Software Engineer

The Software Engineer applies the principles of software engineering to design, develop, test, and maintain our OSI software products. The Software Engineer has the primary responsibility to provide a successful implementation of the assigned software modules. The Software Engineer will collaborate with a team of multidisciplinary engineers and stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of our software products to our end users and customers. Our Engineers have a focus on collaboration, and assist their team with devising innovative technical solutions and removing roadblocks. As a group, the engineers work together to complete software development activities through the full software lifecycle. To do this the Software Engineer must demonstrate strong communication skills and interpersonal skills. The OSI Software Engineer exhibits professionalism, integrity, and ownership.

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Follows the SDLC, Software Development Lifecycle using Software Engineering best practices as described in the OSI documented processes and training. 
• Follows the coding standards and best practices to write high quality source code in C and C++. 
• Participates in peer reviews of the source code and ensures all development is maintained in the version control repository. 
• Prepares software specifications and manages requirements for new software features. 
• Produces software detailed designs and makes regular updates to the design documents when changes are made. 
• Maintains the code by correcting defects (bugs) and troubleshooting system problem reports and customer tickets. 
• Demonstrates full ownership for their work, resolving road blocks, and communicates deadlines and technical challenges to their Technical Lead or Manager. 
• Produces software estimates and participates in technical work breakdown and defining scope. 
• Identifies, analyses, and resolves diverse software technical challenges. 
• Commits to project objectives and meeting the project schedule and budgets. 
• Provides technical expertise and reviews of documentation including the publications developed by the Technical Publication group. 
• Produces software technical documentation which supports the project or department needs.
• May take on additional responsibilities as a Technical Lead, delegating work, tracking work, building teams moral, helping to move team road blocks and reporting on behalf of the team to the Project Manager. 
• May participate in the concept phase including the creation of prototypes or use cases. 
• May support the Test Team activities including running test procedures and supporting lab setup or deployment may assistance is required. 
• Provides support to multidisciplinary teams and sales teams as a subject matter expert. 
• Provides technical guidance and mentoring to new staff including participation in onboarding and the buddy program. 
• May interface and provide support and assistance to customers while visiting sites or ships. 
• Demonstrates professionalism when interfacing with customer and prioritizes customer requests. 
• Makes recommendations for changes to software development guidelines, tools and standards, and assists in the creation and rollout of new improvements. 
• Commits to prioritizing and correcting Usability, Safety and Security concerns. 
• Complies with OSI’s established ISO-9001-compliant development guidelines and standards 
• Follows and ensures workplace operating and environmental, health and safety procedures and guideline compliance 

KNOWLEDGE & QUALIFICATIONS 

• Experience: 5+ years’ experience in a software environment; experience in developing real-time interfaces to external systems; experience working in an ISO 9001 compliant software engineering environment would be an asset; experience in the defense or aerospace domains is an asset 
• Technical Skills: Experience in C/C++ development under Windows in areas such as 2D/3D graphics, Open GL, TCP/IP, GPS, UDP Multicast, and real-time systems are highly desirable
• Ability to understand and work with complex software requirement specifications; strong theoretical and algorithmic background with experience in mathematical and/or geospatial applications; ability to assist with analysis and design of solutions for algorithmically complex requirements; 
• Other: Required to obtain security clearance; occasional travel; knowledge of marine navigation concepts and systems is an asset
• Education: Degree in Computer Science, Software, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Engineering Physics or Mathematics. 
• The range for this role is $80,000-100,000 CDN and the actual salary offered will be commensurate with education, experience and internal parity.