About the Role
MSA Safety is a purpose-driven company committed to deploying innovation and technology to protect people and assets worldwide. We are seeking individuals passionate about solving customer problems so they can go home safe.
Responsibilities
- Join a tech company that makes solutions and products that directly protect and save lives of firefighters and industrial workers around the world everyday, as well as the environment.
- Apply technical capabilities and influence direction and decision-making while working with various technology stacks and product types with highly engaged team members.
- Work with firefighter equipment, gas detectors, and industrial worker gear with various sensor technologies (e.g., thermal imaging, environmental sensing, location, infrared/lasers).
- Engage with an IoT ecosystem of physical/digital products with wireless and wired connectivity (e.g., AWS, cellular, GNSS, BLE).
- Develop safety-critical software (SIL, security).
- Own features, quality of delivery, and the translation of customer needs into elegant, robust, timely technical implementations.
- Propel your craft and career forward by taking advantage of opportunities to improve products, people, and communities.
- Enjoy opportunities in Berlin, Germany, and the benefits of being part of a global team with headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Requirements
- Possess a mindset of personal, team, and company growth.
- Embrace complex challenges and drive towards timely resolution.
- Desire to do meaningful work and launch awesome products.
- Openness to different perspectives and approaches as part of shared innovation.
- Motivated by working with sophisticated technologies and tools, and influencing team success.
- Willingness to share decision-making processes and nuances of embedded systems/software work with junior engineers.
- Desire for the excitement of tech combined with stability, work/life balance, and in-person interaction.
- Strong proficiency in real-time embedded system and software design/implementation.
- Skilled in distilling deeply technical information and packaging it to gain buy-in for project or design direction (written and verbal).
- Adaptable mindset that thrives within business, project, or technology ambiguity or constraints.
- Agility and creativity in the face of complex challenges to achieve the best results.
- Track record of delivering functional solutions and influencing the development process.
- Ability to take stakeholder input and create or update architecture/design to fulfill needs efficiently.
- Own, teach, communicate, and maintain architecture or design through selective changes.
- Identify and mitigate risks throughout development and testing of embedded systems/software.
- Guide a team through solution development.
- Hands-on experience applying modern software development and quality techniques with embedded C/C++ and common peripheral interfaces.
- Proficiency in technical areas related to networking layers, wired and wireless communication protocols.
- Skills with rapid prototyping, software design patterns, CMake, CI, and various software development tools.
Skills
- Embedded C/C++
- Real-time embedded system design
- Real-time embedded software design
- Real-time embedded system implementation
- Real-time embedded software implementation
- Technical communication (written)
- Technical communication (verbal)
- Architecture design
- Software design
- Risk mitigation
- Embedded systems development
- Embedded software development
- Networking layers
- Wired communication protocols
- Wireless communication protocols
- Rapid prototyping
- Software design patterns
- CMake
- CI (Continuous Integration)
- Software development tools
Location
- Berlin, Germany
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Education Level
- BSCE
- BSEE
- Relevant technical discipline
About the Company
- MSA Safety is a purpose-driven company committed to deploying innovation and technology to help protect people and assets all around the world.
- We are relentless in our pursuit of solving our customers greatest problems so they can go home safe each and every day.
