We have partnered with a global industrial electrical manufacturing company in Highland, IL area to provide them with a Senior Firmware Engineer. Please review the below description and let us know if you are interested.

Prioritized must haves for the Senior Firmware Engineer:

#1 Must have experience with C and C programming language and development with embedded Linux

#2. Must have a bachelor's degree in, computer engineering, or electric engineering with embedded firmware experience

#3. No more than 3 jobs in the last 10 years.

Responsibilities of the Senior Firmware Engineer:

• Good communicative capabilities to supply technical advice and information to others.
• Supervise other firmware engineers and technicians assigned to a particular job or project.
• Create, modify, and maintain firmware for new and revised products.
• Develop and track schedules for firmware development or revisions.
• Programs in C/C and other high level languages.
• Assists in the development of programming standards and practices.
• Identifies, develops justifications for, and uses software development tools such as assemblers, compilers, emulators, etc.
• Works with Design Engineer and/or Project Leader during the development of a new or revised designs.
• Assist in the development of the definition of the software requirements, objectives, and modules for new or revised designs.
• Assist in the development of new embedded architecture, security features and driver level firmware.
• Performs or assists others in software testing, or establishing software testing requirements.
• Works with customers, users, and others to develop software operating requirements or to troubleshoot/debug existing problems. This includes travel when required.
• Assist in the training of the software operation of new or revised design.
• Assist Technical Writer in writing manuals and other publications as they relate to software.
• Develops and/or direct device communications standards, software programs, and hardware requirements.
• Estimate Engineering effort and material required on jobs or proposals being quoted.
• Performs other duties as assigned

Requirements of the Senior Firmware Engineer:

• BSCE, BSEE or equivalent plus 6 years firmware design experience preferred.
• Working knowledge of software version control tools such as svn or Git.
• Working knowledge of Linux operating system, networking and multithreaded execution systems.
• Working knowledge of C/C and object orient programming.
• Working knowledge of communication hardware. i.e. Ethernet, USB, I2C and SPI.
• Working knowledge of electrical test equipment. i.e. oscilloscope, multi-meter.
• Working knowledge of embedded micro controller systems.
• Familiarity with XML and JSON schema.
• Familiarity with third party code integration.
• Computer skills including Microsoft Word, Excel & Powerpoint.
• Ability to speak and write in clear understandable manner.
• Ability to exchange and furnish information requiring detailed explanation and discussions with customers and various levels of personnel.
• Travel as required for training, support of project tasks, product issues, or other design or job related needs.

Other Key Requirements:

• In office role.
• No sponsorships or visa holders. No Corp-to-Corp.

Benefits of the Senior Firmware Engineer:

• Medical, Vision and Dental benefits
• Paid Time Off
• 401K

About Relevante, Inc. the Recruiting Firm Representing the Client for this Job

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