Firmware Engineer (Zephyr)

Post Date

Mar 10, 2025

Location

Redmond,
Washington

ZIP/Postal Code

98052
US
May 14, 2025 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract

Category

Electrical Engineering

Req #

SEA-767817

Pay Rate

$64 - $80 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

The main function of a firmware software engineer is to apply the principles of computer science and mathematical analysis to the design, development, testing, and evaluation of the embedded software and systems that our devices work.

Job Responsibilities:
Analyze, design, develop, and debug firmware
Develop, prepare, and support embedded SW for demos
Understand and implement power-management, boot loaders, scheduling, and RTOS
Collaborate in a team environment across multiple , product focused, research, and engineering disciplines

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Required Skills & Experience

Experience with software design and programming in C/C++ for development, debugging, testing and performance analysis
Experience working with real-time operations systems such as Zephyr or FreeRTOS.
Experience producing production quality, fail-safe firmware for low-power real-time system control
Experience with embedded processors like ARM Cortex M0/M3/M4 architecture and boot mechanism, interrupt priorities and experience with configuring peripherals
Experience with peripherals such as USB, SPI, MIPI CSI/DSI, I2C, UART, GPIO etc.
Experience analyzing hardware and power consumption
Experience with hardware, clock-level issues, bridges, delays, interrupts, clock gating, polling etc.
Experience with instrumentation like oscilloscopes, logic/protocol analyzers for debugging embedded systems at HW level
Experience with device documentation and translating that information into software solutions
Experience with methods of designing experiments to diagnose embedded hardware and firmware problems
Experience with cross multi-disciplinary boundaries to drive system solutions

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.