Embedded Software Engineer at Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

About the job: 

• The CSIR has a vacancy for an Embedded Software Engineer in the Radar and Electronic Warfare Impact Area within the Defence and Security Cluster.
• The incumbent will be responsible to design and develop software applications, tools, modules, libraries and sub-systems for use in the Integrated Radar Software Solutions Research Group.
• This role will play a vital part in high-impact projects from advanced land and naval surveillance radar sensors to SAR sensing systems in UAV, and spaceborne platforms.
• This position is based in Pretoria and will report to the Research Group Leader.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop cutting edge real-time software;
• Push the boundaries of current technology in processing throughput;
• Collaborate within a multi-disciplinary team to design, develop, and implement breakthrough radar technologies in South Africa, set for successful deployment within the global defence market;
• Develop high-performance systems that challenge the limits of radar and system design;
• Engineer groundbreaking solutions at the heart of next-generation radar systems.

Qualifications, skills and experience:

• A Bachelor of Engineering degree in electronic or computer engineering with at least three years' experience embedded software engineering; OR
• A Master's degree in electronic or computer engineering with at least one year experience;

Experience in the following is required:

• Digital signal processing or sensing systems;
• High-speed data handling
• C++ (preferably, otherwise C or C#) for resource-constrained environments, and/ Python;
• Data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and code optimization;
• GIT Version Control and CI/CD tools;
• Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) like FreeRTOS, VxWorks, or QNX, as well as Embedded Linux;
• Use of JTAG debuggers, oscilloscopes, and logic analysers to troubleshoot hardware-software interactions
• Understanding of how networks work.
• Understanding of communication protocols (SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet, PCIe, ETC.)
• Modern C++ standards and libraries;
• Object-oriented programming;
• GPGPU programming (CUDA);
• Control system development;
• Data acquisition;
• Radar, Communications or Electronic Warfare signal processing 
• UI/UX development (e.g. in Qt);
• Embedded systems;
• Managing high-rate data streams and Direct Memory Access (DMA)
• Production software environments;
• End-to-end lifecycle of software development.
• High ownership and autonomy across the end-to-end lifecycle of software development.
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases.
• Experience in the following will be advantageous;