Senior Embedded Software Developer

What you get to do:

• Join a tech company that makes solutions and products that directly protect and save lives of firefighters and industrial workers around the world everyday, as well as the environment.
• Apply your technical capabilities and ability to influence direction and decision-making as you work with a variety of technology stacks and product types with highly engaged team members with different skillsets, backgrounds and roles.

• Firefighter equipment, gas detectors and industrial worker gear with various sensor technologies (e.g. thermal imaging, environmental sensing, location, infrared/lasers).
• IoT style ecosystem of physical/digital products with wireless and wired connectivity (e.g. AWS, cellular, GNSS, BLE).
• Safety critical software (SIL, security).

• Own features, own quality of delivery, own the translation of the "why" behind internal/external customer needs into elegant, robust, timely technical implementations.
• Propel your craft and your career forward as you take advantage of opportunities to "make things better" for our products, our people, our communities.
• Enjoy one of Europe's most livable cities with a multitude of opportunities for indoor/outdoor activities, education, food, sports and culture (Berlin, Germany) and the benefits of being part of a global team (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)., + Take various stakeholder input and create or update the architecture or design to efficiently fulfill those needs.

• Own the architecture or design, teach/communicate it to development team, maintain it through selective changes.
• Identify and mitigate risks throughout development and testing of the embedded system/software.
• Guide a team through solution development.

• Hands-on experience applying modern software development and quality techniques with embedded C/C++ and common peripheral interfaces.

Are you someone who is passionate, motivated, and driven to make a difference? If so, MSA Safety is the perfect fit for your career., * Your mindset is one of personal, team and company growth.

• You embrace complex challenges and drive towards timely resolution that fit the setting, circumstance and people involved.
• You want your work to be meaningful and you want to launch awesome products.
• You're not bothered by different perspectives or approaches and take it as part of shared innovation and creativity fueling the best technical solutions within the given context and bigger picture.
• Working with sophisticated technologies and tools and influencing/enabling team success motivates you.
• You don't mind taking time to share your decision making process and other nuances of embedded systems/software work with junior engineers or others unfamiliar with software.
• You want the excitement of tech, but with stability, work/life balance and in-person interaction.

Special Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Strong proficiency in real-time embedded system and software design/implementation.
• Skilled in distilling deeply technical information down to its essence and packaging to gain buy-in for project or design direction (written and verbal).
• Adaptable mindset that thrives within business, project or technology ambiguity or constraints.

• Agility and creativity in the face of complex challenges to quickly get to best result for the product, for the team, for the company.

• Track record of delivering solutions that work and influencing the entire development process., * Strong proficiency in technical areas related to networking layers, wired and wireless communication protocols.
• Skills with rapid prototyping, software design patterns, CMake, CI, various software development tools.

Education and Experience Required:

• BSCE, BSEE or relevant technical discipline, preferably from an ABET or similarly accredited program.

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