Software Embedded Engineer

Business Unit:
Cubic Defense

Company Details:
When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.

Job Details:
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

- Analyses functional requirements.
- Understands and works with peripheral elements of assigned software work products (run time environments, databases, networks).
- Performs software testing.
- Applies and maintains quality standards.
- Assesses severity of problems, determines corrective action, resolves technical problems, and performs fault isolation and implements solutions.
- Assists in specification preparation and the assessment of products.
- Assists in the writing of reports, manuals and procedures.
- Provides inputs to formal software project estimation.
- Designs and implements high quality, robust, functional software.
- Applies a test-driven approach to software design and development through implementing unit, integration and end-to-end system tests.
- Maintains and improves development, test, and deployment environments, Participates in defect and enhancement management processes.
- Participates in design reviews and executes changes under direction of a technical lead.
- Collaborates with peers and technical lead to develop design and feature changes.
- Maintains awareness of delivery schedules and quality criteria.
- Monitors project status and progress. Manage time to effectively to ensure that work is completed efficiently.
- Keeps abreast of improvements in programming techniques.
- Engages in continuous self-improvement of technical skills and improvements in programming techniques and toolsets.
- Recommends value added changes to existing coding practices, standards and tools.
- Shows commitment to company values, ethics, safety, security, labor charging, and quality.

Minimum Job Requirements:
Qualifications

Essential:

- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Engineering (Electrical, Electronic, Software or similar), Computer Science or related discipline

Skills/Experience/Knowledge:
Essential:

- At least 2 years proven experience developing and maintaining software systems
- Effectively use a scripting language (Python, Ruby, Shell etc) to automate repetitive engineering tasks;
- Revise design decisions to meet changing requirements;
- Liaise with customers and suppliers on an ad-hoc basis as and when required by the project.
- Work well in a team environment, relating to a range of different personality types.
- Produce effective written and oral communication.
- Knowledge and experience of writing and maintaining code in C for ARM, 8051, AVR or similar microcontroller families.
- Configure software projects using common build systems (Make, CMake etc) ideally for multiple build environments (Windows, Linux).
- Design and implement portable and testable software for a microcontroller (bare-metal and RTOS supported) on a custom PCB (Bootloaders, Applications, HAL, drivers etc).
- Develop code from datasheets and schematics prior to receiving physical hardware.
- Knowledge of electronic schematics and ability to debug design and assembly faults during prototyping.
- Knowledge of and familiarity with hardware test equipment including, but not limited to, JTAG, oscilloscopes, multi-meters and bench power supplies.
- Knowledge of SCM tools (i.e Git).

Advantageous:
What’s in it for you?
- Competitive Base Salary
- Life and Income Protection Insurance
- Medical Insurance

Condition of Employment:
Successful outcome of a National Police Check

Must have working rights in NZ

Worker Type:
Employee