Job Title: Software Engineer
Location: Chesterfield MO 63017
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Description:
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Our Global Breeding Automation Engineering Team is a group of technologists passionate about creating the systems that fuel the farm of the future.
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We are reimagining and rebuilding our entire suite of field and lab technologies for the world of digital ag a world that is geospatial connected automated and cognitive.
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A world where every plant matters.
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A world where machines agronomists breeders scientists and engineers work collaboratively to deliver products that revolutionize the experience of our customers.
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Were looking for an experienced software engineer to join our Field Systems team to help create the next generation of automated R&D field equipment.
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Your responsibilities will include requirements design development test and support of our research control software systems.
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Systems capabilities include data acquisition from other hardware/software systems machine control cloud connectivity process control and user interaction.
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You will also be looked upon to be a technical leader and mentor to junior engineers.
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You will be a member of a cross functional team expected to set technical direction and organize how tasks fit into the overall project.
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This position requires a bachelors degree in computer engineering computer science electrical engineering mechanical engineering or related discipline with 4 years of demonstrable experience owning the development of automated/control systems.
Required Skills:
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Strong software development skills
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Ability to drive software development in all phases of the product lifecycle as part of a small multidisciplined engineering team.
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This includes project planning deriving requirements from system objectives organizing and prioritizing work delivering results and providing support.
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4 years experience developing machine to machine (M2M) and electromechanical automation system software in C# C C or Python
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4 years experience developing multithreaded/process applications/services and the common constructs and patterns associated with them.
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Excellent system (software and hardware) troubleshooting and debugging skills
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Experience with and an understanding of the value of modern development concepts and practices including OO principles unit testing agile development TDD and continuous delivery
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Experience developing networked systems that communicate with data generating devices and data aggregation and transformation services
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Experience developing with network protocols such as TCP/UDP MQTT Attention to detail and data driven decision making
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Experience with software projects that cross multiple team/company boundaries
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Experience in developing applications on multiple operating systems such as Windows Linux iOS Mac OS Android.
Preferred Skills:
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Experience developing IoT and data driven systems.
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4 years experience developing with MS technologies such as Visual Studio .NET WPF WinForms console applications etc.
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Experience using serial communication standards such as RS422 RS485 and RS232
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Experience developing datadriven systems using relational and/or NoSQL database technologies such as Oracle SQLite PostgreSQL SQL Server MongoDB Cassandra
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Experience with and understanding of the value of modern development tools such as Git CVS Subversion Jenkins NuGet JIRA Aha and Azure DevOps