Senior Software Engineer
ADTRAN, Inc.1 day ago
Dallas, TX, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture, design, development, integration, testing, deployment, sustaining support, and customer issue resolution of major embedded software features.
- Develop platform, kernel, device-driver, bootloader, and higher-level embedded applications primarily in C/C++.
- Create and execute unit, integration, system, and feature-level test strategies for software functionality, robustness, performance, and reliability.
- Contribute to system architecture and technical strategy across multiple subsystems and lead proof-of-concept investigations.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and infrastructure improvements, influence technical direction, and represent the organization in industry, standards, and customer engagements.
- Provide technical mentoring, design guidance, code reviews, and architectural knowledge transfer to junior and mid-level engineers.
- Collaborate with systems engineering, product line management, FPGA, hardware, and product teams to translate requirements into product solutions.
- Improve code quality through clean implementation, refactoring, automation, technical-debt reduction, and maintenance of unit and integration tests.
- Use AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude Code and contribute to AI-related engineering initiatives where appropriate.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Science, or equivalent education.
- Typically 8+ years of professional embedded software development experience or equivalent demonstrated expertise.
- Strong proficiency with Linux development environments, including system administration, debugging, build systems, process management, and performance analysis.
- Strong understanding of embedded software architecture, multithreading, concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization.
- Experience developing on Embedded Linux operating systems, including Linux kernel and device-driver development.
- Experience debugging complex software issues using GDB, core dumps, protocol analyzers, and system tracing tools.
- Proficiency with Git and modern source-control workflows, including branching, code reviews, and CI/CD integration.
- Experience implementing or troubleshooting Ethernet, VLAN, MPLS, LACP, STP/RSTP/MSTP, OAM, PTP, or other synchronization technologies.
- Familiarity with the SAFe development methodology.
- Strong interpersonal, project-management, analytical, investigative, presentation, and communication skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions and build consensus.
- Industry experience developing carrier-grade software for telecom/datacom transport equipment is preferred.
- Preferred qualifications include Layer 2 Ethernet expertise, familiarity with IEEE, ITU, and MEF standards, secure software development, open-source integration and maintenance, ARM-based embedded platforms, NETCONF, SNMP, gNMI, RESTCONF, high-availability architectures, CI/CD, and automated test frameworks.
- Limited travel may be required.
About ADTRAN, Inc.
ADTRAN builds fiber broadband access, optical transport, and Wi‑Fi networking equipment plus management software for telecommunications service providers and enterprises. It generates revenue by selling hardware platforms, software subscriptions, and support services, enabling FTTH/FTTx, Carrier Ethernet, and SD‑Access deployments. Founded in 1985 and headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, ADTRAN is a public company trading on NASDAQ under the ticker ADTN.