Field Services Engineer (Santa Barbara, CA)

Experienced engineer with outstanding technical and communication skills able to travel and work closely with key customers.

Job Description

As part of the team supporting the world's leading embedded software tools and the world's fastest growing RTOS company, you'll be expected to:

• Create and deliver training classes in the use of our technologies--including our IDE, RTOS's, BSPs, device drivers, and middleware
• Work at customer sites to quickly identify and solve problems in their applications
• Assist customers in writing new BSPs and device drivers for the INTEGRITY RTOS
• Adapt and customize our tools to integrate with our customers' design flow
• Troubleshoot and diagnose customer problems remotely
• Carry out design reviews with customers and help them improve their designs

• BSEE/BSCS (or better)
• Experience interacting with customers (pre-sales, support, etc.)
• Experience working with hardware (eg. getting code running on a bare board, or bringing up an embedded OS)
• Able to travel ~50% of the time
• Self motivated and eager to learn

• Development experience (C, C++ preferred)
• Embedded experience, including work on INTEGRITY, ThreadX, VxWorks, OSE, pSOS, embedded Linux
• Experience writing BSPs and/or device drivers for one of the above Operating Systems
• Technical teaching experience

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Job Description

Green Hills Software, Inc is a world-renowned, market leading provider of high-performance software tools for developers of embedded systems.  Green Hills produces real-time operating systems (INTEGRITY and velOSity), an integrated software development environment (MULTI), optimizing compilers, and debugging hardware for use in embedded system development.

Green Hills Software was founded in 1982, is privately held, has been profitable since its inception, and is growing at an average rate of 30% per year. Green Hills Software is now the world's #2 RTOS company. Based in Santa Barbara, California, Green Hills offers its employees challenging technical careers in one of the finest year-round climates in the world.

With about 250 employees, Green Hills Software is small enough to allow individuals to be noticed and recognized for their contributions, but big enough to be the leader in its market. 

A software engineer has complete engineering responsibility for one or more major components of the Green Hills product line. For an experienced programmer this is a satisfying position in which you have personal responsibility for creating a tool used by thousands of programmers around the world.  Our engineers are involved in Language Front Ends, Code Generators, Real Time Operating Systems, our MULTI Development Environment, our Secure Workstation, and Target Systems.

Here are the groups for which we are hiring:

• Compiler Group: Create, update, and maintain a language front end or a target architecture backend for the highly-optimizing family of Green Hills compilers. A compiler engineer might work on new language extensions, specific cutting-edge optimizations for the latest chips to hit the market, or on general optimizations that will benefit our entire product line. An ideal candidate understands low level microarchitecture designs and is comfortable working with assembly code, yet can also develop tools written in high level languages.
• MULTI Development Environment: Create, upgrade and maintain a component of the MULTI development environment, such as the debugger, the editor, the builder, the configuration manager, the profiling system, the version control system, or one of several other components yet to hit the market.
• Target Connections Group: Connect and extend the MULTI debugger to whatever our customers are building, so they can download and debug their code on their hardware.  Working closely with the Hardware Products group, we build the highest performance debug probes supporting the broadest range of target CPUs. Members of this group are embedded programmers who use C and VHDL, but are also comfortable with extending our MULTI IDE to support new debugging concepts.  Hardware experience and knowledge are welcome, but not necessary.
• INTEGRITY Real-time Operating System: Create, upgrade and maintain components of the INTEGRITY memory protected real-time operating system, such as device drivers, board support packages, networking stacks, other native application code, ports of third-party application code, or even the kernel itself. You will have the opportunity to work on one of the fastest growing products in the embedded industry, as well as the opportunity to make INTEGRITY work with bleeding-edge hardware. Projects in this area require familiarity with interfacing directly to hardware and with multi-threaded programming.

Requirements and Qualifications

• Strong programming skills in C/C++ required
• Must be working toward or possess a BS/MS (CS, ECE, Math) or have 5+ yrs experience in the embedded software industry
• A GPA of 3.25 or greater is required
• Should feel comfortable with the idea of personally creating a fairly complex 25,000 line application in about a year
• Must be willing and able to work independently and with little supervision
• Should be innovative and passionate about coding
• Should be excited to take on new challenges
  

Annual Salary Range

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How to Apply

Qualified candidates are encouraged to send a resume and salary history to:

 jobs@ghs.com Reference: GHS SDE
 Recruiting Manager
 Green Hills Software, Inc.
 30 W. Sola Street
 Santa Barbara, CA 93101

No phone calls, please.

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Job Description

We seek an experienced software engineer to test Green Hills Software’s Real Time Operating System and the suite of embedded development tools. As an Embedded Solutions Tester you will be given the sole responsibility for assessing and ensuring that key components in our products meet our high quality standards. If you are bothered by most software being buggy and want to do something about it, this is the job for you!

Requirements:

• An understanding of compilers, assemblers, linkers and debuggers and their role in developing embedded software
• An understanding of the concepts of real time operating systems
• At least 2 years of programming experience in high level languages, C and C++
• Experience with UNIX and with scripting languages, python, perl and shell
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Ability to learn and understand how complex software systems work
  

Helpful Skills/Experience:

• Observant and attentive to details
• Enjoys the challenge of finding bugs / breaking the product
• Curious about how things work
• Interested in learning new technologies
• Keen eye for odd behavior
• Ability to balance technical skills in understanding the nature of a problem, with a global sense
  for how it would affect the users
• Ability to remember and reproduce a complex set of steps when identifying a problem
• Great communication and organization skills
• Ability to adapt to changing schedule
• Embedded system and real time operating systems experience a plus

Duties:

• Assessing and ensuring the high quality standards for our products
• Writing new tests and ensuring that a product or a component is adequately validated
• Making recommendations for product improvements, both in terms of reliability and usability
• Creating functionality, coverage, regressions, stress, and real-world example tests
• Writing embedded applications the way our users would
• Automating manual tests for greater coverage and efficiency
• Configuring and setting up hardware for embedded debugging
• Keeping abreast of our technology, gaining an understanding of how to use new tools, and understanding their impact on the overall development environment 

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