Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Architecting and implementing firmware solutions for embedded systems, including low-level drivers, communication protocols, and application logic.
• Work with product definers, hardware engineers, QA and product teams to ensure firmware compatibility with hardware designs.
• Developing comprehensive test plans and procedures to verify firmware functionality.
• Debugging hardware/firmware integration issues by utilizing debugging tools to analyze firmware behavior and troubleshoot complex problems.
• Provide ongoing maintenance and support for existing firmware, including troubleshooting, debugging and resolving issues as needed to ensure product reliability and performance.
• Mentor junior engineers and guide best practices for FW/SW development.

Required Experience and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Science or related fields.
• 8-10 years of experience in firmware development, embedded systems and related areas.
• Proficiency in C and assembly language. Experience with Python or scripting languages is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of microcontrollers, microprocessors, FPGAs, and other embedded hardware architectures,
• Experience with bare metal programming and RTOS like FreeRTOS or Zephyr.
• Experience in writing low level drivers for peripherals like UART, SPI, I2C, PWM etc.
• Knowledge of communication protocols like ZigBee and BLE.
• Proficiency in using debug tools like JTAG, GDB, oscilloscopes, Logic Analysers and other debuggers.
• Understanding of secure firmware development and firmware over-the-air updates.
• Ability to work with different version control systems like GIT, GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket.
• Experience with unit testing, system testing and integration testing. Ability to isolate issues in a system test environment.