Software Engineer

Overview

About MSA:

For 100 years our passionate mission of safety empowers us to protect lives. With 42 international locations and its head office in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, MSA is a global leader in the development, manufacture and supply of Personal Protective Equipment and Gas Detection System Solutions. We are committed to providing the latest in innovative, best-inclass safety solutions that feature integrated systems capability and allow our customers to return safely to their families and friends. Every day our customers place their lives in our hands. In response, we provide them with protection they can trust. It is gratifying to lead the way as a source of inspiration. More than 5,000 employees world-wide are already doing this.

Location:

Berlin – Adlershof

Responsibilities

What you get to do:

• Work for a tech company that makes solutions and products that directly protect and save lives of industrial/construction workers and firefighters around the world everyday, as well as the environment
• Grow in your craft, your career and the discipline of embedded software engineering while simultaneously delivering tangible and recognized value to internal and external customers
• Gain experience on a variety of technology stacks and product types as part of a highly engaged, highly skilled team that spans different skillsets, backgrounds, roles and global locations

• Industrial/construction worker gear, gas detectors and firefighter equipment, with various sensor technologies (e.g. environmental sensing, location, thermal imaging, infrared/lasers)
• IoT style ecosystem of physical/digital products with wireless and wired connectivity (e.g. AWS, cellular, GNSS, BLE)
• Safety critical software (SIL, security)

Qualifications

About you:

• Your mindset is one of personal, team and company growth
• You’re motivated to help others and to be helped by others as part of reaching larger goals together
• You want your work to be meaningful and you want to launch awesome products
• You don’t like doing the same thing over and over, you want to be challenged and to make a difference
• You value understanding the context and big picture while focusing on and working through the details of technical solutions
• You like active, growing cities with lots of history/culture/tech like Berlin, Germany and being part of a global team
• You want the excitement of tech, but with stability, work/life balance and in-person interaction

Special Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Understanding of the software lifecycle and the challenges and complexities that arise during a typical development cycle
• Strong technical skills in designing and implementing software that fits the need, including within the constraints of hardware
• Industry experience with: Microcontroller-based devices (FreeRTOS, ARM) w/ sensors; Modern software development/quality (git, C/C++/Python, unit testing, static analysis, automated integration testing, interface simulators, build/release)
• Ability to communicate well, including empathy for other viewpoints and helping move towards resolution that is best for the company and team

Experience Preferred:

• Wireless communications protocols (BLE, MQTT, etc.)
• Cloud connectivity for devices
• Embedded Linux (Yocto)
• System-level design/testing/debugging approaches

Education and Experience Required:

• BSCE, BSEE or relevant technical discipline, preferably from an ABET or similarly accredited program

Why joining MSA?

• Because everything we do is about saving lives
• Interesting projects and using state of the art technologies
• Join a tech company where products you work on literally protect and save firefighters, workers in dangerous industrial settings and the environment

What we offer:

• Meaningful projects: Make a difference – at MSA you’ll help saving lives
• Excellent equipment: Our Berlin research and development team works with state-of-the-art IT infrastructure
• Individual career paths: Based on personal wishes and aptitudes, we offer different development options
• Quick decisions: Start-up like environment with the backing and safety of a 100-year-old market leader
• Great team: Benefit from the diversity of your highly qualified colleagues and further develop your skills
• Onboarding: Every new employee participates to our onboarding training including personal buddy

If this sounds exciting to you, apply so we can talk!

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