Principal Firmware Engineer

Insight Global
Westlake Village, United States of America
4 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 15K

Job location

Westlake Village, United States of America

Tech stack

Clean Code Principles
Board Bringup
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Application Testing
JIRA
Software Bug Management
CMake
Computer Programming
Software Debugging
Embedded C
Firmware
FreeRTOS
Joint Test Action (IEEE Standards)
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Visio
Software Tools
Serial Communications
PIC Microcontroller
GIT
GNU Operating System

Job description

Insight Global is seeking an experienced Principal Firmware Engineer to join a 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.

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

  • Firmware Engineer background with 4-year college degree or equivalent years of experience

  • 5+ years Firmware Engineering design experience

  • Strong embedded C programming skills,

  • Experience setting up and utilizing operating system (Zephyr preferred; FreeRTOS )

  • Experience with 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

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

  • ARM Processors experience desired

  • Experienced in hardware bring-up * Experience coding applications using radio communications including cellular

  • Experienced with device productization and launch

  • Ability to travel overseas approximately 10% of the time

  • Understanding IoT architecture a plus

  • General understanding of power management / optimization

  • Working knowledge of product development processes, gates and execution

Benefits & conditions

Compensation: up to $210k (based on experience) + $10k-$15k sign-on bonus + Benefits

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