Sr Firmware Engineer

Client is seeking an experienced Firmware Engineer to join our team of engineers, to develop and drive innovative products in the consumer and healthcare marketspace. Lead team members to forge and maintain a close working relationship with external contractors, suppliers, and vendors. Participate in the firmware team contributions to the product concepting process with cross-disciplined engineering teams by way of focus on Industrial Design, User Experience and Sustainability. This role will be full time based out of Westlake Village, CA.

Responsibilities

Provides technical leadership and owns firmware in products within the Company’s portfolio, able to drive product development activities independently and with minimal supervision

Responsible for the overall firmware architecture of product development

Write and contribute high-quality code, including new features and bug fixes, to our repository

Write test applications, programs, formal requirements, and relevant documentation

Analyze systems and provide software support

Estimate time required for coding tasks based on requirements and ensure timely follow-through on assignments

Collaborate with the testing team to promptly identify and repair any bugs

Maintain the strict and confidentiality of sensitive information

Perform other job-related duties as required

Requirements and skills

Firmware Engineer background with 4-year college degree

7+ years Firmware Engineering design experience

Strong embedded C programming skills, ARM Processors desired

Experience setting up and utilizing operating system such as FreeRTOS and Zephyr

Experience with common software development tools like WSL, IDEs (VS Code), West, CMake, GNU, GIT, Jira, etc.

Experience working electronic hardware, microcontrollers, serial communications (USART/I2C/SPI), embedded design, low level debugging using JTAG and similar tools

Can read and understand schematics

Experienced in hardware bring-up

Experienced with device productization and launch

Experience coding applications using radio communications including cellular

General understanding of power management / optimization

Understanding IoT architecture a plus

Working knowledge of product development processes, gates and execution

Expert comprehension of Microsoft tools (Teams, Excel, Visio, Project and Word)

Ability to travel overseas approximately 10% of the time