Senior Firmware Engineer

Generac 

📍 Reno, United States 🇺🇸

full-time
senior
Expired
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Key Skills

microcontrollersfirmwareCC++interface

Industry

Consumer ElectronicsIndustrial Automation

Job Description

Roles And Responsibilities

  • Provide new product development support, specific to microprocessors/microcontrollers in the Industrial, Commercial, Residential and/or Retail generator or Power Tool product area.
  • Designs, validates, and brings new products to market - specific responsibilities include designing and developing application software/firmware for embedded controllers in C, defining interface requirements, and creating firmware for communication interfaces and/or system algorithms
  • Design of new control algorithms and performing Applications Engineering
  • Develop new firmware or software modules, and maintain supporting documentation;
  • Create, design and develop test specifications for new systems and firmware/software.
  • Conducts and evaluates test specification including testing firmware/hardware
  • Take part in Design for Manufacturability and Design for Test Activities
  • Collaborates with internal product development departments, and other core engineering teams such including engines, transfer switch's, alternators, and others as needed to specify interfaces and/or algorithms needed in controls for interface.
  • Utilizes simulation tools as appropriate
  • Creates and/or modifies design documentation
  • Help troubleshoot designs
  • Participate in design reviews
  • Mentors less experienced engineers
  • Other duties as assigned; anticipate less than 10%

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or directly related Engineering discipline
  • 5 years of experience with embedded programming using languages such as C, C++,C#

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

  • Ability to perform detail-oriented work with a high degree of accuracy;
  • Ability to translate technical information to all audiences;
  • Expert level understanding and knowledge engineering principles;
  • Able to solve intermediate engineering problems; good decision-making skills;
  • Expert level knowledge of communication protocols/hardware interface;
  • Expert ability to write test firmware to test hardware designs
  • Advanced ability to use FMEA/DFMEA tools