Advanced Engineer, Software

Job Purpose

As an Advanced Engineer, Software at Hyliion, you will play a pivotal role in leading and driving innovation within the energy industry, all while ensuring the reliability of our cutting-edge KARNO generator technology. In this role, you will have significant ownership over the design, development, and deployment of advanced software algorithms for our industrial computing platform. This software will control and optimize our next-generation energy solutions, all while being an elegant interface for the customer integration experience. Your work will directly contribute to the efficiency, sustainability, and scalability of our KARNO product portfolio, and directly empower our mission to transform the global energy landscape.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-quality embedded code for the Karno Generator System.
• Work with software and hardware engineers in a collaborative product development team environment to architect, design and implement Best-In-Class Electrification and Software products.
• Efforts will include creating requirements, specifications, and test documents with Safety, Testing and Quality as critical elements from the start of any software project
• Develop and rapidly deploy software products for on hardware testing.
• Own direct controls software products from start to the very end, overcoming any obstacle in the way.
• Report and track issues that arise in deployed complex systems, as well as on the test stands that developed them. These issues demand clear understanding of the entire deployed system, which has hardware subsystems.
• Participate in the design and implementation of the Hyliion CI/CD environment, which consists of automated build and regression testing in a simulated environment, and deployed environments.
• Work closely with all teams on our ISO26262 and UL compliant development environment as we drive our generator into the global energy landscape energy sector.
• Design and maintain software architectures for embedded computing systems in industrial PC environments
• Develop and manage APQP documentation including FMEAs and DVP&Rs. 
• Ensure that software aspects of Hyliion products, meet all necessary safety, emission, and compliance requirements.
• Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned, needed, or required for the business.

Qualifications

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Qualifications include:

• Education, Experience and Certifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or related field. 
  • 5+ years of experience developing technical products and working in a team environment.
  • Proven track record of deploying successful and reliable software across any of the various environments; including industrial, aviation, military, automotive, or commercial applications
• Skills and Abilities
  • Experienced in writing and implementing low level drivers for MCU environments.
  • Expert in communication protocols such as CAN, Ethernet, SPI, I2C, Modbus, UDP.
  • Experienced in writing and performing unit tests.
  • Experienced in writing and owning documentation for software components.
  • Experienced in C/C++ and other scripting languages such as python or bash
  • Experienced in a setting up cross-compilation toolchains and development environments for building and debugging software in embedded Linux systems
  • Experience in developing customer-facing APIs for communication protocol integration
  • Experienced in developing low-level code for the control of hardware subsystems, whether the subsystem is directly attached, or network attached.  
  • Experienced in working hands-on with electronics and hardware.
  • Experience in Simulink software development is a plus.
  • Ability to break down difficult problems into smaller sub-tasks that can be performed or distributed across a team.  
  • Experienced with source control methodology and tools such as Git.  
  • Familiar with defect tracking systems such as Jira.  
  • Familiar with the agile development process. 
  • Strong follow-through and self-starting nature. 
  • Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing. 
  • Ability to write clear and concise documentation. 
  • Ability to effectively work with a team to solve problems and participate in code reviews. 
  • Ability to understand and follow complex verbal and written instructions.  
  • Ability to work well in a high-paced environment, set and meet appropriate deadlines. 
  • Willingness and ability to perform hands-on work on a benchtop, at a test cell, or on-site at a customer deployment.
  • Willingness and ability to work more than 8 hours a day to ensure that deadlines are achieved; weekly hours may regularly be between 50-60 during busy time periods. 
  • Position will involve travel (10-15% of time) to visit, work with, and evaluate engineering providers and hardware suppliers.

Role Classification and Working Conditions

This is a salaried, exempt-level position. This position typically works in an office environment; and given the nature of our business is also exposed to operations/warehouses/production environments.

Physical/Other Requirements

• Ability to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Ability to travel, as needed, by plane, automobile, etc.

We are not accepting candidates who require sponsorship for this position at this time.