Principal Software Engineer - Competitive Pay

At Johnson Controls, we’re shaping the future to create a world that’s safe, comfortable, and sustainable. Our global team creates innovative, integrated solutions making the people, facilities, and assets safe with our industry-leading security solutions. We are passionate about improving the way the world lives, works, and plays. This is an exciting opportunity to develop the next generation of AI-driven security solutions. Your role will have a large impact, as the technology you develop will be used to protect people, facilities, and assets, at scale – around the world. Which is pretty world-changing! 

You will be working with a talented team of architects, scientists, product managers, UI/UXD specialists, Software, Hardware, and QA engineers. Our teams are spread across several locations including Boston MA, Indianapolis IN, Belfast UK, Tel-Aviv Israel, Bangalore & Delhi India, Montreal Canada, Boca Raton FL, and Los Angeles CA.

You will be using the latest cutting-edge technologies to power next-generation Video Surveillance and Access Control solutions. Our market-leading brands include American Dynamics, Cloudvue, Illustra, Exacq, Software House, Kantech, Innometriks, and CEM. 

What you will do

You will be a Principal Software Engineer or an experienced Senior Software Engineer who is ready for the next step. You will develop innovative solutions for video AI. As a member of the software development team, you will work closely with AI development, software development, firmware development and testing teams to design, implement and optimize AI-based applications and services. You will have a proven background in software development and will apply this to develop high performance product solutions that can run on edge devices, cloud and on premise servers. You will follow secure development processes including contributing to threat analysis, participating in design reviews and code reviews.

How you will do it

• Participate in the full development life cycle from requirements to implementation and verification

• Contribute to the hands-on solution implementation

• Join in strategic discussions, keeping all stakeholders productively engaged

• Help to break complex features into user stories and tasks and provide estimates.

• Develop new features based on user stories.

• Work with your team to ensure the solution is robust, secure, resource optimized and cost effective.

• Use your excellent diagnostic and troubleshooting skills to solve problems

• Resolve complex technical issues through research and investigation

What we look for  

Required:  

• BSc/MSc/PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering with substantial experience in developing complex enterprise products/solutions

• 5+ years’ experience of C++ software development on Linux platforms

• Solid understanding of cyber security with emphasis on designing software for security

• Understanding of asynchronous vs. synchronous message processing and event-based architectures

• Experience should include some of the following: UDP/IP, TCP/IP, Multi-process and Multi-threading, Asynchronous programming, Databases, Open-Source Software Integration

• Strong written and verbal communications

• Ability to coach and mentor junior engineers

Desirable experience/ knowledge:  

• Docker Containers

• Experience with scripting languages e.g. Python, Bash

• Hybrid on-premise and Cloud computing implementation and integrations

• Cloud solutions on Azure, AWS or Google

• Video streaming technologies e.g. GStreamer

• AI and Deep Learning technologies, particularly for Computer Vision

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