AddressThe Opportunity
Boeing Defence Australia (BDA) provides people, expertise, process and tools to manage aircraft design, repair and continuing airworthiness capabilities supporting program execution and growth opportunities. Forward looking, the Engineering function has developed a Capability Plan to enable the Engineering workforce to meet our defence customers' evolving needs, both in Australia and internationally.
BDA is looking for several Embedded Linux Software Engineer who has a deep understanding of operating system technologies, kernel internals, and modern processor architectures. As part of the development team, you will work to deliver safety-critical kernels for use across The Boeing Company's entire product portfolio.
This position requires the candidate to have a full-stack mindset and be involved in continuous improvement of the software development environment and tools utilised by the kernel development team.
This role is based in Brisbane, Adelaide, Newcastle or Melbourne.
About you
To be successful in this role you will be able to convey their knowledge and experience in the general, technical and behavioural competencies listed above with the most desirable experience being:
- Develops, documents and maintains reusable architectures, requirements, algorithms, interfaces and designs for kernel software.
- Serves as a subject matter expert for kernel internals, system-specific issues, and processes and regulations.
- Creates and organises a well-defined, estimated and prioritised set of initiatives, epics and stories to maintain a robust backlog for time-phasing and planning.
- Participates in daily scrums, using agile practices, to communicate clearly and openly on incremental progress and to inform the team of any help needed on impediments and roadblocks and suggest timely remedies for common ailments during retrospectives.
- 1+ years of Linux operating systems
- 1+ years of experience with C++, C, C#
- Real-time software development experience
- Experience with modern processor architectures
- Participation in total software development lifecycle
- Experience with UNIX systems
- Development in Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Deployment (CD) pipelines
- Creation of hermetic builds
- Configuration management of diverse systems
- Safety-Critical / FAA software certification experience
- Experience with Product-Line Engineering
- Experience with Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS)
- Contributions to open source projects
- Member of an Agile development team
- Experience building Linux kernel from source
- Experience building a custom Linux distribution using yocto
Applicants must be Australian Citizens to meet Defence security requirements.
What's on offer?
Boeing values the health and wellbeing of our employees and offer true flexibility including working from home, compressed work weeks, and opportunities for part time arrangements, allowing you to balance your career with what is important to you outside of work.
Other benefits:
- Work on cutting edge projects with opportunities to work across platforms.
- Attractive remuneration and annual bonus.
- Formal mentoring and training as well as on the job learning.
- Formal reward and recognition program.
- Access discounts for health insurance, travel and accommodation.
- Paid study leave, paid parental leave and Defence leave.
- Salary packaging options available.
- Health and wellbeing benefits including annual flu vaccinations and Employee Assistance Program.
- Social and community groups.
BDA works with strong links with our global Boeing community and we strongly encourage collaboration with our international counterparts.
We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. Female applicants, people of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island descent and veterans are encouraged to apply.
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