Operating System Engineer Jobs in Pittsburgh, PA

Job Summary:
Carnegie Mellon University is a prestigious institution seeking a highly skilled Resiliency Automation Engineer to support embedded systems development in a regulated environment. The role involves collaborating with various teams to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, ensuring the stability, security, and maintainability of the codebase across all phases of the application development lifecycle.
Responsibilities:
• Collaborate closely with development, verification, and operations teams to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, static analysis workflows, and deployment environments.
• Participate in all phases of the application development lifecycle and be involved in key decisions regarding software design and technology selection including hands-on development activities.
• Strong ability to analyze source code and identify quality concerns, architecture challenges and security weaknesses.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated workflows for embedded software projects written in C, C++ and Java.
• Integrate and manage static analysis tools (e.g., SonarQube, CppCheck, Clang-Tidy) to monitor code quality, enforce coding standards, and identify defects early in the lifecycle.
• Collaborate with development and verification leads to incorporate automated test, build, and deployment processes into embedded firmware and software systems.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management (e.g., using Docker and Kubernetes) for test, staging, and production environments.
• Provide guidance on best practices for software engineering, code quality, maintainability, and scalability in an embedded systems context.
• Collaborate with teams from multiple organizations to support integrated system delivery, ensuring the build and toolchain workflows align with mission requirements.
Qualifications:
Required:
• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field with 8 years of relevant experience; OR MS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Systems and/or Engineering, or Acquisition Management with 5 years of experience; OR Ph.D. with 2 years of experience.
• You have a willingness to travel (25%) outside of your office location to other SEI offices, sponsor sites, conferences, and offsite meetings.
• You will be subject to a background investigation, and you must have the ability to obtain and maintain a Department of War (DoW) security clearance.
• Strong ability to analyze source code and identify quality concerns, architecture challenges and security weaknesses.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated workflows for embedded software projects written in C, C++ and Java.
• Integrate and manage static analysis tools (e.g., SonarQube, CppCheck, Clang-Tidy) to monitor code quality, enforce coding standards, and identify defects early in the lifecycle.
• Collaborate with development and verification leads to incorporate automated test, build, and deployment processes into embedded firmware and software systems.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management (e.g., using Docker and Kubernetes) for test, staging, and production environments.
• Provide guidance on best practices for software engineering, code quality, maintainability, and scalability in an embedded systems context.
• Collaborate with teams from multiple organizations to support integrated system delivery, ensuring the build and toolchain workflows align with mission requirements.
• Relevant recent experience, within the last 3 years, working on a large software development program.
• Deep familiarity with general Linux operating system concepts, embedded RTOSes and development environments.
• Knowledge of how to apply system engineering principles to system software development.
Preferred:
• Experience with Java in a DevOps or automation context.
• Prior work in regulated or mission-critical environments. (e.g., aerospace, defense, embedded systems)
• Familiarity with observability, logging, and monitoring tools as part of the software delivery lifecycle.
• Experience mentoring or leading junior engineers and contributing to tool chain or process improvements.
Company:
We conduct cutting-edge research and development that accelerates the transition of technology to the Department of War (DoW), delivering measurable impact in support of the national security mission. Founded in 1984, the company is headquartered in Pittsburgh, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.