Job Title: Vulkan Graphics Engineer

Location: Remote - Canada or US

Who we are: Lynx Software Technologies, Inc. is a leading technology firm specializing in RTOSs, Hypervisors, and other system-level software for the military and aerospace sectors. With over 30 years of experience, we meet stringent certification requirements, ensuring our customers build software systems that withstand the highest demands for reliability and security. Following its 2022 acquisition by Private Equity firm OceanSound Partners, Lynx has rapidly expanded through strategic acquisitions, including:

• TimeSys: Strengthening expertise in Linux and open-source solutions.
• Thompson Software Solutions: Adding system integration capabilities for safety-critical and mission-critical projects.
• CoreAVI: Enhancing GPU and certified graphics solutions for advanced visualization and safety-critical applications.

Today, Lynx is at the forefront of mission-critical edge computing and secure safety-critical systems, delivering cutting-edge technology solutions with robust security frameworks.

At CoreAVI, we are revolutionizing the aviation, automotive and autonomous spaces with our safety critical innovations, inspiring cutting-edge technological advances in functionally safe ecosystem frameworks encompassing graphics, compute, and autonomous solutions. We are expanding our existing Software Development Group with individuals experienced in graphics and compute acceleration, functional safety, and certification compliance. The Software Development Group is engaged throughout the product development lifecycle, ensuring alignment with applicable regulatory standards.

Key Responsibilities:

The ideal candidate should be passionate about software engineering and possess leadership skills to drive sophisticated issues to resolution. They are required to communicate effectively and work optimally with geographically and culturally diverse teams across CoreAVI, such as Architecture, Implementation, Product Management, Quality Assurance, Verification and Certification teams. Our products are focused on graphics processor technologies, and successful candidates will require solid experience in graphics driver development and integration.

• Develop, integrate, debug, and certify graphics drivers that implement Vulkan SC across a compliment of GPUs in the CoreAVI portfolio.

• Develop, integrate, debug, and certify products that are based on Vulkan SC.
• Ensure compliance to Khronos based conformance test suites for all open standard interfaces.
• Develop internal, robust test suites for both Vulkan SC drivers and derived products in support of quality assurance.
• Develop baseline drivers and product compliment on Windows/Linux that will ultimately be deployed on safety critical operating systems and targets.
• Adhere to regulatory guidelines and generate pertinent artifacts in support of certification activities.
• Comply with defined coding standards and execute in alignment with defined end-to-end development lifecycle: proof of concept, in addition to the formal design and review of all software components (architecture capture, high / low Level requirement creation and code implementation).

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Mathematics.
• Prior professional level experience: 8+ years for Principal post, 4-8 years for Senior post, and 1-4 years for entry level post, as a software developer with accelerated graphics and compute platforms (embedded safety critical is a plus).
• Exceptionalorganizational,communication, collaboration,and team building skills.

• Diligent, tenacious, high integrity, strongwork ethic,and sound problem-solving skills.
• Excellent C/C++ programming skills.
• Experience programming and optimizing graphics & compute drivers and applications.
• 3D graphics & compute API knowledge and experience (OpenGL, and/or Vulkan).
• 3D graphics & compute driver knowledge and experience.
• Windows / Linux development proficiency.
• Experience with multi-threading and concurrent programming (multicore work distribution a plus).
• Familiarity with performance analysis tools and strong debugging skills.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Working experience of open standard graphics and compute FACE/Khronos Interfaces (OpenGL SC 1.0, OpenGL SC 2.0, Vulkan SC, OpenCL, SYCL, OpenVX, BLAS/FFT, NNEF, Video Encode / Decode).
• Working experience with industry pertinent coding languages (C/C++, GLSL, ESSL, SRIR-V, GPU-ISA, Graphics and Compute Shaders, CUDA, Python).
• General Architectural Construct Knowledge (safety critical embedded real time graphics driver development,Real Time Operating Systems(RTOS), hypervisors, multicore CPU configurations, inter-process communication, interrupt management, CPU/GPU synchronization methods, multi-threaded / multi-partitioned frameworks, virtualization mechanisms, robust time & space partitioning).
• Experience with embedded operating systems (VxWorks, Integrity, Deos, QNX, etc.).
• Experience with certification compliance artifacts and audit support (SLR/HLR/LLR requirement generation and traceability, structural/MCDC/statement coverage, control and data coupling assessment compliance, and MISRA coding standards).
• Adept at working in geographically distributed development teams.
• Proficiency with development tools and supporting framework (DOORS, RTC, RTRT, Git, Jira), as well as the MicrosoftOffice tool suite, including Visio, SharePoint,OneDrive, andTeams.
• Experience working with both waterfall and agile processes(scrummaster certificationa plus).
• Experienced withSix Sigma,Leanprinciples,CMMI, OKRs (Objectives & Key Results).
• Experience with DO-178 and ISO 26262 is a plus.

Sound Exciting? Get in touch today! We have very robust benefits including:

• Low-cost Medical / Dental / Vision coverage options
• 401K with generous employer match
• Responsible Paid Time Off + 11 Paid Holidays
• Remote work opportunities based on role
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Career growth and professional development opportunities

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.