Software Designer – Kernel Drivers

Position summary

Matrox is currently looking for a software designer for its Video products. The candidate will be integrated as a developer into an experienced Scrum team. We are looking for a candidate who is passionate about software development, who enjoys working as part of a team and who wants to deliver high quality products to our customers.

Using the C ++ programming language, you will participate in the design, development and maintenance of cross-platform kernel drivers controlling PCI express cards and that are used by top television broadcasters, post-production facilities, and multimedia producers for broadcast and real-time non-linear editing around the world.

Responsibilities

• Participate in daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, review and retrospective meetings;
• Collaborate with the product owner to fully understand customer requirements;
• Design and develop new functionalities;
• Participate in code reviews;
• Maintain and improve the quality of existing code;
• Create unit tests and integration tests;
• Develop sample applications that demonstrate the use of new features;
• Collaborate with other development teams.

Qualifications

You have the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering with computer science option or Computer Science;
• Strong knowledge of object oriented programming;
• 1 to 5 years of experience in C++;
• Good communication skills.

You master one or more of the following:

• Experience in Agile and Scrum practices;
• Experience in debugging real-time scenarios and in multi-threaded environments;
• Writing multiplatform libraries (Windows/Linux);
• Writing multiplatform kernel drivers (Windows/Linux);
• Hardware knowledge such as PCI express bus, I2C bus, processors architecture, FPGA design
• Experience in UML techniques and practices;

Knowledge of the following tools or technologies is considered an asset:

• JIRA,  Agile/Scrum tool;
• Git/ Bitbucket version control and code review;
• Visual Studio, WinDbg;
• GCC, CLANG, CMake, Make (makefiles), bash, gdb, powershell;
• Java, JNI, NetBeans, Eclipse;
• C++11;
• Knowledge of the architecture of the Windows and Linux operating systems;
• Knowledge in networking and its protocols;
• Knowledge of unit test frameworks;
• Knowledge of Microsoft COM technologies.