Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer

Role overview

Duties and responsibilities

• Develop reliable embedded firmware using microcontrollers, sensors, and analog or digital interface circuits.
• Assess marketing requirements and shape them into producible, cost-effective products.
• Collaborate with firmware, software, and hardware team members on products and applications.
• Support products through release to manufacturing and participate in defining system functional requirements.
• Research and adapt technologies for future product enhancements.
• Protect intellectual property through patent disclosures and applications.

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university.
• At least five years of embedded firmware programming and hands-on C programming for embedded systems.
• At least five years of microcontroller-based design, analog and digital interfacing, and real-time systems experience.
• At least five years of experience with interrupts, threads, scheduling, semaphores, and state machines, with and without an RTOS.
• At least five years of experience with Ethernet, I2C, RS232, RS485, and SPI communication protocols and topologies.
• At least two years of experience with one or more wireless technologies and mesh protocols, such as Zigbee, Thread, Bluetooth, or Wi-SUN.
• At least two years of experience with one or more messaging protocols, such as MQTT, CoAP, LwM2M, or 6LoWPAN.

Preferred qualifications and position criteria

• Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related bachelor’s degree is preferred.
• Agile development, Git/source control, embedded-device security, Python test harnesses, and geographically dispersed team experience are preferred.
• Expertise in firmware engineering methodologies and strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and independent-work abilities.