Senior Embedded Software Architect (Virtual)

• Design develop test debug and maintain software integrated into embedded devices and systems ensuring compliance with industry customer safety and regulatory standards.

• Review analyze and translate customer requirements into software product designs for embedded devices and systems.

• Build and write code for embedded systems software tailored to specific specialized hardware and applications.

• Integrate embedded software with hardware components effectively.

• Provide guidance on software and hardware integration best practices.

• Implement current and emerging technologies tools frameworks and regulatory changes relevant to software and hardware development.

• Test and debug software for embedded devices and systems to ensure functionality and reliability.

• Analyze monitor and enhance the efficiency and stability of embedded software systems.

• Integrate specific interference generators into our software environment perform multicore interference analysis and collect and analyze the results

• Build test software to test the system under various worst-case conditions collect and report on the results.

• Collect document and demonstrate compliance based on evidence from analysis

• Support and/or lead the technical planning investigation testing coaching and documentation of multicore systems.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/ Experience):

• 2 years of experience do you have developing software in a multi-threaded execution multi-core processor computing environment where the use of semaphore variables are used to control access to common resources

• 5 years of experience do you have writing embedded software within software development life-cycles

• 5 years of experience do you have in real-time near real-time or embedded systems

• 5 years of experience do you have programming in C C or C#

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology) chemistry physics mathematics data science or computer science.

• Knowledge and experience with developing software in relation to one or more of the following standards: DO-178C to at least DAL-B (DAL-A preferred) NASA-STD-5001 MIL-STD-498 MIL-STD-882 MIL-HDBK-516C.

• Experience with customized software for single board computers

• Strong understanding of embedded software e.g. bootloaders device drivers OS schedulers interrupts network protocol stack such as UDP/IP ARINC 653

• Embedded experience with board bring-up including configuring board bootloaders (e.g. U-boot) device drivers OS startup

• Arm processor assembly language

• Experience with performance tuning of high-speed I/O (e.g. PCIe Gigabit Ethernet USB)

• Strong understanding of processor and board hardware including: all elements of the memory hierarchy (cache TLB MMU paging interconnect DDR controllers and memory banks) cache coherency protocols and set-associativity Arm TrustZone System-On-Chip (SoC) PCIe Ethernet interrupts DMA

• Understanding of processor architecture including pipeline out-of-order execution branch prediction

• Hardware-based debugging (e.g. JTAG) timing measurement performance measurement

• Experience in CI/CD DevOps (GitLab preferred)

• Familiar with compiler and linker code optimization stack/heap utilization

• Expertise with virtualization e.g. Helix Virtualization Platform

• Full stack understanding of user space and kernel space

• Experience with test automation

• Experience with real-time measurements evaluation of Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET)

• Understand basics of safety-critical assurance (e.g. DO-178C or MIL-HDBK-516C) including concepts such as traceability structural coverage MC/DC Data coupling/control coupling test cases/procedures

• Experience with benchmarks (interference generators) to exercise targeted elements of the hardware including processor and board. (preferably experience writing such benchmarks)

• Experience multicore interference mitigation and verification e.g. cache coloring temporal/spatial partitioning

• Experience with multicore interference regulatory guidance (e.g. AC 20-193 CAST-32A AA 22-01)

• Experience with DO-297 IMA partitioning ARINC 653 Parts 1 and 2

• Expertise with analyzing memory hierarchy including cache organization set associativity cache coherency DDR memory banks interconnect QoS etc.

• Familiar with engineering statistics and probability

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace (DFW) where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana cocaine opioids amphetamines PCP and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

Travel:

10%

CodeVue Coding Challenge:

To be considered for this position you will be required to complete a technical assessment as part of the selection process. Failure to complete the assessment will remove you from consideration.

Pay & Benefits:

At Boeing we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.

The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs generally including health insurance flexible spending accounts health savings accounts retirement savings plans life and disability insurance programs and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.