An employer is looking for a highly skilled hybrid firmware engineer to join one of our largest national clients for a contract-to-hire opportunity. In this role you'll join a growing team, and work to support connected thermostats. This is an iOT product connected to the cloud, therefore any prior experience working with connected devices like thermostats will help you be successful on this team. This team is focused on supporting real time operating systems connected to Wi-Fi. You will not need to develop the Wi-Fi module but will be supporting the connected layer of the thermostat on this team.
Responsibilities:
-Work on all aspects 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.
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-Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering
-5+ years of 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
-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)
-Experience with software development environments such as Visual Studio and IAR Embedded Workbench (i.e. including compiling, linking, loading, and executing)
-Experience working within the middle layer / application layer
-Ability to integrate and develop new features within a product
-Ability to commute to the Golden Valley location 3x/week as this team works in a hybrid model
-Relevant experience in home automation products and residential market
-Experience working in Agile Scrum teams
-Experience with standard libraries and multithreaded programming with RTOS's like ThreadX, FreeRTOS, Linux, etc.
-Experience with wireless data communications technologies, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and/or ZigBee.
-Solid communication, collaborative and interpersonal skills with the ability to work and relate well with others
-Experience with ARM Cortex-A and Cortex-M processors.
-Experience with software management tools like SVN, Bitbucket, JIRA, and requirements management tools like Contour.
-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.
-Experience with designing well-architected software systems/modules.
-Able to decompose functional requirements into well-defined tasks while balancing quality, quantity and complexity in work output.
-Familiarity with cryptographic concepts public key cryptography, certificates
-Experience with embedded Linux environments such as Raspberry PI
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.