Software Engineer

This position is a member of a small software group in Ametek s India office. This group in the Indian office is part of a larger software team that includes software engineer(s) in NJ.

This software team is responsible for the design, development and support of leading-edge software products that support our world-class Phantom Cameras. Primarily, this is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) product and a Software Development Kit (SDK) that controls and communicates with our cameras, downloads and views one or multiple cines (video files), and performs image processing, file transfers, file editing, etc. as required. The current GUI is written in C++, QT and QML, the legacy UI is written in C# and the SDK is written in C/C++.

Reporting Structure

Reports to the Manager of Software Engineering

Job Responsibilities

The job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• The primary focus of this position will be in releasing and supporting the SDK using C/C++ and Microsoft Visual Studio. There may be some need to also work on the various desktop applications and libraries, mainly using C#, Qt and QML
• Other duties as assigned.

Necessary Skills/Talents

• B.S. Degree (M.S. preferred) in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• Dependable, driven, teachable person with good work ethic and is excited to learn and take on new challenges.
• Thorough understanding of C/C++ design and programming concepts.
• Will be required to work a few hours 2 or 3 evenings a week to coordinate with NJ software team.
• Flexible, able to change priorities when given new directives for the greater good of the team. Committed to progress and comfortable with the occasional fluidity in hours, to ensure synchronicity between India and US teams.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience in troubleshooting, debugging and maintaining existing code.
• Excellent technical judgment and decision-making skills.
• Recognizes speed of execution as a competitive advantage for Vision Research and thus makes decisions and takes risks to support the rapid development of products and solutions

Desirable Skills

• Experience with C++, QT and QML
• Image processing & compression, OpenCL, GPU (CUDA), assembler (SSE2) programming, Windows Sockets, familiarity with Codecs, e.g. H.264.