Senior Embedded Software Designer

  • Ottawa
  • Lumentum

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Lumentum Canada was awarded the 2022 National Capital Region’s Top Employers for the 6th consecutive year and the 2022 Career Directory Canada’s Best Employers for Recent Graduates for the 5th consecutive year.

Lumentum is looking for a Senior Embedded Software Designer to play a leading role in developing embedded software for optical communications products.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work with multidisciplinary teams to define new product requirements.
  • Document and review requirements and designs with peers and stakeholders.
  • Develop and maintain embedded software for optical communications products.
  • Document, review, and execute designer test cases.
  • Provide support throughout the software and product verification cycle.
  • Troubleshoot low-level software issues.
  • Participate in code inspections.
  • Provide guidance and share technical expertise with more junior software team members.

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
  • Software-inclined candidates from other Engineering and Science disciplines will also be considered.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of embedded C/C++ development experience.
  • Solid understanding of multi-threaded software design.
  • Team player with strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and debugging skills.
  • Source code control (Git, Subversion).

Assets

  • Knowledge of optical telecommunications (DWDM/Optical Amplifiers/ROADMs).
  • Linux, SYSBIOS, FreeRTOS, or other embedded OS software development.
  • Understanding of hardware devices such as ADCs/DACs/Clocks/UART/FPGAs.
  • Low-level software development (Endianness/Bit Masking/Mutual Exclusion).
  • Experience with interfacing to embedded devices via interfaces such as I2C, SPI, dual port RAM, RS-232.
  • Cross-compiling/remote debugging.
  • JTAG debugging.
  • Ability to use a schematic to understand how electronic devices are connected.