Sr Firmware Engineer

Be part of a team that designs and develops embedded firmware for market leading controls for global residential comfort applications.

You will partner with world class engineers and leaders. Use your strategic thinking to help anticipate problems, recognize and eliminate barriers.

JOB DUTIES INCLUDE:

• Work on all aspects of complex embedded software development projects – design, development, review, and test. You will have clear accountability to drive innovation utilizing new technologies in hardware, software, and emerging wireless communication protocols (ex: Wi-Fi, BLE, ZigBee, proprietary RF protocols, etc.).
• Collaborate closely with a team of highly motivated peers. You will contribute and provide technical leadership, mentorship, as well as coordination with project planning and execution.
• Design great products – novel in capability, exceptional in quality, and always delivering an end-to-end 5-star customer experience.
• Design and develop embedded software/firmware for Connected Home products.
• Collaborate with partners in Marketing and other stakeholders to gather and break down non-technical and technical requirements into well-defined tasks.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams (systems, hardware, test, quality) to produce architecturally sound designs, contribute to hardware selection, design test plans, and coordinate delivery of software modules, applications, and documentation. Cultivate 3rd party vendor relationships as needed.
• Evaluate new technologies as they apply to existing functions. Offer peer technical assessments in areas of expertise, new technologies, software designs and assist as needed with component datasheet/schematic design review.
• Research technical problems and implement appropriate algorithm solutions.
• Explore tools and techniques and contribute to efforts that benefit firmware design, development, testing and management.

YOU MUST HAVE:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering
• Extensive skill set in embedded firmware development using C and/or C++ programming language.
• Strong knowledge of embedded software and embedded product development
• Experience in writing firmware for embedded devices
• Experience of Technical Leadership for Project subtasks or small projects
• Demonstrated ability to plan and organize complex technical projects. Experience in process design.
• Experience with software development environments such as Visual Studio and IAR Embedded Workbench (i.e. including compiling, linking, loading, and executing)
• Experience with standard libraries and multithreaded programming with RTOS's like ThreadX, FreeRTOS, Linux, etc.
• Experience with designing well-architected software systems/modules.
• Experience with software management tools like SVN, Bitbucket, JIRA, and requirements management tools like Contour.
• Able to decompose functional requirements into well-defined tasks while balancing quality, quantity and complexity in work output.
• Knowledge of embedded hardware and components
• Strong firmware debugging techniques and usage of tools like trace analyser and JTAG
• Experience of using lab tools (i.e. multimeter, oscilloscopes, logic analyser)

WE VALUE:

• Relevant experience in home automation products and residential market
• Experience working in Agile Scrum teams
• Solid communication, collaborative and interpersonal skills with the ability to work and relate well with others, including communication to Management and Senior Leadership.
• Experience with ARM Cortex-A and Cortex-M processors.
• Experience with Data structures, Multi-threaded programming, Object Oriented programming, Networking concepts, Network Security.
• Experience with wireless data communications technologies, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and/or ZigBee.
• Familiarity with cryptographic concepts public key cryptography, certificates
• Experience with embedded Linux environments such as Raspberry PI