What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Firmware Engineer position at Itron, Inc.?
The Staff. Embedded Firmware Engineer will be involved in many different aspects of the product life-cycle, ranging from product specification through Embedded Firmware design and validation. Successful candidates will have a proven record of delivering high quality embedded Firmware features within aggressive time frames. The ability to understand system concepts, hardware interfaces, and prior technical leadership experience is strongly desired.
Duties & Responsibilities
Travel: 10 - 20%
Physical Demands: This is a typical office job, with no special physical requirements or unusual work environment.
Itron is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, medical condition, veteran status, disability, genetic information or other characteristics protected by law. If you require an accommodation in order to apply to this position, please contact your local recruiting representative at 1-800-635-5461 or email Accessibility@itron.com.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Participate in the project planning process.
- Provide guidance and complex subject matter training to lesser experienced team members.
- Design and develop formal specifications of products and participate in system development phases.
- Develop engineering level documentation and resource requirements.
- Lead or participate in requirements gathering.
- Design, develop, implement and troubleshoot application and system level Embedded Firmware in a variety of programming languages.
- Provide written and oral communications to peers, customers and management staff as appropriate.
- Determine forms, procedures and other documentation needed for the installation and maintenance of application programs.
- Provide solutions to a variety of technical problems of moderate scope and moderate to high complexity and is proficient with sound engineering principles.
- Investigate new technologies.
- Work with embedded Linux and associated package tools such as Perl/Shell scripts.
- Provide excellent written and oral communication with emphasis on listening to others needs
- To work in fast paced environment while competing tasks and assigned duties
- Strong Embedded Firmware development practices and experience providing clear functional descriptions for product operation
- This position requires 5 yrs of related experience
- Embedded Linux (server level, kernel or driver level)
- Strong C, C coding skills
- Experience with embedded systems
- Experience with Network protocols
- Solid experience of various RTOS
- Hardware integration and debugging utilizing JTAG emulators, oscilloscope, logic and protocol analyzers.
- I/O interfaces, peripherals, and system components: GPIO, I2C, SPI, QSPI, USB, SDMMC, DDR, DMA, NAND.
Travel: 10 - 20%
Physical Demands: This is a typical office job, with no special physical requirements or unusual work environment.
Itron is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, medical condition, veteran status, disability, genetic information or other characteristics protected by law. If you require an accommodation in order to apply to this position, please contact your local recruiting representative at 1-800-635-5461 or email Accessibility@itron.com.
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