Published Description:
Background
The world around us is experiencing significant change, the greatest in generations.
At McLaren Applied, we’re accelerating the response to that change. Our vision is that our people and technologies will pioneer a better future. Our mission is to achieve breakthroughs in performance.
We’re at the cutting edge of innovation in industries including automotive transportation and motorsport. We create solutions that drive efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
We want to help to reduce the carbon footprint and become more sustainable. Our focus is on electrification and telemetry, control and analytics.
To deliver efficient lightweight electric powertrain and vehicle development; motorsport solutions that make series more sustainable and efficient; reliable connectivity solutions for transportation and insightful analytics and monitoring of transport fleets.
By applying our expertise, we deliver real benefits and pioneer a better future.
Function
Our agile cross functional portfolio teams work collaboratively to solve interesting and challenging problems in industries we participate in.
Typically, our teams comprise of Data Scientists and/or Simulation Engineers, Full Stack Software Engineers, Test Engineers, System Reliability Engineers (DevOps) and Systems Engineers.
Purpose of the Role
You will become one of our key contributors who guide and foster innovation by developing leading edge products that span various market segments including transportation, automotive and motorsport.
As a Communications Software Engineer who is passionate about technology, you will use the most effective and applicable technologies to create scalable, high-performance wireless networking solutions for fleets of vehicles and other physical assets.
You will develop and maintain reusable software components for a combination of off-the-shelf and bespoke hardware ranging from cloud-based servers to resource-constrained embedded units all running customized Linux environments.
You will learn how to leverage existing open source software to extend our capabilities, integrating and tailoring software to suit customers’ needs, through clean and consistent coding.
Basic Qualifications
We are looking for an applicant who has:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
- Experienced working in and developing for a Linux environment
- Understanding of TCP/IP networking fundamentals – the different protocol layers and what they’re for, the basics of routing, flow control and congestion avoidance
- Proficient in developing applications in Python
- Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed
- Ability to write and speak in English fluently
Desirable & Development Areas
Some of the below would be beneficial to the applicant, but opportunities to develop in these areas will also be provided:
- Coding for Linux Systems
- Linux systems in C; familiar with the standard C and POSIX libraries including the socket API
- Linux core tools; Bash, GCC, make and Git
- Linux device driver or other kernel development experience, in particular working with the network stack
- Networking Knowledge and Experience
- Layer 1 and 2 networking knowledge: Ethernet, wireless protocols
- Developing wireless devices: wireless network behaviour, basic protocol knowledge, measurement and testing of device performance
- Cloud Software Development
- Building products on cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure and GCP and micro services
- Infrastructure as code (preferably Terraform and Terragrunt)
- Containerization and container orchestration (preferably Docker and Kubernetes) and related managed services (e.g. EKS).
- SQL and NoSQL databases
- Time Series databases
- Database/application scaling, optimisation and monitoring
- Message brokers such as Kafka and/or MQTT
- Designing, developing and creating RESTful web services and APIs
- CICD pipelines and test automation
- Front-end technology (e.g. Angular, React, Django)
- Good understanding of agile or lean development practices