As an Embedded Software Engineer, you will be a key part of the Architecture team, developing and implementing core features to enable drones to operate safely and autonomously. You will work closely with stakeholders in Germany and the US, taking an empowering role in pushing drone technology boundaries. Your day-to-day involves implementing and optimizing autopilot firmware, designing new functionalities, integrating flight control algorithms, and supporting flight tests.

Responsibilities

Implementation, maintenance, and optimization of the Quantum-Systems autopilot firmware and firmware stack
Design, Conception, implementation, and testing of new autopilot functionalities
Export of flight control and navigation algorithms from Matlab / Simulink and integration into the autopilot’s embedded framework
Implementation, maintenance, and optimization of BSP / peripheral and external sensor drivers and their optimized operation in the scope of the real-time operating system
Building, documenting, and maintaining autopilot firmware for flight tests. Creation of flight test tickets, support of flight tests, and post-flight data analysis
Creating unit tests, debugging/tracing of the code base for code coverage/functionality testing
Maintenance of the firmware update eco system, including bootloaders & firmware updates
Support in the implementation and maintenance of production tools

Requirements

You have completed a degree in the field of bachelor’s or master’s degree in software engineering / electrical engineering and you have several years of experience working with embedded systems.
You have a deep understanding of embedded systems and you are a senior in designing, implementing and optimizing embedded systems.
You have strong knowledge of microcontrollers (ARM, Cortex-M), real-time operating systems and hardware and communication interfaces interfaces (UART, I2C, SPI, CAN, ETH ...)
You are experienced with real-time operating systems like FreeRTOS or uCOS II and knowledge of multi-threading, task scheduling, and inter-task communication.
You have the ability to bridge the gap between hardware and software, understanding the electrical and physical constraints, profound understanding of electronic schematics and efficiently utilizing available hardware resources
You master version control and collaboration tools such as git and gitlab and you have experience in working in collaborative development environments with agile methodologies.
You are highly self-motivated and drive your area of responsibility independently
Due to your open, communicative, friendly, and competent attitude, it is easy for you to be considered as an internal expert
English level at least B2