Lead Software Developer IoT & Edge, Digital Solutions - #2110028

MacGregor is a global company that operates in 30 countries with 2000 employees. We provide sustainable cargo and load handling with a strong portfolio of products, services, and solutions to the maritime and offshore industries. Our solutions are found in over half of the world's merchant fleet.

We believe MacGregor is a great place to work and we are looking for innovators with an international mindset to join our team and help us create lifetime value for our customers.

MacGregor – Let's shape the future together

Our company is undergoing an exciting transformation that aims at creating and delivering lifetime value for our customers. Digital products and services are at the heart of this transformation, playing a critical role in driving innovation and delivering exceptional customer experiences.

Now we are looking for you to support us with your expertise working on the IoT and Edge related code infrastructure. You will be the one responsible to translate ideas into actual code, ensuring secure and reliable connections and dealing with all the challenges that arise from the fact that vessels are moving around the whole world.

Acting within the digital development team, you will be surrounded by enthusiastic and talented colleagues, always believing the best results can be reached by an open and collaborative team. You’ll be asked to contribute to finding solutions of all kinds and developing our vision together, using all your creativity, expertise and experience. You will gain a team you can trust on, giving you all the support necessary so together we can shape MacGregor’s future in the digital maritime landscape.

More Tasks And Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain machine-to-cloud connectivity for industrial IoT equipment using various protocols.
• Design and implement an edge software architecture under given hardware, connectivity and environmental constraints
• Collaborate with our full-stack developers, set up an automated CI/CD pipeline for the IoT related software part and follow agile best practices for continuous development
• Develop a new cost efficient retrofit IoT solution to roll out to the installed base of MacGregor equipment
• Select the ideal hardware and, together with our equipment engineering teams, also the right sensors to gather the right data and transfer it towards our cloud consistently 24/7
• Design, implement and maintain time series databases to buffer the data on the edge
• Ensure compliance with Cyber Security regulations and customer requirements, and implement methods to monitor and ensure secure operations
• Operate an infrastructure of services to manage, update and troubleshoot our fleet of devices and implement diagnostic metrics, and ensure our solution follows a plug & play philosophy
  
  

This role is part of our Global Services Division. Reporting directly to the Digital Product Manager, Digital Development. This position can be based in Sweden, Germany, Finland or any other MacGregor location in Europe.

What You’ll Need To Succeed

• Preferably 4+ years of experience developing software for IoT systems, including edge or embedded systems and proficiency in at least one relevant programming language (e.g. Rust,C/C++/QT, Go, Python or equivalent)
• Advanced Linux administration and shell scripting skills
• Knowledge of networking stack and configuration, as well as experience with use, maintenance and troubleshooting of wireless technology like GSM, LTE, 5G, LoraWAN, Starlink or Industrial Wifi related to IoT projects
• experience with IoT specific protocols, like MQTT, OPCUA, Modbus, CANbus, Ethernet/IP
• Experience with cloud IoT platforms and remote management systems (e.g. AWS IoT, Mender, Teamviewer)
• Basic knowledge of cyber security best practices and regulations for industrial IoT environments
• Additional good-to-have experience:
• Golden Image creation, OTA updating for OS & applications
• Yocto or Buildroot and Firmware development
• Hardware and sensor prototyping
• Operation of Machine Learning inference on the edge
• Experience with design, implementation and maintenance of time series databases and relational / non relational databases
• Competence using Docker or other containerization solutions
• Collaborative, empathetic, passionate about solving complex challenges, continuously learning something new, and incorporating feedback
• Good ability to communicate the complex technical context to various, non-technical stakeholders, and vice versa translate business requirements into technical concepts
• Proficiency in spoken and written English is required
• Ability to travel occasionally as the team and customers are spread across the Europe
  
  

Why MacGregor?

Our people are behind every success. People create the technology and product lifecycle solutions that make us great, our people are the ones who innovate, and people drive our business forward. With us you will be part of an international collaborative working culture with challenges and opportunities to further develop yourself professionally. We enable sustainable global maritime operations by maximizing efficiency in cargo and load handling.

Values guide our work

• Integrity steers all our thinking, behaviour and the relationships with our customers and other stakeholders
• Quality is valued in our processes, products and services and helps to improve our customers’ performance and our own competences
• Safety is essential in everything we do
  
  

MacGregor is an equal opportunity employer. We recognise that diversity is key to our continued success, and strive to maintain a fair and equitable recruitment process for all applicants.

Additional Information

Do you have questions regarding the role? Please contact Tim Bischoff, Digital Product Manager at [email protected].

Kindly note that we will only review CVs and applications submitted in English through our recruitment portal. Unfortunately we do not consider CVs sent per email.

If you are ready to step into an exciting new role where you can make a significant impact and contribute to the success of MacGregor, apply today!

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