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Digital Control Incorporated (DCI) is the world's leading supplier of underground locating and steering products for the horizontal directional drilling (HDD) industry. Since the introduction of this revolutionary technology 30 years ago, Digital Control has been at the forefront of trenchless technologies that enable the efficientinstallationof underground utilities such as fiber optic, telecom, gas, and water lines world-wide. DCI's products are valued for their durable design, ease of use and uncompromising commitment to customer service.

DCI is seeking a Sr. Embedded Software Developer in Kent, WA. If you are passionate about developing next generation embedded software, then DCI could be a perfect fit for you!

What you'll do

• You will be responsible for writing production-level code.
• You will design, develop, and debug on embedded devices.
• You will be a part of designing and taking a product to market.
• You will participate in all project lifecycle phases, from design and code development through unit testing, documentation, and release.
• You will collaborate with business stakeholders to understand needs and translate into technical requirements.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience with a focus in embedded software development.
• Strong experience with modern C++, 11 or higher, is required, including the ability to communicate and implement object-oriented class designs.
• Experience with developing on Linux Operating Systems is required; preferably a Debian based distribution.
• Experience developing automated unit tests and working with SDETs/QA to ensure product quality is required.
• Develops, debugs, and optimizes embedded software in C for microprocessorbased systems, including lowlevel drivers, hardware interfaces, and realtime control logic.
• A bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent.

Desired

• Experience with concurrency topics (i.e. threading and inter-process communication), event loops, and asynchronous programming.
• Usage of lab tools such as oscilloscopes or serial analyzers to debug software, and the ability read electrical schematics.
• Knowledge with Jenkins Continuous Integration, Make and Google Test, Python, and or Golang.
• Comprehensive understanding of data structures and algorithm topics.
• Experience with network programming topics (e.g. TCP, UDP, sockets, REST, etc.), Standard and BLE Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.
• Competent with interfacing application code with device drivers on Linux.
• Proficient with Linux kernel development, device trees, driver modification or backporting, bootloader customization, and/or Qt stack.
• Designs, deploys, and maintains resilient mesh networking systems, including node routing, self-healing topologies, and low power wireless communication protocols.
• Develop and maintain crossplatform applications using Qt (Qt Widgets/QML), including UI design, event-driven architecture, and integration with underlying C++ modules.
• Strong understanding of Agile development.

Who you are

• Self-driven, results oriented developer who strives to write clean, modular and well commented code without taking short-cuts and drives their software through the 'final 10%' to take a product to market.
• Someone who enjoys taking initiative and seeing a task through from start to finish.
• Collaborate with an experienced and motivated team to create novel solutions to difficult problems.

If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement, we encourage you to still apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or another role at DCI.

Benefits

• Unparalleled health benefits (PPO plan with no deductibles, no co-pays, DCI covers 99% of costs)
• Quarterly bonuses: we all share in the success of the company
• Professional development
• 401k match (3% match from DCI regardless of participation, 5% maximum match, 100% vested immediately)
• 22 days PTO
• Parental leave
• Company covers 100% of payroll taxes for state family medical leave
• 11 annual paid holidays plus 1 floating holiday
• Winter break (we are closed the last week of each year)
• See more benefits information here.

Compensation:

• DCI is proud to offer comprehensive compensation packages including competitive base pay and discretionary quarterly profit sharing bonuses to all part-time and full-time team members. Base pay is reviewed at a minimum on an annual basis.
• Pay range: $151,200 - $174,700 per year. To ensure equity, our compensation philosophy is to bring people into new roles in the range of the mid-point of that role. Factors consideredfor payinclude thelevel of skill,experience, training, external market factors, and internal value.
• Profit sharing bonus: Over the last 3 years, quarterly bonuses ranged between 11% and 17%. Future bonuses could be higher or lower depending on company profits.

Why DCI?

Work hard, play often... DCI employees are innovative and creative. Our open (forest-like) work environment creates free flowing conversations across all functions. We have gaming days; Lego challenges and ping pong matches to build on our creativity when one hits a roadblock. If that is not enough, our employees bring their four-legged companions (dogs) to work and can take them for a walk around the Green River trail.

DCI takes pride in caring a lot about our employees. We believe that employees should not be burdened with benefits expenses, so we provide lucrative health care plans unmatched in most other companies. We also like to eat at DCI and find any excuse to celebrate the most random holidays (Pi Day, Chocolate Ice Cream Day, etc.) We have monthly catered lunches, a fully stocked snack area,sporting tickets, wellness competitions, and most importantly a team of people who will tell you that DCI is the best place they've ever worked. This is evident by our long service team and low turnover.

Hybrid Work Schedule:

Success delivering the highest quality products requires this role to collaborate across engineering, product and manufacturing. This position has a primary work location at the Kent, WA location.

We Celebrate Inclusion:

DCI is an equal opportunity employer. Employment at DCI is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. DCI does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law.

It is DCI's policy to comply with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity. The Company's EEO policy includes the full & complete support of the Company and all levels of leadership. Because it's just the right thing to do. We hope you think so too.