Senior/Principal I Embedded Software Engineer, Connected Work

US-PA-Cranberry Township

US

Req #: 9227
Type: Full-Time
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				Overview:

Are you someone who is passionate, motivated, and driven to make a difference?  If so, MSA Safety is the perfect fit for your career.  

At MSA, SAFETY is who we are AND it is what we do.  We are a purpose-driven company committed to deploying innovation and technology to deliver on our Mission to help protect people and assets all around the world.  We continue to be relentless in our pursuit of solving our customers greatest problems so they can go home safe each and every day.  

Are you in?  Read on for more details about this particular role.

Responsibilities:

What you get to do:

* Join a tech company that makes solutions and products that directly protect and save lives of firefighters and industrial workers around the world everyday, as well as the environment
* Apply your technical capabilities and ability to influence direction and decision-making as you work with a variety of technology stacks and product types with highly engaged team members with different skillsets, backgrounds, roles
* Gas detectors and industrial worker gear with various sensor technologies (e.g. thermal imaging, environmental sensing, location, infrared/lasers)
* IoT style ecosystem of physical/digital products with wireless connectivity (e.g. AWS, cellular, GNSS, BLE)
* Safety related software within our Connected Work business unit

* Own features, own quality of delivery, own the translation of the "why" behind internal/external customer needs into elegant, robust, timely technical implementations
* Propel your craft and your career forward as you take advantage of opportunities to "make things better" for our products, our people, our communities

About you:

* Your mindset is one of personal, team and company growth
* You embrace complex challenges and drive towards timely resolution that fit the setting, circumstance and people involved 
* You want your work to be meaningful and you want to launch awesome products
* You're not bothered by different perspectives or approaches and take it as part of shared innovation and creativity fueling the best technical solutions within the given context and bigger picture 
* Working with sophisticated technologies and tools and influencing/enabling team success motivates you
* You don't mind taking time to share your decision making process and other nuances of embedded systems/software work with junior engineers or others unfamiliar with software
* You want the excitement of tech, but with stability, work/life balance and in-person interaction

Qualifications:

Special Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

* Strong proficiency in embedded system and software design/implementation/quality approaches
* Including in areas related to physical devices integrating into cloud services

* Skilled in distilling deeply technical information down to its essence and packaging to gain buy-in for project or design direction (written and verbal)
* Adaptable mindset that thrives within business, project or technology ambiguity or constraints
* Agility and creativity in the face of complex challenges to quickly get to best result for the product, for the team, for the company

* Track record of delivering solutions that work and influencing the entire development process
* Take various stakeholder input and create or update the architecture or design to efficiently fulfill those needs
* Own the architecture or design, teach/communicate it to development teams, maintain it through selective changes
* Identify and mitigate risks throughout development and testing of the embedded system/software

* Hands-on experience applying modern software development and quality techniques with embedded C/C++, including tooling and automation

Preferred:

* Proven capability to provide technical direction/leadership within a software team
* Ability to understand and analyze both software and hardware design concepts/technical documentation
* Proven ability to learn new and emerging technologies, quickly becoming subject matter expert
* Including in areas related to physical devices integrating into cloud services

Education and Experience Required:

* BSCE, BSEE or relevant technical discipline, preferably from an ABET or similarly accredited program
* This position is available at two different career levels based upon experience, education, etc.:
Level one (Sr. Staff Engineer):  5 years relevant experience

Level two (Principal Engineer I): 7 years relevant experience

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