Senior Embedded Systems Architect Platform (mf)

Location Vienna

Division: R&D

Reporting Line: Head of R&D (Line Manager); SW Team Lead (Functional Lead)

About PIDSO

For over 15 years PIDSO has been developing high-performance communication solutions Made in Austria built for environments where failure is not an option.

Our antenna and RF systems enable reliable data transmission and signal processing in mission-critical applications across aerospace defense motorsport automotive and Industry 4.0.

We combine research development manufacturing and testing under one roof. Fast focused and with uncompromising attention to detail.

The Mission

We are looking for a hands-on embedded systems architect to shape reusable software platforms across our products. Our systems combine ARM processors real-time software FPGA logic signal processing and hardware developed in-house.

You should have first-hand experience taking embedded systems from prototype to released product and seen how architecture and security decisions affect integration production field operation and maintenance.

Our embedded products currently use AMD/Xilinx SoCs. Experience with this ecosystem is useful but not required; architecture judgment and comparable embedded experience matter more than familiarity with one toolchain.

You will work with embedded FPGA/DSP hardware Quality Production Operations project managers and external specialists. You will take on more of the embedded-platform architecture as you become familiar with our products and organization.

Why this role matters

You will have real technical ownership and influence how we structure secure release and maintain embedded software. The decisions you make and the software you build will affect both current products and future ones.

The work brings together embedded software FPGA/DSP electronics RF electromagnetics and antenna engineering in smart-antenna radar and communications systems. You will collaborate directly with specialists from each field.

What you will do

• Own platform decisions covering startup watchdogs diagnostics configuration update rollback recovery and lifecycle behavior.
• Translate product and stakeholder needs into clear verifiable system and platform requirements. Resolve gaps and conflicting constraints with the responsible teams and maintain traceability to architecture decisions and verification.
• Define and negotiate clear testable interfaces between software hardware programmable logic operating systems and connected tools. Make ownership versioning compatibility and failure behavior explicit.
• Evaluate processors SoCs operating systems toolchains and shared components against product and lifecycle constraints.
• Stay hands-on through implementation prototyping debugging automated tests and review of critical code.
• Apply security engineering to trust boundaries secure boot and updates recovery device identity provisioning and key-lifecycle constraints.
• Back architecture decisions with working software tests and concise decision records. Support practical improvements to reviews builds releases and configuration management.
• Lead design reviews and help engineers take ownership of platform components.
• Agree and maintain interface control documents (ICDs) and acceptance criteria across teams. Improve how technical work is handed from R&D to Production and Operations including input from quality management suppliers and project partners.

What you bring

• At least seven years of professional embedded-software development including technical ownership of a platform product architecture or critical subsystem through implementation release and maintenance.
• Hands-on ownership of a security- or lifecycle-critical embedded capability used in a real product such as secure boot authenticated updates rollback and recovery provisioning or device identity.
• Strong C and/or C experience with ARM SoCs microcontrollers bare-metal software an RTOS embedded Linux or a comparable low-level environment.
• Examples of architecture decisions you drove including trade-offs validation and lessons from failures.
• Practical experience in requirements engineering including writing and reviewing verifiable requirements and linking them to design and verification.
• Experience defining hardware/software contracts and reasoning about concurrency timing failure handling compatibility and observability.
• Experience improving development practices across design implementation review testing release and maintenance.
• Ability to make sound decisions with incomplete information and resolve technical disagreements across teams.
• Active and responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools with careful validation of results and appropriate handling of confidential or security-sensitive information.

Helpful experience

• Jama Connect or comparable requirements-management tools
• AMD/Xilinx tools and SoC security mechanisms
• FPGA/CPU integration using AXI DMA shared memory and interrupts
• FreeRTOS SafeRTOS PikeOS Zephyr QNX Yocto or comparable platforms
• HSM-backed signing PKI integration secure manufacturing device identity or provisioning
• CRA-related engineering IEC 62443 DO-178C ISO 26262 EN 50128 an EN 9100 quality system or a comparable regulated context
• reproducible builds HIL fault injection SBOMs or vulnerability response

Why join PIDSO

At PIDSO software doesnt just support the business it helps build test and deliver high-end antenna and radar technology.

Youll work close to the hardware the engineers and the products: from RF measurement systems and automated test environments to engineering tools used every day in R&D and Production.

What you can expect:

• Engineering with real-world impact your software directly supports the development and quality of our antenna radar and communication systems.
• Ownership that matters from understanding the problem to architecture implementation deployment and continuous improvement.
• Close to the technology work alongside specialists in RF DSP embedded software hardware Production and Quality.
• Complex challenges instead of generic software projects measurement systems connected hardware automation simulation and engineering workflows.
• Room to shape things PIDSO is growing and so are our software landscape processes and engineering capabilities.
• A high-tech environment with short decision paths where good ideas can quickly become working solutions.

We are building technology that has to perform when it matters!

Salary

For this position the minimum salary according to the Kollektivvertrag Metallgewerbe (Verwendungs-gruppe IV 8 years) is 4.37119 gross per month with a clear willingness to overpay based on your existing projects and technical skills.

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