Embedded Software Engineer - Advanced Navigation - Job details

Embedded Software Engineer at Advanced Navigation

Embedded Engineering, Full-Time, Perth, AU perth engineering full-time

Description

Posted 2 years ago

Advanced Navigation is one of the world’s most ambitious innovators in AI robotics and navigation technology across land, air, sea and space. While our main headquarters are in Sydney, we have multiple research facilities in Australia and sales offices around the world.

Today, Advanced Navigation is a supplier to some of the world's largest companies and helps automate some of the worlds biggest industries. Hydrus, our revolutionary underwater robot will help restore oceans to a flourishing state. You will find our navigation systems in the autonomous Indy race cars and thousands of Plus AI autonomous trucks. We help farmers adopt autonomous farming equipment and assist in various fields of research. Switching to software, our cloud-based drone management platform helps patrol beaches for emergency rescues and shark tracking. Off-planet, we will deliver a navigation system for the next NASA moon landing. The applications of our technologies are quite limitless - where there is autonomy, you will find Advanced Navigation.

Our subsea engineering team in Perth has grown rapidly over the past 12 months in order to accelerate development of our next-generation autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) platform. In this role as a Software Engineer you will be responsible for developing and advancing acoustic navigation products and our AUV platform to new capabilities and markets. You will work on cutting-edge in-house acoustics, navigation and robotics technologies to push the industry in new directions.

Role & Responsibilities

Working closely with a passionate team of engineers, developing embedded C++ multithreaded applications for embedded Linux on ARM processors

Become an expert in developing innovative surface and subsea robotics and navigation solutions

Develop computer vision capabilities on our AUV platforms

Take ownership and responsibility for a component of a project and manage deadlines and reporting for the component

Deliver quality software solutions to agreed schedules and deadlines

Be involved in the design process for future products

Qualifications

Degree qualified Engineer with specialisation in computer systems, software, mechatronics or similar

Be comfortable deep diving into technical topics and learning new skills to solve new problems

Possess strategic thinking and strong abilities to distil large amounts of information quickly and accurately

Have a collaborative and team-oriented mindset for accomplishing common goals

Have a bias-to-action and desire to make things happen

Be confident developing disruptive technologies and pushing the boundaries of what is possible

Be a passionate, hungry learner that gets excited about professional growth and being challenged by new opportunities

Experience

Have 6+ years of engineering experience with complex C/C++ software products

Have experience with embedded Linux and video for Linux

Have experience with multi-threaded application development

Real-time application development

Have experience with all stages of the product development cycle, concept development, R&D, design and planning

Have experience releasing production quality software

Experience with ROS is desirable

Experience with Linux Kernel build systems such as Yocto is desirable

Experience with subsea products or projects is desirable

Experience with Computer Vision is desirable

Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Excellent time management, driven to work quickly

Strong attention to detail

C/C++ proficiency

Be comfortable deep diving into technical topics and learning new skills to solve emerging problems

Possess strategic thinking and strong abilities to distil large amounts of information quickly and accurately

What are some of the benefits you will have access to?

Our brand new Perth Subsea research facility is world class - along with its free coffee!
With great opportunities for growth and variety, we strive to help each employee carve out the path that’s right for them. As a member of our Perth team you will have access to financial support for further education, training and conferences, paid parental leave, fortnightly team lunches and excellent end of trip facilities (showers/ bike storage etc), perfect for that pre-work beach swim.