Staff Engineer, Firmware Development

Responsibilities: Lead the development of firmware components for the Engineering organization. Lead and collaborate with engineers to design, plan, develop, and maintain embedded firmware components for the Firmware Engineering team. Serve as the technical lead for larger projects, establishing technical direction and monitoring project management metrics. Provide leadership in design, development, documentation, and unit testing. Develop specifications, including functional requirements, detailed design, code, and test procedures as part of an agile and iterative SDP team. Identify technical areas for improvement and make detailed business cases for new areas of opportunity within the company’s firmware products. Provide support, troubleshoot, and resolve sustaining issues with high quality output and develop and unit test features in the company’s software products. Conduct code reviews with the team to improve compliance with established best practices and coding standards and provide detailed and accurate estimates for code development efforts. Optimize code to meet embedded constraints (RAM, ROM, and processor time) and utilize component datasheets, such as non-volatile memory devices, microcontrollers, and DSP’s. Use emulators, oscilloscopes, and various other firmware and software testing equipment and apply knowledge of C and assembly programming, debugging, and scripting languages. Work with various software packages such as revision control and issue tracking to ensure on-time delivery and quality adherence for all firmware development projects.