Embedded Software Consulting Engineer, Protection and Control Systems
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Embedded Software & Firmware Consulting Engineer leading modernization strategies for real-time embedded systems in energy sector. Collaborating globally on product and platform designs for Transmission & Distribution (T&D).
Responsibilities:
- Serve as a technical authority for embedded platform modernization, product innovation, and next-generation system architectures.
- Lead the design strategy of real-time embedded platforms for protection and communication systems using multi-core SoCs, RTOS (VxWorks, QNX, FreeRTOS), or embedded Linux.
- Guide strategic choices in virtualized firmware stacks, embedded containers, and real-time microservices for digital substations and edge computing.
- Drive architectural modernization through the adoption of embedded virtualization using lean hypervisors, enabling reliability and modularity through microservice-oriented architecture for critical and secure field-deployable service updates.
- Guide the design of CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps workflows, and automated test frameworks tailored to embedded environments.
- Promote modular design, RTOS abstraction, software reuse, and real-time determinism across services.
- Lead edge software strategies for AI/ML-based diagnostics, adaptive protection, and predictive maintenance, enabling microservices to run securely in real-time containers.
- Stay at the forefront of innovations in lean, reliable, and secure mission-critical/safety-critical embedded systems by participating in technical conferences and engaging with industry consortia and standards bodies (IEC, IEEE, UCAIug).
- Represent the organization in global forums, panels, or working groups and share best practices, lessons learned, and architecture evolution insights.
- Contribute to multi-year product and technology roadmaps for protection and automation portfolios.
- Evaluate and pilot emerging technologies to mentor and guide global teams on next-generation architectures.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Embedded Systems.
- Extensive experience in embedded software/firmware design, with proven experience in architecture or consulting leadership roles.
- Extensive experience in real-time embedded systems used in power system protection, automation, or communication.
- Expert in C/C++, with experience in embedded Linux, RTOS (VxWorks, QNX), and container/virtualization concepts for embedded systems.
- Proven experience integrating protocols such as GOOSE, MMS, SV, DNP3, Modbus, IEEE C37.118, IEC 60870-5-104, IEEE 1588, and secure communication protocols.
- Familiar with compliance to electrical and cybersecurity standards including IEC 60255, NERC CIP, IEC 62443, IEC 62351.
- Working knowledge of embedded hypervisors, container runtimes, and service isolation in resource-constrained environments.
- Hands-on experience with toolchains, software analyzers, and debugging across embedded and virtualized targets.
- Strong understanding of protection schemes, digital substation design, and utility communication architectures.
- Experience in secure embedded software development, formal verification, and regulatory certification.
- Active contributor to open standards or industry bodies (IEEE, IEC, UCAIug) or recognized innovator with patents or technical publications.
- Willingness to travel for technical deep-dives, customer co-innovation sessions, industry events, and global product strategy meetings.
Benefits:
- Bonus eligibility: discretionary annual bonus
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