Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders and peer engineers to understand system functional requirements, and translate into actionable development plans. Manage derivative technical requirements accordingly.
• Architect, design and develop modular embedded solutions for IoT applications in partnership with mobile and cloud engineers.
• Validate developed firmware on the bench at unit, component and light system test levels.
• Set design direction for embedded applications using industry best practices, processes, and toolchains.
• Work with quality and software engineering counterparts to analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve firmware defects.
• Provide peer review feedback via pull request and review meetings for system and embedded designs.
• Create application SDKs for the embedded platform for integration with customer products and use cases.
• Create tools to facilitate firmware development, such as test harnesses and embedded debugging applications.
• Supervise a small group of nearshore and offshore engineers to prioritize work and manage execution risk.
• Run static and dynamic analysis on existing and new designs to validate integrity of firmware applications.
• Develop unit tests for firmware applications.

Experience

• 7+ years job related experience
• SDLC experience with IoT/connected firmware applications, including firmware upgrade
• Experience with low level driver usage and application - I2C, EEPROM, SPI, UART, CAN, etc
• Familiarity with IOT protocols including MQTT
• Experience with BLE, Zigbee, Wi-Fi, LoRa or other wireless technologies
• Experience developing with a variety of operating systems for memory constrained applications.
• Experience with encryption technologies and a plus.
• Configuration of CI/CD pipelines for embedded, source control integrations.

Skills

• C/C++
• Embedded Linux (optional)
• Static and dynamic analysis
• Operating Systems - freeRTOS, ThreadX, bare metal, etc
• Event and scheduled driven design
• Stress, soak, and reliability testing of firmware applications
• Strong systems understanding and troubleshooting intuition
• Strong analytical and communication skills