Software Engineer - Linux EmphasisSoftware Engineer - Linux Emphasis
Job Title: Software Engineer - Linux Emphasis
Job Type: Full-Time
Location: Pullman, WA
Job Description:
The Opportunity:Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) seeks a professional, innovative and detailed individual for our Software Engineer - Linux Emphasis position. Our team develops custom tools that solve difficult, company-wide software development problems.
Our products, built right here in the US, have unmatched quality in the high-tech industry: each comes with a 10 year, unconditional warranty. We have a 'Red Light' policy - if a product has a known defect in it, we don't ship. We are looking for smart, hard working individuals that see the value of building only the best!
Benefits include 100% employee ownership, profit-sharing bonuses, Friday Lunch (a weekly, catered, company-wide business meeting) and separate annual/personal/sick leave. Located in Eastern Washington, enjoy the smaller town life: country space, freedom from traffic, easy access to recreational activities in nearby mountains, rivers, and forests, as well as great schools and tware Engineer - Linux EmphasisResponsibilities:
* Build, deploy, and maintain Linux firmware build systems and other Linux-based custom tooling to support R&D efforts.
* Work independently and in small groups to research, design, document, develop, test, release, support, and maintain custom tools that help R&D make the highest quality products possible.
* Provide critical feedback on team member's designs, documentation, code, and tests.
* Design, prepare, and present training on new and existing tools as needed.
* Work with R&D employees to identify and support standard development practices.
* Maintain familiarity with tools market (both open source and vendor supplied) and regularly evaluate new tools.
* Work with IT department and tools vendors to support and resolve issues with vendor tools.
* Participate in industry technical meetings and conferences as needed.
* Help define standard tools for developers.
* Work to identify, measure, and improve R&D's lifications:
* B.S. in a Science/Engineering field or equivalent experience
* Minimum 1 year experience in software development
* Minimum 2 years of power user/developer experience in *nix systems
* Minimum 20K lines of code written or maintained
* Comfortable with version control systems
* Proficiency with *nix tools (bash, sed/awk/grep & family)
* Excellent writing, documentation and speaking skills
* Proficiency in languages from at least two of the following categories:
* C-like languages (e.g. C, Objective C, Pascal)
* Scripting languages (e.g. Perl, Python, Ruby)
* Object-oriented languages (e.g. C#, C++, Java)
* Functional language (e.g., Haskell, ML, Lisp)
* Desire and aptitude to learn new skills and assume new responsibilities
* Ability to work cooperatively in a cross-project, cross-product environment
* Capable and comfortable with regularly using multiple technologies and tools in a dynamic
* environment
* Background check results satisfactory to SEL
* Negative drug test result(s)Preferred Qualifications:
* Familiarity with the Linux gcc toolchain
* Familiarity with autotools
* Proficiency with *nix build systems (e.g., portage, emerge, apt-get)
* Proficiency with embedded systems
* Experience with modern version control systems (e.g., git, hg)
* Experience as a release/system/networking engineer
* Experience with relational database design and development (e.g. ER diagrams, SQL)
* Familiar with testing frameworks (e.g., NUnit, JUnit, or other xUnit frameworks, TAP)Other Desirable Qualifications:
* Served as a package maintainer for *nix systems
* Release experience with firmware in an enterprise
* Experience with SCADA systems
* Experience building Linux kernels which have custom patchesAn Award Winning CompanySchweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) has a reputation for quality, reliability, integrity, and service, which has enabled us to expand both within the electric utility market and into industrial, international, and OEM markets.
In an independent survey conducted by Newton-Evans Research Company, SEL ranks first in seven performance categories including technology, features, security against hackers, web/internet information ability, technical service and support, price, and relay setting PC software. SEL provides an excellent work environment and is the recipient of numerous awards, including one of the "100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Washington State" (Puget Sound Business Journal, 1999 - 2003, 2010, and 2011), Association of Washington Businesses Manufacturing, Workplace, and Community Service awards (1998-2010), and the Washington State Quality Achievement Award (WSQA).Apply Your Talent. Make a Difference. Enjoy the you ready to be part of a highly motivated and well-equipped team? Are you a quick learner who likes new challenges? If so, then you are ready to join us at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories.
Dr. Edmund O. Schweitzer III delivered the first commercial digital protective relay in 1984. Under his technical, managerial, and fiscal leadership, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories has expanded to over 2700 employees. Ed understands and supports the need for investing in employees. In return, he expects that we hire only the best, most highly motivated team members, and that we deliver simple, reliable, and cost-effective products and solutions.
Our products and solutions must be simple and reliable because they protect the largest, most complicated machine on earth: the electric power grid. Blackouts in the U.S. and Canada remind us that reliable electric power is crucial to our society. SEL provides systems, services, and products for the protection, monitoring, control, automation, and metering of utility and industrial electric systems worldwide.
Our company and our products exist to make electric power safer, more reliable, and more economical. That purpose has made SEL very successful, and the company is managed with sound fiscal judgment and that purpose in mind. Profits are reinvested to fuel the company's growth.
In addition to offering a variety of challenges in a supportive, stable environment, SEL shares its success with employees by giving them stock in the company. All employees earn stock at the same rate. And because only employees can own SEL stock, the stock price is not subject to market volatility. Even when the stock market value has plunged, SEL stock consistently increased in value.
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Benefits:SEL has an excellent benefits package including medical, dental, and vision for all regular full-time employees and their entire family; long-term disability and life insurance; education assistance programs; a very generous employee stock ownership plan; 401K; flexible benefit account; and an outstanding work Apply For This Position:We ask all candidates to submit their resume through our website at If your qualifications and experience match any of our current openings, please submit your resume for that position so that you may be considered immediately.
SEL is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
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