Senior Software Real Time & Embedded Engineer (Open also to Protected Categories - Law 68.99)

Thales is seeking a Senior Software Real Time & Embedded Engineer to join their Agile Scrum team in Gorgonzola, Italy. This role involves defining requirements, designing SW architecture, coding, and testing embedded software for microprocessors, ensuring compliance with rigorous aerospace standards. The successful candidate will work within an international cross-functional team, contributing to avionics, navigation, and radar systems for civil air traffic and military applications.

Must Have

• Bachelor or master’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science
• At least 7-10 years of experience in Firmware Development for real time embedded systems
• Strong proficiency in C and C++ (modern standards like C++11/14/17)
• Solid know-how with embedded systems and real-time operating systems
• Experience with microcontrollers and microprocessors
• Bare-metal development capability
• Ability to translate software requirements into design specifications
• Practical experience in assisting board bring up and debug
• Knowledge of interrupt handling, bootloaders, flash operations and peripheral programming
• Ability to create modular, testable code adhering to coding guidelines and standards (e.g. MISRA)
• Ability to read and review schematics
• Knowledge of embedded system hardware peripheral blocks low-level operation
• Ability to debug hardware issues with the electronics team
• Proficiency in using design/debugging tools and instruments
• Proficient knowledge of software tools supporting IDE, version control, defect reporting and scripting
• Familiarity setting up various embedded toolchains, build, and debugging environments
• Mastery of design and testing lifecycles in regulated environments
• Ability to exercise independent judgment and define new procedures
• Proficient ability to use appropriate processes, procedures, and tools throughout the software development life cycle

Good to Have

• Customer focused, resourceful, innovative, creative
• Strong communication skills
• Analytical, resourceful and structured
• Enjoy thinking outside the box and being creative
• Great team spirit, love to take responsibilities, passion for what you do

Perks & Benefits

• Join a high-skilled multicultural team
• Opportunity to work in an Agile Scrum team of SW developers
• Be part of an international cross-functional team
• Mobility policy enabling career development at home and abroad
• Embracing flexibility in working

Location: Gorgonzola, Italy

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Gorgonzola hosts Navigations Air Systems (NAS) domain. The activity of NAS domain: avionics, navigation and radar systems for civil air traffic and technologies supporting the activities of civilian and military pilots, ATC controllers and technicians of several airlines, air traffic control agencies and Air Force around the world. Italy is the Group’s Competence center for the design, production and delivery of Navigation Aids products and Competence Centre for the delivery of non-Radar Surveillance Products.

If you are looking for new opportunities in a high-skilled multicultural team, we are now looking for a Senior Software Real Time & Embedded Engineer to join our Software team in Gorgonzola.

• You are a graduated with a bachelor or master’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science with at least 7-10 years of experience in Firmware Development for real time embedded systems. You are customer focused, resourceful, innovative, creative with a strong communication skill;
• You are analytical, resourceful and structured but you also enjoy thinking outside the box and being creative;
• You will have the opportunity to join our SW design community working in an Agile Scrum team of SW developers;
• You will be accountable for the definition of requirements, the design of SW architecture, coding and testing of embedded Software running on microprocessors mounted on our equipment. The development will be done in compliance with our rigorous aerospace standards but also tailored to our challenging schedules.
• You will be part of our international cross-functional team that includes project manager, system engineer, HW-ME designers, Project Engineering, Quality Assurance and manufacturing operations.

SKILLS:

• Strong proficiency in C and C++ (modern standards like C++11/14/17);
• Solid know-how with embedded systems and real-time operating systems (e.g. micrium, FreeRTOS, VxWorks, QNX);
• Experience with microcontrollers (e.g., ARM Cortex-M, AVR, PIC, ESP32) and microprocessors (e.g., ARM Cortex-A);
• Bare-metal development: Ability to write firmware without an operating system;
• Ability to translate software requirements into design specifications;
• Practical experience in assisting board bring up and debug using appropriate tools and techniques;
• Knowledge of interrupt handling, bootloaders, flash operations and peripheral programming;
• Able to create modular, testable code while adhering to company internal coding guidelines and applicable standards (e.g. MISRA);
• Ability to read and review schematics produced by the electronics team;
• Knowledge of embedded system hardware peripheral blocks low-level operation (such as GPIO, ADC, DAC, SPI, I2C, UART, etc);
• Able to debug hardware issues together with the electronics team (e.g. create specific software tests that will exercise certain hardware features);
• Able to use design/debugging tools and instruments (oscilloscopes, multimeters, function generators, programmable power supplies, logic analysers, JTAG);
• Proficient knowledge of software tools supporting Integrated Development Environments (IDE), version control, defect reporting and scripting;
• Familiarity setting up various embedded toolchains, build, and debugging environments;
• You master design and testing lifecycles in regulated environments
• You are able to exercise independent judgment and sometimes defines new procedures and practices to improve team and company performance;
• Proficient ability to use the appropriate processes, procedures, and tools throughout the software development life cycle;
• Great team spirit, creative mind, love to take responsibilities, passion for what you do;
• You have good verbal and written communication skills.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here, apply now!