Software Engineer

Overview :

Tekwissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. This client is a German multinational Pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world headquartered in Leverkusen and areas of business include pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products agricultural chemicals seeds and biotechnology products.

Job Title: Software Engineer

Location: Chesterfield MO 63017

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Contract

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Description:

• Our Global Breeding Automation Engineering Team is a group of technologists passionate about creating the systems that fuel the farm of the future.

• We are reimagining and rebuilding our entire suite of field and lab technologies for the world of digital ag a world that is geospatial connected automated and cognitive.

• A world where every plant matters.

• A world where machines agronomists breeders scientists and engineers work collaboratively to deliver products that revolutionize the experience of our customers.

• Were looking for an experienced software engineer to join our Field Systems team to help create the next generation of automated R&D field equipment.

• Your responsibilities will include requirements design development test and support of our research control software systems.

• Systems capabilities include data acquisition from other hardware/software systems machine control cloud connectivity process control and user interaction.

• You will also be looked upon to be a technical leader and mentor to junior engineers.

• You will be a member of a cross functional team expected to set technical direction and organize how tasks fit into the overall project.

• This position requires a bachelors degree in computer engineering computer science electrical engineering mechanical engineering or related discipline with 4 years of demonstrable experience owning the development of automated/control systems.

Required Skills:

• Strong software development skills

• Ability to drive software development in all phases of the product lifecycle as part of a small multidisciplined engineering team.

• This includes project planning deriving requirements from system objectives organizing and prioritizing work delivering results and providing support.

• 4 years experience developing machine to machine (M2M) and electromechanical automation system software in C# C C or Python

• 4 years experience developing multithreaded/process applications/services and the common constructs and patterns associated with them.

• Excellent system (software and hardware) troubleshooting and debugging skills

• Experience with and an understanding of the value of modern development concepts and practices including OO principles unit testing agile development TDD and continuous delivery

• Experience developing networked systems that communicate with data generating devices and data aggregation and transformation services

• Experience developing with network protocols such as TCP/UDP MQTT Attention to detail and data driven decision making

• Experience with software projects that cross multiple team/company boundaries

• Experience in developing applications on multiple operating systems such as Windows Linux iOS Mac OS Android.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience developing IoT and data driven systems.

• 4 years experience developing with MS technologies such as Visual Studio .NET WPF WinForms console applications etc.

• Experience using serial communication standards such as RS422 RS485 and RS232

• Experience developing datadriven systems using relational and/or NoSQL database technologies such as Oracle SQLite PostgreSQL SQL Server MongoDB Cassandra

• Experience with and understanding of the value of modern development tools such as Git CVS Subversion Jenkins NuGet JIRA Aha and Azure DevOps

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.