Senior Firmware Engineer
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An Amazing Career Opportunity for SeniorFirmware Engineer
Location: Durban South Africa
Job ID: 32656
Profile Summary:
At HID as part of the Physical Access Control Systems business unit we produce cutting edge security products. The PACS business is highly visible and one of our most significant portfolios within HID Global. The PACS products include smart cards mobile access and identifications software services and controllers for physical access control.
You would be joining as a firmware engineer where you will get to work with the teams in a Scaled Agile environment. The primary focus of this role is development of the Biometrics product line. You will be working in an embedded Linux environment implementing secure and performant applications.
Who are we
HID powers the trusted identities of the worlds people places and things allowing people to transact safely work productively and travel freely.
We are a hightech software company headquartered in Austin TX with over 4000 worldwide employees.
Check us out: and is an Innovative HighTech Security Company!
At HID you will work as part of a team to deliver high quality features and products to our customers. You will be involved in secure software development and have input on how best to achieve our goals.
Physical Access Control Solutions(PACS)
HIDs Physical Access Control SolutionsBusiness Area:
HID PACs Business Unit focuses on the growth of new clients and existing clients where we leverage the latest card and reader technologies to solve the security challenges of our clients. Other areas of focus will include authentication card sub systems card encoding Biometrics location services and all other aspects of a physical access control infrastructure.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Collaborating with other teams to ensure successful delivery of products.
- Participate in security reviews with the team helping to identify problem areas.
- Assist in finding solutions to the identified problems.
- Participate in preparing reviewing and completing project documentation.
- Writing good maintainable code.
- Work on setting up and maintaining devops pipelines.
- Help with identifying and rectifying security related issues.
Desired Skills & Experience
- Legally eligible to work in South Africa.
- Strong communication skills in English.
- BSc in Electronic Engineering or equivalent.
- 5 years of practical engineering.
- Expert in C/C not just able to write code but able to write performant maintainable code.
- Proficient in developing within an embedded Linux environment.
- Familiarity with virtualization technologies such as docker.
- Ability to analyze a problem and determine the best steps to solve it.
- Ability to participate in the design process providing insight and guidance.
- Comfortable working with incircuit emulators GNU toolchains gdb and cmake.
- Strict attention to detail.
- Experience with distributed embedded systems.
- Familiarity with Git and Git workflows.
- Dedicated to learning and continuous growth.
- Capable of taking a task assigned to you and demonstrating steady progress realizing when you are going to be blocked and reaching out early.
- Able to identify unknowns in assigned tasks and go through the discovery process.
Preference will be given to candidates with the following:
- Familiarity with Yocto/Openembedded Linux will be a big benefit.
- Experience with Secure Software Development Lifecycles.
- Experience Cryptographic Standards.
- Experience with QA processes.
- Familiarity with cyber security related tools and testing methodologies.
- SAFe or Agile experience.
- Experience with gitflow.
- Experience with DevSecOps and tools like Snyk and Zaproxy
Why apply
- Empowerment: Youll work as part of a global team in a flexible workenvironment learning and enhancing your expertise. We welcome an opportunity to meet you and learn about your unique talents skills and experiences. You dont need to check all the you have most of the skills and experience we want you to apply.
- Innovation: You embrace challenges and want to drive change. We are open to ideas including flexible work arrangements job sharing or parttime job seekers.
- Integrity: You are resultsorientated reliable and straightforward and value being treated accordingly. We want all our employees to be themselves to feel appreciated and accepted.
This opportunity may be open to flexible working arrangements.
HID is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.
We make it easier for people to get where they want to go!
On an average day think of how many times you tap twist tag push or swipe to get access find information connect with others or track something. HID technology is behind billions of interactions in more than 100 countries. We help you create a verified trusted identity that can get you where you need to go without having to think about it.
When you join our HID team youll also be part of the ASSA ABLOY Group the global leader in access solutions. Youll have 61000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions supporting them with regular feedback training and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact and we encourage them to grow their role locally regionally or even internationally. As we welcome new people on board its important to us to have diverse inclusive teams and we value different perspectives and experiences.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
