Systems Software Engineer

South Africa·Cape Townmid

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Key Responsibilities

System Software Development on an Edge Platform Design and implement system-level software on a powerful edge platform running on a real-time operating system, such as: QNX or VxWorks.

Requirements Summary

Bachelor Honors Degree or Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or a closely related field Minimum years of work experience: 0-2 years of relevant experience.

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Simera Sense is a leading provider of Earth observation camera solutions for the global small satellite market. Committed to excellence and innovation, we deliver superior products and services to our worldwide customer base.

Are you passionate about developing high-performance software that powers cutting-edge technology? We are seeking a Systems Software Engineer to design, develop, and optimise robust software solutions for advanced engineering and mission-critical systems. If you enjoy solving complex technical challenges, collaborating across multidisciplinary teams, and delivering reliable, scalable software, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

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→Design and implement system-level software on a powerful edge platform running on a real-time operating system, such as: QNX or VxWorks.
→Work close to the OS: processes, threads, memory, filesystems, networking and security.
→Implement operating system device drivers for on-chip devices as well as proprietary and standard on-board devices.
→Develop boot software on a development kit and later for proprietary hardware using the same SoC.
→Secure remote update of the operating system and proprietary services.
→Debug and optimize performance, resource usage, and reliability.
→Communicate with a central cloud-based system.
→Build tools and services that run reliably in production environments.

Design and implement concurrent and parallel software.
Reason about synchronization, race conditions, deadlocks, and consistency.
Build distributed components that tolerate partial failure, latency and partition.
Apply formal reasoning to state machines and protocol design.

Develop software that communicates over unreliable, high-latency and intermittent networks.
Implement end-to-end cryptographic communication security.
Design and implement robust communication protocols and data pipelines.
Apply networking fundamentals to system design and troubleshooting.