operating systems

Excellent knowledge of OSI model, networking protocols, interfaces, and hardware subsystems

Solid understanding of communication protocols such as UART, SPI, and I2C

Adequate knowledge of reading schematics and data sheets for components

Experience with benchmarking algorithm performance on embedded systems using software and hardware techniques

Strong communication skills, with the ability to confidently present products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues

Possess an analytical mindset, with the ability to understand a situation or problem and think critically to make decisions or come up with solutions

Be comfortable managing upward, including being a proactive communicator and asking for help when needed

Have confidence and be able to establish valuable relationships with others

Must be able to prioritize key tasks and have a strong sense of ownership over your work

Be active in seeking out ways to continuously improve yourself and gain new knowledge

Things That Would be Great if You Brought to the Table:

1+ years of experience in developing ancillary tools in Python

Experience developing software for ARM M series microcontrollers

Experience using Linux command-line interfaces

Familiarity with multi-threading/multi-tasking

Familiarity with signal analysis tools such as Wireshark

Demonstrated embedded systems troubleshooting experience

1+ years of experience working with agile methods & environment using the Atlassian suite.

Demonstrated understanding of software production via continuous integration

Demonstrated understanding of best practices for software version control (Git, SVN etc)

Knowledge of RF communication systems and protocols

Working knowledge of bash, make and similar programming languages

We’ll also need you to:

Be able to travel to meetings with geographically remote teams, as needed (typically once per quarter).

Be able to work a hybrid schedule that includes at least one week in office (located in McLean, VA) and as needed.

US Citizenship required

Work Environment:

This position primarily works in an office setting and is largely sedentary with the majority of the position working with a computer. The role typically requires the use of basic office equipment such as a phone, video, computer, keyboard, mouse, and printer.

Iridium is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.