Embedded Firmware Engineer

Job Title: Engineer

Duration: 3 months, Contract To Hire

Hours: 8:00am to 5:00pm

Location: Andover, MA

Pay Range: $75-$86/hr. (depending on experience)

In this role, the individual will develop embedded system firmware for communications protocols and IoT (Internet of Things) enabled solutions in the industry sector.

Product Development: Firmware development for POSIX-based platforms (Embedded Linux and VxWorks) for embedded-C. Develop in the context of hardware constraints and system complexity.

Prototyping & testing Industrial Communication Protocols: Test Driven Development (TDD) & Unit Testing for real-time embedded communication firmware

Research and Exploration: Evaluating stacks used for prototyping when responding to internal customer offers.

Technical Documentation: Contributing to writing detailed specifications, design documents, Build Guides, Implementation Guides, and Whitepapers based on industry standards and internal requirements.

Debugging and Troubleshooting: Debug, Analyze, and resolve complex hardware and software issues to ensure optimal system performance and security and perform unit tests.

Code Quality Enhancement: Develop high-quality, well-tested code through comprehensive unit testing and debugging.

Agile Collaboration: Actively participate in the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC), including daily standups and other agile ceremonies.

Innovation: Participate in innovative projects outside of day-to-day project execution.

Education: Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field with an emphasis on embedded systems.

Experience: At least 4-7 years of experience in embedded firmware or application development

Application Needs Understanding: Knowledge of technical specifications, code design using UML diagrams, customer application needed, and ability to convert them into functional and technical design and application.

Engineering Skills: Ability to propose and deploy new technical solutions, optimize design from the performance and cost perspective using modulization approach.

Technical Expertise: Solid foundation in C/C programming, Linux development, debugging, and development within embedded environments.

Development Environment: Proficiency in (Integrated) tools-chain for (Embedded) Software code management like Cross Compilation and Cmake.

Operating Systems: Experience working with real-time operating systems RTOS (e.g FreeRTOS or Zephyr), Real-time & multitasks firmware programming. Knowledge of Embedded System Hardware and platforms, including Embedded Linux and VxWorks. BSD sockets programming: Understanding of the key parameters to realize physical and software connectivity layers in devices.

Networking Protocol: Experience with Networking and Communications Protocols for Industrial Automation, Client/Server Application, OSI model.

Cyber-Security: Familiarity with cryptography concepts and secure features such as cryptographic key management and distribution, certificate management and PKI.

Achieve Sustainable Results: Ensure successful execution of strategies, monitor and follow-up on plans, and maintain high levels of energy in a fast-paced environment.

SDLC and Tools: Experience with the full software development lifecycle, agile methodologies (Scrum), and tools like Wireshark, Git and GitHub.

Drive for digital upskilling in technologies such as 5G, TSN.

Research Aptitude: Demonstrated ability to independently research complex technical topics, distill information, and contribute to design specifications and whitepapers.

Process Automation: Eager to explore and implement tools for enhancing efficiency through automated processes in product development and testing.