Sr. Embedded Software Engineer

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Business Unit Overview

Novanta designs, manufactures, and markets RFID readers and accessories, machine vision, optical scanners, high-precision customized subsystems, and optical subsystems.

Summary

As an Embedded Software Design Engineer (Firmware), you will be responsible for the design, development, engineering testing, integration, and maintenance of embedded software and firmware across multiple HW platforms.

Primary Responsibilities

Embedded Software & Firmware Development

• Design and develop embedded software and firmware using C/C++
• Deliver real-time and Linux-based embedded solutions
• Maintain and enhance existing firmware platforms

System Integration & HW Interaction

• Integrate firmware with hardware components, MCUs and peripherals
• Work with drivers, bootloaders and system initialization
• Analyze and debug HW/SW interaction issues

Testing & Debugging

• Perform bring-up, verification and debugging using lab equipment
• Optimize system performance and reliability

Collaboration & Other Tasks

• Work with HW, SW, and system teams
• Support debugging and validation activities
• Follow development processes and quality standards
• Maintain technical documentation and version control

Required Experience and Skills

• Degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
• Min. 3+ years embedded software/firmware development experience
• Strong C/C++ knowledge
• Knowledge of RTOS and/or embedded Linux
• Understanding of MCU peripherals and protocols (UART, SPI, I2C, USB, Ethernet)
• Experience with versioning tools
• Strong written and spoken English skills
• Ability to read schematics and debug HW issues
• Experience with lab tools (oscilloscope, analyzers)
• Good communication and teamwork skills
• Available to support occasional business travels (max. 10%)

Nice to Have Experience and Skills

• CI/CD (Jenkins, Docker, genicam)
• Unit tests, code coverage
• System requirements (Jama)
• Task tracking (Jira)
• Customer communication
• Leveraging AI to accelerate your productivity
• Experience with Python scripting
• Experience with Linux (development and tools)
• Familiarity with development for Windows and Android platform

Benefits

• Extra week of vacation (25 days/year)
• 5 sick days per calendar year
• 1 day of paid time off for charitable activities/year
• Flexi Pass vouchers with a nominal value of 1000 CZK/month
• Contribution to supplementary pension insurance 1000 CZK/month (after the probationary period)
• Flexible working hours (core 10 – 15:00)
• Every year, wages are reassessed from 1 April
• Meal vouchers in the form of a flat rate – monetary value (129,50 CZK/day)
• Monetary allowance for working from home (max. 2 days/week)
• MultiSport for only 300 CZK/month
• Bonuses for recommending a new employee up to CZK 110,000
• Free refreshments at the workplace (juice, hot drinks – great coffee, tea; healthy snacks and fruit/vegetables 2 times a week)
• Training, language courses, career advancement
• Dog-friendly office, Family-friendly environment
• Corporate events – Summer Party, Christmas Party, Family Day, SportDay, Board Game Afternoon, Meet & Greet and more
• Free parking for employees and shower at the workplace for athletes

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