Contract Software Designer supporting customer projects for a 6-month contract in Portage, MI. Involves C++ application development on custom Linux platform with hybrid work arrangement.
Responsibilities
Design, implement, and maintain C++ applications running on a custom Yocto-based Linux platform
Integrate and configure Pulseaudio, spdlog, RapidJSON, and related libraries into existing or new services
Implement and debug inter-process communication using Linux sockets
Manage application configuration and persistence using the Linux filesystem and JSON-based configs
Create, configure, and troubleshoot systemd services for application components (start-up, shutdown, restart policies, logging)
Work with in-house engineers to diagnose and resolve issues on target hardware (e.g., performance, stability, resource usage)
Contribute to build and deployment workflows for Yocto images and application updates
Requirements
Strong modern C++ (C++11 or later) application development on Linux targets
Hands-on experience with custom Linux distributions built using **Yocto **or OpenEmbedded (building images, debugging target issues, integrating packages)
Comfortable developing Linux user-space applications that use:
**Pulseaudio **for audio routing and playback/capture on Linux systems
**spdlog **for structured, high-performance logging in C++
**RapidJSON **(or similar) for efficient JSON parsing/serialization in C++
POSIX/Linux sockets (TCP/UDP, basic networking, and IPC)
Linux filesystem APIs (file I/O, directory operations, permissions)
Linux service management (systemd units, logging, enabling/disabling services, service supervision)
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