Embedded Software Engineer - IDC MACH

Business Information: 

Hitachi Energy India Development Centre (IDC) is a research and development facility with around 500 R&D engineers, specialists, and experts, who focus on creating and sustaining digital solutions, new products and technology. This includes product integration, testing, cybersecurity, and certification.  The India Development Centre is situated in Chennai and Bangalore.  
IDC collaborates with the R&D and Research centers of Hitachi Energy, which are spread across more than 15 locations throughout 12 countries.  
In the past 20 years, IDC has secured more than 200 international papers and 150+ patents. 

Mission Statement: 

Hitachi Energy is looking to expand the R&D teams, with engineers, managers, who can take the technology to the next level. “IN-MACH”, Chennai, India is one of the R&D centers globally, for HVDC MACH Control Platform, performing Software Development, Testing and Cybersecurity activities. The below position is for the Chennai, India, location. 

Your Responsibilities: 

• Development: Develop software modules of Highest Quality, On-Time & Efficiently and maintain it continuously, with enhancements, bug fixes etc, for MACH Control System.

• Testing: Bench Testing / Unit testing for the modules developed / modified.

• Process: Follow the defined processes, throughout the development phases, in full.

• Collaborate: Collaborate with teams globally, for development and with customers, both Internal & external, professionally.

• Support: Support & work together with the team, for the developments & future support.

• Continuous improvements: Contribute towards continuous improvements, for the products & solutions under development, processes, etc.   

• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business. 

Your Background: 

• Graduate or master's degree in engineering (Computer Science, Electronics & Communication, Electrical & Electronics)

• More than 5 years of proven experience in embedded software development, with exposure to the complete software development life cycle

• Very good understanding and hands-on development of embedded technologies - digital signal processing, real time operating systems and/or multi-core systems.

• Excellent programming capabilities in C, C++

• Solid knowledge & hands on experience working with Linux.

• Debugging complex multi-threaded and event-based applications.

• Very good technical documentation skills

• Very good understanding & working with Agile / scrum process. (SAFe is an added ad-vantage).

• Experience working with virtualization technologies – Hypervisors, Containers

• Working knowledge in scripting languages like Python, shell etc.

• Working knowledge / exposure to database – SQL or others.

• Exposure to Simulation Environments developments such as Simulink or similar

• Experience working with Virtual Machines (VMs),

• Strong understanding of Configuration Management.

• Working experience in IT systems / infrastructure for the project hosting & handling, cloud is a huge advantage

• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.