Principal Embedded Developer

How you’ll make an impact:

• Take ownership of technical architecture, identify and contribute to the team’s technical strategy and roadmap, and execute to improve products, infrastructure, and processes.
• Develop an in-depth understanding of the GO device application and functionality and how key firmware modules work.
• Develop a system level knowledge of the end-to-end impact of GO firmware and device data on the customers experience.
• Contributes to defining strategic direction, planning the roadmap, and synthesizing feedback to ensure team success.
• Break down large engineering efforts into smaller pieces that can be completed in parallel in collaboration with the team. 
• Help debug high impact firmware issues and identify areas for code improvements.
• Mentor other developers in the team and work with the team supervisor to set the direction of the team and guide key stakeholders on execution choices and trade-offs, and advise management with insights and recommendations to improve the team.
• Become a peer to others across the department and drive inter-department technical engineering initiatives that improve product, infrastructure, and processes. 
• Keep up-to-date documentation for all areas of responsibility and share technical knowledge to large groups, stay well-informed of the industry state-of-the-art, and bring ideas of new technologies/techniques/practices to the teams.
• Demonstrate Geotab’s core values and culture through collaboration across teams, encouraging recognition and engagement initiatives, attending company events, and demonstrating thought leadership in areas of expertise.

What you’ll bring to this role:

• Post-secondary Diploma/Degree with specialization in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• 12+ years experience in embedded systems design with preemptive, multitasking, multithreaded concurrent real-time operating systems.
• Experience with RTOS and Linux. 
• Strong knowledge of programming languages, development experience in C a must.
• Several years of experience in a POSIX environment in an embedded software context. 
• Experience with Agile/SCRUM.
• Experience and understanding of underlying electronics to the point where it influences firmware development and debugging.
• Familiarity with data structures, algorithms, and design patterns common to embedded (resource-constrained) systems development.
• Able to research and solve open-ended design problems.