Embedded Software Engineer

Job Description

Work location: Local candidates only- San Diego, CA

Duration: (hybrid). 12 month duration - likely to extend beyond.

Domestic travel - 10%

Job description:

This senior contractor will be a key contributor of a talented team that is responsible for development, certification and production launch of next-generation Android IP Set Top Boxes. Will be providing technical support, issue triaging and issue troubleshooting at customer lab. A qualified candidate must have at least 10 years of experience in software development on consumer electronic devices. Candidate will involve in all phases of software development life cycle but will be primarily focusing on pre-launch and post-launch customer support. Candidate is expected to have strong expertise on device driver, system integration and strong troubleshooting background. Candidate will be asked to work with SW partners, chip vendors and customers to triage issues reported in customer lab, partner lab, as well as from end users.

Required Skills

• Prior customer technical support experience


• Strong system integration background and troubleshooting experience, familiar with common troubleshooting tools and device performance analysis tools


• Solid working experience on embedded programming on Linux and Android, middleware development, device driver


• Strong knowledge on application integration, IPC and API presented to applications


• C, C++, STL and Boost in an embedded environment


• Working knowledge on Android based Set Top Box is a strong plus


• Working knowledge on WiFi and Bluetooth devices is a strong plus


• Experience using GIT, Gerrit, JIRA.

Must Have:

1. Prior Android development and integration experience


2. Solid programming experience using C/C++ and Java on electronic devices


3. Good development background and troubleshooting skills on Linux based platforms


4. Prior working experience on low level drivers § Prior customer support working experience


5. Prior experience on GIT and JIRA

Nice to Have:

• Prior Set Top Box working experience


• Prior Bluetooth device driver working experience


• Prior WiFi device driver working experience


• Prior experience on Gerrit and Jenkins