Embedded Software Engineer, Pennsylvania

Duration: 12+ months

Compensation: $45-70/hr 

Location: On-site 5 days/week in Philadelphia, PA

Responsibilities:

Responsible for driving on-time, high quality releases across a large number of devices.

Responsible for the complete release management lifecycle, which includes scheduling, coordination, and management of releases on number of deployed devices.

You will assess and implement new tools, plugins, etc. that are necessary to improve the software release engineering process.

Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality.

Ensure stable/release branch builds are in good health daily.

Provide test guidance to QA teams for the release targets and ensure targets are on track.

The position will require daily collaboration with Development, Field Triage and QA teams in various locations.

Collaborate with Field Triage team to review the machine metrics for the key aspects of video, broadband, and voice related functionalities.

Conduct post-deployment feature reviews to ensure features are doing well in the field.

Communicate release notes and plans to external stakeholders.

Requirements:

Must have at least 5+ years of experience in Embedded Software Engineering and Release Management preferably within Broadband and/or networking domain.

Experience with Continuous Integration & Delivery.

Release Management experience in Agile environment.

Lead and own activities that would drive Release excellence on all RDK devices.

Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Excellent organizational, technical, problem solving, and communication skills.

Document processes, identify potential points of failure, and perform root cause analysis.

Build/Release Tools/Technologies:

SCM Tools: Git, Gerrit, SVN

Languages: C, C++ & Linux

Scripting: Python & Shell

Build tools: Jenkins

Reporting Tools: Tableau & Splunk/Elastic

JIRA plugins & Confluence