Embedded Engineer

Johannesburg, Gauteng
Posted more than 30 days ago
Company:
Frostbyte Digital
Company Description:
FrostByte is primarily focused on software engineering and a quality assurance consulting service for the Set-Top-Box, Mobile and Web based platforms. Keeping up to date on technology advancements allows us to provide the best possible solutions to our customers so that they can create great products.
Contract Type:
Contract
Experience Required:
5 to 10 years
Education Level:
Bachelor
Number of vacancies:
1

Job Description

A Systems Integration Engineer aims to integrate software components (created internally or externally) across enterprise-wide set top box software solutions. As a systems integration engineer, you will be responsible for coordinating software systems integration across cross-functional teams. You will be also involved in reviewing SI team deliverables, performing low-level designs and creating integration or test plans. Defect triage and the ability to provide technical recommendations to management and development teams is a key function of the role.

Roles and Responsibilities
• Individually responsible for delivering on project requirements
• Adherence to System Integration (SI) Strategies, Processes and Policies
• Creation, enhancement & enforcement of SI processes & policies with team members and 3rd party software component
vendors
• System and sub-system software integration of enterprise-wide set-top box software solutions using internally created and/or
off-the-shelf components
• Coordination of SI line function strategy execution across CFT
• Grooming & execution of the SI line function backlog: Identifying, developing, and maintaining tools to automate, improve &
support the SI line function
• Knowledge transfer within the team (Presentations & documentation)
• Architectural ownership & lifecycle management
• Infrastructure requirements identification, planning & tracking
• Infrastructure & lab setup
• Integration strategies & dependency mapping for the various work packages of the release
• Work breakdown structure, estimation and risk identification and mitigation
• Work package progress reporting & tracking
• Unified build tree setup, configuration & delivery
• Defect triage, engineering validation, technical recommendations (incl. approach & focus) & lifecycle management
• Build profiling, benchmarking & reporting
• Deployment planning & execution
• Generating vendor component bill of materials, acceptance criteria specification & build sign requests
• Engineering patches & ad-hoc support requests to component vendors
• Enforcement of the Company processes and policies with team members
• Adherence to the milestone driven hybrid project & cross-functional teams (CFT) process & policies

Qualifications
• B.Sc (Electronic and/or Computer Engineering) or similar qualification
• Post-Graduation in Electronics, Network technologies preferred

Experience
 Typically, 2+ years of experience in Consumer Electronic and Embedded Software Stack Integration and Technologies
(preferably STB), working through the Design, Development, Testing, Release cycle and Software delivery.
 Knowledge of Industry-wide best practices of Processes, Integration Techniques and Tools for Embedded Development
Required experience of:

 Embedded C/C++ and core Java programming languages
 Embedded hardware systems, real-time & Linux operating systems.
 Loader, Flash, Memory Mapping and other HW interfaces to SoCs, DDR, HDMI, Ethernet, USB, SATA, MoCa, AV
amplifiers, IR remote systems, HD TV technologies.

Advantageous:
 DVB (e.g. DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-T, DVB-H, DVB-IP), ISDB, MPEG, H.264, H.265, UHD, HDR, File compression techniques,
and interactive TV knowledge.
 Knowledge of STB software components like on-chip/off-chip drivers, Middleware technologies, and User Interface
framework.
 Understanding of Satellite Tx/Rx including satellite bands UHF/VHF/Ku-band.

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