Embedded Systems Developer

Québec City, QC (On-Site) – Office/Client

Job Summary

Working as a senior embedded systems developer at Thales Digital Solutions, you will be paired with a dynamic and growing team composed of engineers and scientists with highly diverse knowledge and skills. Our team specializes in embedded systems cyber analysis and the development of countermeasures.

Our mandate is to ensure that Thales's critical solutions and those of our clients are resilient in the face of potential cyber attacks. We therefore strive to protect various critical operational technologies and Industrial IoTs such as vehicles, airplanes, boats, and satellites. We therefore have a concrete and very real impact on the security of these critical systems.

As an embedded systems developer at Thales Digital Solutions:
• As an embedded systems developer, you will be responsible for developing, testing, and delivering software that can be deployed on embedded systems or that allows communication with embedded systems in collaboration with clients;
• Work in close collaboration with multidisciplinary, dynamic, and growing teams that specialize in embedded systems hardware security analysis and the development of countermeasures whose mandate is to ensure that Thales and customer critical solutions are resilient to potential cyber attacks as well as ensuring the protection of various critical operational technologies and Industrial IoTs such as vehicles;
• As an embedded systems developer, you will have a concrete and very real impact on the security of these critical systems

Essential Functions

• Participate in software or hardware reverse engineering of certain embedded systems to understand how they work and identify potential vulnerabilities;
• Perform penetration tests on embedded systems;
• Develop and assemble test benches to perform cybersecurity tests;
• Perform tests to confirm vulnerabilities (observation or destructive);
• Develop tools to communicate with or analyze the behavior of embedded systems;
• Design, program, and test software that can be deployed on embedded systems;
• Participate in the smooth running of activities within an Agile team (Sprint Planning, Daily Meeting, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective);
• Document and effectively communicate the results of tests performed;
• Perform all of these tasks in compliance with team best practices.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in computer science, electronics, or any other related and relevant field;
• Knowledge of scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell) and programming languages (C/C++, C#, etc.);
• Knowledge of embedded programming software (Keil, STM32CubeIDE, etc.);
• Understanding of the internal workings of a microcontroller and internal peripherals (IO, DMA, Timers, PLL, ADC, DAC, etc.);
• Understanding of low-level protocols (I2C, SPI, Serial, CAN, etc.);
• Experience in electrical circuit design and manufacturing is an asset but not a requirement;
• Good command of spoken and written French; proficiency in English is an asset but not a requirement.

This position requires a good knowledge of English for writing technical documents, to interact, support, and/or provide services to international clients, employees, and/or partners as well as foreign government authorities who do not speak French.

Desirable Qualification

• Having an interest in the field of cybersecurity;
• Experience in embedded system component hardware security;
• Side-channel leak analysis or fault injection on embedded systems to assess and validate component-level hardware security;
• Experience with physical reading or probing techniques at the component level;
• Knowledge of disassembler software like IDA/Ghidra is an asset;
• A keen sense of code quality and good programming and architecture practices is desired;
• Having experience with Agile development methods (Scrum, Kanban) is an asset;
• Having an interest in embedded systems;
• Having intellectual curiosity, the desire to learn and diversify;
• Having aptitudes for teamwork and promoting collective intelligence;
• Having a good sense of professional ethics is essential.

This position may require meeting the eligibility criteria described in the Canadian Controlled Goods Program and the Industrial Security Program.