Traxxas Hiring for Junior Software Engineer at McKinney, TX Full Time

Traxxas, The Fastest Name in Radio Control® is the number-one selling name in Ready-To-Race® nitro and electric radio controlled (RC) vehicles. Traxxas has been engineering and building the world’s fastest and most innovative Ready-To-Race® radio-controlled performance machines since 1986. Traxxas models are fully assembled with powerful, feature-rich radio systems and are Ready-To-Drive® in just minutes, including the 100mph Traxxas XO-1 supercar. Traxxas performance, durability, and world-class customer support all come together to deliver an award-winning radio-controlled experience that’s designed to last for years of fun.

Traxxas is looking for a talented individual to join our product SW Engineering team!

• Develop C on No-OS and RTOS embedded microcontroller firmware with very interesting peripherals and sensors doing very interesting things.
• Expand our Android and iOS applications to answer design requirements such as “the app’s dashboard has a speedometer”.
• Utilize electronics, RF, and protocols to realize product firmware objectives such as “when the driver steers left, the truck turns left”.
• Implement and debug our feedback control algorithms making our products fly.
• Apply continuous integration and test driven development to embedded systems that, literally, do not and won’t sit still.
• Use 3rd party tools and systems such as Docker, VMs, Linux/Raspbian, Windows, Jenkins, SVN, git, build essentials, and Jira, to automate development operations so the SW team spends the majority of our time on new development.
• Analyze telemetry data with statistics to solve quandaries like “why does it only go 100MPH?”

You may like this role if:

• Enjoy physics and electronics
• Willing to learn and work on whatever is needed for product development… bare metal, Android, iOS, or the Web.

When we talk with you, we will be looking for:

• EE, CS, or CE graduate or graduate to be
• Ability to read and understand C code
• Software and engineering fundamentals
• Strong engineering mindset
• Course work in software development, electronics, and physics (mechanics).