Senior Software Engineer

Posting Start Date: 8/4/25

Job Location (Short): Tucson, Arizona, USA, 85706

Requisition ID: 30944

Onsite or Remote: Onsite Position

Komatsu is an indispensable partner to the construction, mining, forestry, forklift, and industrial machinery markets, maximizing value for customers through innovative solutions. With a diverse line of products supported by our advanced IoT technologies, regional distribution channels, and a global service network, we tap into the power of data and technology to enhance safety and productivity while optimizing performance. Komatsu supports a myriad of markets, including housing, infrastructure, water, pipeline, minerals, automobile, aerospace, electronics, and medical, through its many brands and subsidiaries, including Joy, P&H, Montabert, Modular Mining Systems, Hensley Industries, NTC, and Gigaphoton.

We're more than a company, and we're a community of passionate, creative professionals striving toward a shared vision: revolutionizing the way the mining industry operates. With a presence stretching from Johannesburg to Vancouver, Sydney to Lima, you are part of a global brand that supports creativity, fosters innovation, and encourages you to think big, share ideas and be yourself.

The Company

Modular Mining Systems is the global leader in mine management technology and a wholly owned subsidiary of Komatsu Ltd. Our innovative technology powers mine operations in every corner of the globe. The products we cultivate, the solutions we engineer, and the service we deliver set us apart in the Mining Technology industry. We're more than a company, we're a community of passionate, creative professionals striving toward a shared vision: to revolutionize the way the mining industry operates. With a presence stretching from Johannesburg to Vancouver, Sydney to Lima, you are part of a global brand that supports creativity, fosters innovation, and encourages you to think big, share ideas, and be yourself.

Job Purpose

This team uses advanced embedded systems knowledge to increase synergies between multi-disciplinary teams in charge of bringing up new application software, hardware and communication products to market. Our team enables the use of advanced communication, security and edge computing technologies in order to meet the very demanding 24/7 real-time mine environment. Embedded Systems and Communication also provides platform and edge solutions aligned with industry trends for enabling a SoA ecosystem with DevOps principles.

Travel Requirements

no more than 10%

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Each day will present you with new challenges and opportunities to test and grow your skills. As a Software Engineer - Embedded in Modular, you will be responsible for the following:

Participate on a team in charge of enabling "Mining 4.0" with the use of Intellimine Sinergy Solutions Understand Modular applications domain and pro-actively interacting with product teams to improve functional and nonfunctional aspects of platform components. Research, build and maintain Linux purpose-build distributions for dedicated highly reliable embedded Hardware, based on industry good practices. Research, select, design, and maintain DevOps automotive-grade solutions. Conduct research, evaluation, proof of concept, design, development and support of products using emerging technologies for communication, security, containers and edge computing. Produce and maintain high quality, tested and efficient code, following industry standards. Required Skills Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent. 5+ Years of experience working with Embedded Linux Systems, Device Drivers and Board Support Packages for GNU/Linux and/or Windows based systems. Experience with building and customizing Yocto, Debian Linux, buildroot DD-WRT, OpenWRT or similar customizable distributions. Excellent coding skills in at least one major programming language, preferably C/C++, Python, Rust or Java. Knowledge of GNU/Linux Internals and Kernel Development on x86 and/or arm hardware platforms. Demonstrated problem-solving ability and attention to details. Strong analytical, written, and interpersonal skills. Desired Skills Experience with version control using Git and Azure DevOps Server, as well as branching strategies such as Git Flow. Experience with requirements elicitation and system level analysis. Strong written and interpersonal skills, ability to effectively interact with local and offshore development teams. Core programming knowledge on multi-threading, garbage collector, advanced debugging, and memory profiling. Good grasp of testing and debugging techniques for platform code, device drivers and communication protocols. Embedded software and firmware development. Advanced knowledge on TCP/IP and networking protocols. Experience with DevOps, CI/CD practices and Agile development processes. Experience with some of the container solutions & frameworks such as Docker, Kubernetes.

Komatsu is an Equal Opportunity Workplace and an Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.