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Lead Embedded Engineer
Join a team recognized for leadership, innovation and diversity.
Exciting opportunity in Aero Tools Team !!
The position is for Lead Embedded Engineer with following primary responsibilities in Tools team:
Be a lead embedded engineer responsible for software/firmware requirements, architecture, design, coding for processor simulations like QEMU/Windriver and related simulator/emulator tools. Provide technical support for the development and qualification of the simulation tool across programs. Engages with engineering partners and actively contributes to growth and innovation.
Be part of a global team that designs, develops and integrates highly complex solutions within Honeywell Aerospace - Product Acceleration/Engineering tools. You will be instrumental in designing, planning and coordinating work teams, as well as providing technical support. Utilize software expertise and scientific knowledge on software design and architecture to lead development activities.
Drive growth as a technology leader and interface with internal and external customers and partners. Engages with engineering partners and actively contributes to business growth. Devises sustainable growth, competitive and differentiation strategies and promotes innovation across teams. Conceptualize, design, plans and implement innovative technologies that enable new and competitive products, derives process improvements. Accountable for estimates, works with technical teams to guide and resolve technical risks and assumptions, drive to realize opportunities, and arrive at efficient estimates.
Actively engages with key stakeholders and cross functional teams to achieve business objectives. A change agent and a practitioner of organizational initiatives. Works with product engineering managers in US and HTS, to help build technical capabilities in the team with hands on experiences, prototyping on ideas and industry technologies. Mentoring and upskilling the team for the product development and towards technology advancements from the industry.
Drive the product mindset in team, inspire junior engineers. Work towards realizing the STRAP priorities and realizing the same in the STRAP period. Anticipates industry trends and actively networks with Industry bodies and associations. Contributes to enhancing Honeywell's sustainable competitive advantage. Leads teams through application of profound or broad product /technical know-how within or across job areas, is cognizant of the latest technology trends in the business.
Job Skills:
- Proficient in object-oriented programming languages such as C/C++
- Strong grasp of low-level programming languages like C and Assembly.
- Solid understanding of operating systems concepts, including process management, memory management, file systems, and inter-process communication.
- Proficiency in system-level programming, encompassing system calls, interrupts, and interaction with low-level hardware interfaces.
- Good understanding of MPSoC or any other SoC architecture.
- Proven experience on porting Linux/RTOS on MPSoC or any other SoC.
- Good understanding of CPU architecture on ARM processor
- Good knowledge on CPU buses/devices such as PCI bus/Ethernet/GPIO
- Good experience on QEMU development and KVM virtualization
- Knowledge in tools like GDB, Trace32, Lauterbach and kernel-specific debugging tools
- Experienced in managing stakeholders and demonstrate ability to identify and propose technical improvements using engineering expertise
- Knowledge of any Configuration Management System such as DOORS, BitBucket, SVN etc
- Familiarity with DO178B/C and DO-330 standards is an added advantage.
- Working knowledge of software development environments such as VS IDE, Eclipse etc.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities:
- Jointly own the processor simulator/ emulator Strategy and devise roadmap for the same.
- Proficient in comprehending product requirements and understanding usage scenarios.
- Demonstrates self-learning capabilities and easily adapts to project dynamics with flexibility.
- Takes ownership of reported software/tool issues, enhancing them with new features or implementing additional requirements.
- Owns design discussions, offering design alternatives and solutions to resolve issues.
- Provides support to users in understanding tool usage and ensures continuous innovation for tool growth.
- Proactively identifies and addresses potential issues that may affect project timelines, offering feasible solutions.
- Engages with partners to resolve technical issues and ensures smooth collaboration.
- Create Competitive Intelligence information, identify the gaps and work towards creating new products / features to make Honeywell offerings competitive.
- Manage common processes and best practices - Exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria within a related function/field. Generate, evaluate, select and implement solutions which are equal to the industry’s state of the art.
Qualifications
QUALIFICATION: B.E/B.Tech/M.E/M.Tech/M.S
EXPERIENCE: 14+ years
ESSENTIAL SKILLS: C, Assembly. C++ /VC++, Embedded development, device drivers.
Skills Required
- B.E., B.Tech., M.E., M.Tech., or M.S. degree
- 14+ years of professional experience
- Proficiency in C
- Proficiency in Assembly
- Experience with C++ or VC++
- Embedded development experience
- Device driver development experience
- Experience with Linux or RTOS porting on MPSoC or SoC platforms
- Knowledge of ARM CPU architecture and CPU buses or devices such as PCI, Ethernet, and GPIO
- Experience with QEMU development and KVM virtualization
- Knowledge of GDB, Trace32, Lauterbach, or kernel debugging tools
- Stakeholder management and technical improvement experience
- Knowledge of a configuration management system such as DOORS, BitBucket, or SVN
- Familiarity with DO-178B/C and DO-330 standards
- Working knowledge of Visual Studio or Eclipse
The Aerospace Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about The Aerospace Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by The Aerospace Corporation.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) plan provides a company‑paid contribution of 8–12% based on years of service with immediate eligibility and vesting, and eligible employees can access retiree medical benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off includes 15 vacation days (rising to 20 after five years), nine paid holidays, and unlimited sick time for exempt employees with accruals for non‑exempt staff.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible work models include a 9/80 schedule with alternating Fridays off, supported by backup care services, an EAP, relocation assistance, and home‑office stipends where applicable.
The Aerospace Corporation Insights
What We Do
The space enterprise has been transformed by rapid change and growth. New vehicles for national security space, a more rapid launch cadence, proliferated satellite constellations, the pursuit of interplanetary exploration, and thriving commercial ventures are changing the nature of the space industry. The Aerospace Corporation (Aerospace) is a leading architect for U.S. space programs, shaping efforts to outpace threats to our national security while cultivating the technologies needed to further this new era of space commercialization and exploration. Aerospace works across the space enterprise in service of the public interest. In addition to supporting the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community, our customers include NASA, NOAA, numerous federal agencies, and commercial space — all of whom benefit from our deep technical knowledge. We only pursue business related to the space mission and complementary fields, operating as the nation’s trusted partner to solve the toughest challenges and develop reliable and innovative technologies. Innovation in space occurs when people have the freedom to imagine and do. At Aerospace, we take pride in our readiness to solve some of the most complex challenges in the space enterprise.
Why Work With Us
We are a non-profit corporation chartered by the government to work on the hardest problems in space. We employ technical experts in every discipline of space-related science and engineering who touch every part of the US space program. Come join us as we make an impact bigger than ourselves.
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