Integration Engineer

• Region: France
• Office Location: Paris
• Division: Research and Development
• Reporting to: Director of Development
• Position: Integration engineer
• Start Date: ASAP
• Terms: Permanent, full-time

Position Summary and Primary Objectives

• Contribute to the management and operation of Qosmos’ development environment: set up, maintain and support management tools for the configuration and generation of binary deliverables, work on code review tools and infrastructure.
• Analyze, parameter and code software components in respect of standards and procedures, and according to the evolution guidelines set out for existing components.
• Contribute to the following projects:
• Porting of products on platforms/embedded systems/distributions
• Evaluation of emerging hardware platforms and distributions
• Enhancement, optimization and evolution of the Qosmos kernel and framework
• Ensure that technical goals and deadlines are met.

Main Duties / Key Accountabilities

• Porting of products, taking on board new platforms and environments
• Analysis of norms and standards
• Reverse engineering
• Research of technical specifications

Development environment

• Management of CVS and branches, and all configuration management tools used by Qosmos
• Management of specific version releases
• Management of build system
• Generate ISO distributions, builds and trees

Maintenance, debug

• Corrective maintenance
• Upgrade maintenance

Key challenges

• Parallel management of numerous complex projects
• Take on board emerging and potentially complex environments and platforms with a limited set of tools and software
• Ensure the functioning of the Qosmos range of products, with particular attention to performance, portability and respect of technical standards
• Ensure optimum performance levels
• Potentially, ensure “Carrier Grade” stability in Linux kernel environment

Education, Training and Experience

• Junior engineer : first experience to 2 years’ experience (depending on candidate’s potential)
• Highly motivated by C/system development
• Strong grounding in low- level/system is essential
• Working knowledge of networks (principles, OSI model at minimum)
• Good knowledge of Linux system is required, knowledge of kernel a plus
• Real interest in Linux distributions, familiar with concepts
• Interest in or experience of embedded systems (low-level system)
• Experience or knowledge of system/network administration a plus
• Familiarity with scripting languages a plus (Perl, Bash, Python, shell scripts)
• Interest in (or experience of) configuration management: CVS, SVN, source management, builds, compilation robot, etc.

Personal Attributes and Skills Required

• Methodic, attentive to detail
• Personal involvement
• Ability to manage priorities
• Open-minded and solution-oriented
• Fluent English