Location: Seoul, Korea, Republic of

Thales is a global technology leader trusted by governments, institutions, and enterprises to tackle their most demanding challenges. From quantum applications and artificial intelligence to cybersecurity and 6G innovation, our solutions empower critical decisions rooted in human intelligence. Operating at the forefront of aerospace and space, cybersecurity and digital identity, we’re driven by a mission to build a future we can all trust.

Since 1983, Thales has been present in the Republic of Korea and have been supporting the country’s ambitions and local industry in the defence, civil aviation, and digital identity and space sectors. Headquartered in Seoul, Thales engages in providing solutions that help customers make critical decisions for domains such as air traffic management, in-flight entertainment, space and digital security. With a strategy of strong collaboration with key industrial players, Thales is helping to build local expertise in Korea by engaging in transfer of knowledge, technology and production.

Thales Engineering Competence Centre (ECC) is a well-established R&D and engineering centre serving major customers worldwide in Digital Identity and Security domains ranging from mobile connectivity, IoT, banking & payment to government solutions.

 

As a Senior Software Engineer in Thales Embedded Product Development Team in ECC (Korea office), you will participate in the design, implementation, validation and deployment of Embedded Products for major smartphone vendors.

 

A week in the life of an Embedded Software Engineer (Korea office):

 

·        Located in Korea, the candidate will be reporting to the Embedded software maintenance and support team manager, with the core team located in Singapore.

·        Expected to work closely with local customer and front-end team, to provide responsive support to customer requests in solving technical issues and answering technical enquires.

·        Develop, validate and deploy software components (for example advance software security mechanism and next generation connectivity protocols) for embedded operating systems targeted for mobile devices, in applications such as mobile payment, digital identity and mobile connectivity

·        Participate to the development of next generation operating systems for future devices

·        Being in agile development environment to work closely within team and multiple teams around the world to build great products exceeding customer expectations

·        Contribute to continuous product and development methodology improvement

·        Extensive training on the product, software and process will be provided. You are expected to travel to Singapore multiple times in extended periods to attend trainings and work with Singapore R&D teams.

 

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

 

·        Degree in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering, or related fields

·        Minimum 10 years working experience in software development, with strong problem solving and debugging skills. Proficient in Embedded C/Java programming languages.

·        Professional experience within embedded software development area

·        Knowledge and experience in embedded technologies/ecosystem, for example:

o       Microcontroller programming

o       Low level protocols like SPI, UART, I2C

o       Device driver programming

·        Experience in testing and debugging embedded devices using dedicated emulators or simulators

·        Knowledge in smartcard, embedded software security or Javacard is a plus

·        Excellent front end customer support experience with presentation and problem solving activities at customer premise.

·        Fluent communication skills in both English and Korean.

·        Team player with good communications and collaborative skills, ability to work independently and being proactive.

·        Knowledge of embedded technologies/ecosystem, software security or Javacard knowledge is a plus

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