About the Role
MSA Safety is a purpose-driven company committed to deploying innovation and technology to help protect people and assets worldwide. We are dedicated to solving our customers' greatest problems so they can go home safe every day.
Responsibilities
- Contribute hands-on to software development for industrial safety-critical products, focusing on architecture, implementation, code reviews, and technical problem-solving.
- Lead requirements decomposition, system architecture, software design, implementation, integration, and verification activities throughout the product lifecycle.
- Drive technical discussions and trade-off decisions, balancing safety, security, quality, performance, maintainability, and delivery goals.
- Own software throughout its lifecycle, including implementation, release, sustaining engineering, defect investigation, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with other departments to translate customer and business needs into robust embedded software solutions.
- Mentor and support engineers through design reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.
- Continuously improve development practices, architectures, tools, and product quality across the organization.
Requirements
- Several years of professional experience developing embedded software in C/C++.
- Experience with microcontroller-based systems.
- Solid understanding of low-level embedded concepts, including basic communication protocols, watchdogs, memory architectures, and hardware interaction.
- Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Commitment to software quality through clean coding practices and comprehensive testing.
- Experience with scripting languages to support development, testing, or automation.
- Ability to read and interpret hardware documentation, including datasheets.
- Experience with functional safety standards, such as IEC 61508 and Safety Integrity Levels (SIL).
- Collaborative, team-oriented mindset with the ability to work effectively across engineering disciplines.
- Good communication skills and fluency in English.
- Understanding of electronic circuits, schematics, and PCB layouts (Nice to Have).
- Experience supporting functional safety assessments, certification, or approval processes (Nice to Have).
- Familiarity with industrial communication networks and protocols, such as EtherCAT, EtherNet/IP, PROFINET (Nice to Have).
Skills
- C/C++
- Embedded software development
- Microcontroller-based systems
- Low-level embedded concepts
- Communication protocols
- Watchdogs
- Memory architectures
- Hardware interaction
- Debugging
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving
- Clean coding practices
- Testing
- Scripting languages
- Hardware documentation interpretation
- Functional safety standards (IEC 61508, SIL)
- Electronic circuits
- Schematics
- PCB layouts
- Industrial communication networks
- EtherCAT
- EtherNet/IP
- PROFINET
Experience Level
- Several years of professional experience
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive compensation and benefits
Benefits
- 30 days of annual vacation
- 37.5-hour working week
- Flexible working arrangements
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
About the Company
- MSA Safety is a purpose-driven company committed to deploying innovation and technology to help protect people and assets worldwide.
- We are dedicated to solving our customers' greatest problems so they can go home safe every day.
