Embedded Firmware Engineer

Role:  Embedded Firmware Engineer,

Location: Seattle, WA (Onsite)

Summary

As a Principal Embedded Firmware Engineer, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership to a multi-disciplinary team, including other firmware, hardware, software, and mobile developers. As a Principal level, you will be expected to have knowledge across disciplines and able to guide overall system optimization, security, and reliably. The ability to be responsive, flexible, and communicate clearly, both technical and non-technical, will be critical to your success in this role.

You will participate in the design, integration, and improvement of the FW stacks for the main computational board embedded in our devices. This includes designing and implementing a wide range of low-level embedded software on our hardware platform, including device drivers, communication protocols, security requirements, refactoring and porting existing code, and other low-level programming activities.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Passion for providing a great customer experience in all of our products through the quality and usability of released firmware
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent required.
• 10 years of Firmware development experience.
• 6 years of providing design leadership within a technical team
• C and embedded SW development expertise.
• Experience with low-level device-to-platform communication including UDP, ProtoBufs, and binary packed messages.
• Experience with interfacing and developing web applications for device interaction, testing, and management.
• Excellent communication skills with internal technical teams, internal business teams, and external partners.
• Experience using Git source control management system.
• Solid understanding of end-to-end SW development toolchains and environments.
• Experience with assembly level development on microcontrollers such as AVR, MSP430, and Arm Cortex series.
• Hands-on experience in working with embedded RTOS such as FreeRTOS, ThreadX, or other MCU level operating systems.
• Hands-on experience in working with Linux-based devices.
• Hands-on experience in developing BSP for Linux and or Android-based devices.
• Linux kernel and driver development experience required.
• Experience working in both prototyping and formal product development environments.
• Understanding of security issues related to deployments of typical network applications and protocols.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
• Experience on ARM multi-core processors.
• Experience with extremely battery efficient designs
• Experience with Java, Spring Boot, MQTT, Docker, AWS or Azure IoT
• Experience with navigation sensors such as IMUs, GPS, and other location services
• Knowledge of wireless BLE 4.0 protocols, TCP/IP networking, understand 802.11 protocol
• Experience working with cellular modems and modules
• Ability to understand schematics for embedded portions of hardware and provide technical review and build BSP files.