Senior Software Developer

Job overview:
The ideal candidate is part of our software team creating world-leading next generation broadcast video processing technology including compressed video streaming.    They coordinate with the product manager on overall product vision and leads a team in the design of new products and the improvement of existing products. Our team is Agile and DevOps aligned, with a focus on continuous learning and automation. We hold backlog refinements and post-mortems, regularly tackle technical debt and reserve time for innovation. If you've ever watched live television, news, sports, or entertainment, you've seen our products in use. Major award shows, most professional sports teams, and many of the largest broadcasters in the world use Ross Video technology. Get behind the scenes and learn about what it takes to make live events possible.
 
Who you report to:  Director TPM, Edge Technologies
 
What the job is all about:

Participate in Agile FaST ceremonies like retrospectives, refinement, planning and FaST meetings
Participate in a daily sync-up meeting and work with team members afterward to resolve a blocking integration issue
Work with an FPGA designer to help debug a lab issue and create code to help gather additional telemetry and status information
Participate in a design/code review of a field system update software and provide your feedback on how to better handle a fault condition
Review test coverage strategy and provide feedback to further improve coverage or to scale back based on acceptable risk
Work with a hardware and software designer to resolve a FIFO overflow issue
Implement in C++ a driver that controls a hardware accelerator to perform color correction for high dynamic range video
Document an API to support integration with another software team
Design a thread safe register interface module for a high-speed register interface
Host a post-mortem, capture the feedback, and make plans for changes
Discuss the implementation of a new customer requested feature with the marketing team and product manager
Work with the project manager to identify key project milestones and integrations
Help maintain the Linux R&D build server and create a script to add a new feature to our build automation flow

Meet with software and RTL designers to propose a lab integration strategy
Teach a new hire how to analyze network packets with Wireshark
Perform other related duties as required

As an intermediate/senior developer, the candidate is expected to oversee the following:

Propose a vision or theme for the work cycle
Review the backlog, add stories and prioritize
Coordinate with the design team, other cross functional teams, suppliers and customers to ensure the overall design and each specified sub-system meets all requirements according to an established project plan
Provide significant technical leadership to design review preparation, execution, and timely action item closure for complex issues
Document the design to a high standard for internal and customer review
Effectively communicate technology applications and benefits to a wide audience including customers and design partners.
Coach and mentor team members to attain breakthrough results in assigned deliverables

Who you are:

Bachelors degree in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering or related discipline
Experienced with C and C++
Experience leading software and mixed discipline development teams
Experience with ARM multi-processor systems within an embedded Linux environment
Possess experience developing under Linux with GNU tool chain
Experience working with scripted tool flow (tcl, perl, sh), source control
Experience working with lab equipment to debug complex designs that could involve multiple people.
Knowledge of TCP/IP networking including familiarity with UDP, TCP, HTTP, FTP, SLP, Zeroconf.
Knowledge of software design for embedded system with a mix of application, library and driver development is an asset
Ability to resolve memory leaks and deadlocks
Knowledge of creating hardware stubs for simulated testing
Experience performing static code analysis
Knowledge of revision control systems, branching and tagging methodologies
Expertise in software debugging through JTAG interfaces and logic analyzers
Familiarity with hardware integration and lab tools

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