Software Engineer

Job Responsibilities

• Prototyping and software development of the telescope operational software (all stages of the full software development life cycle may be encountered).
• Provide hands-on technical support in the system administration of the hardware platforms, deployment environments, and processing, which may include site visits to the Karoo.
• Collaborate with departmental stakeholders to support engineering, commissioning, operations, and early science activities.
• Assist in maturing software development and quality assurance processes towards greater standardization and improved long-term maintainability and robustness.
• Facilitate coding standard compliance and code reviews, which include mentoring junior engineers.
• Provide project management and progress reporting input as required by the Functional Manager and for team communication.

Desired Experience & Qualification

KEY REQUIREMENTS:

QUALIFICATION:

• B.Tech/B.Sc. (Comp Sci) with 5+ years
• B.Eng./B.Sc. Hons (Comp Sci) with 4+ years
• M.Eng/M.Eng/M.Sc. (Comp Sci) with 3+ years
• PhD with 2+ years
• Engineering (with a software focus) or related field

EXPERIENCE:

• Experience in a software engineering environment, preferably in an engineering development project environment with a strong software focus.
• Python or C/C++ programming language and experience in development, testing, deployment, commissioning, release, and support of large-scale projects in Python or C/C++.
• Technical knowledge of development in Linux operating systems (experience in system administration of such will be beneficial).
• Technical experience in architecture design and development of large software projects (experience with control and monitoring will be beneficial).
• Experience in programming in the Python programming language.
• Experience in prototyping and development, including testing, deployment, commissioning, release, and support of large-scale projects.
• Experience with test-driven development and integration testing techniques, methodologies, and frameworks; and supporting systems like revision control and build systems.
• Experience with quality assurance processes and software development processes and willingness to participate in improving software development processes and software quality procedures.
• Experience in the implementation of project management and system engineering principles.

KNOWLEDGE:

• Modern software collaboration tools such as GitHub, Containers, Google Drive, JIRA, etc.
• Python programming language