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# Embedded Software Engineer

- **Company:** The Fountain Group
- **Location:** Burlington, MA, United States
- **Salary:** $228,800.0 - $257,920.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Confluence, JIRA, Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth), Software Quality, Code Review, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, Embedded Software, FreeRTOS, Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT), X.509, Scrum Methodology, Software Engineering, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter, Wi-Fi Technology, Transport Layer Security, Serial Peripheral Interface, Git, Bitbucket
- **Published:** June 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thefountaingroup.com/job/16445/onsite_role_embedded_software_engineer_in_burlington_ma

## About the Role

* 15+ years of relevant industry experience with a Bachelor's degree, or 10+ years with a Master's, or equivalent experience.
 * Advanced proficiency in C/C++ for embedded software, development on FreeRTOS, low level peripheral driver integration (I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO, Client, PWM, LCD, LED), and/or embedded IoT (BLE, WiFi, MQTT, TLS, DHCP, TCP, UDP, GATT, X.509)

Preferred Skills

 * Background in consumer electronics or appliance software development.
 * Experience with Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum) and tools such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Git.

## Description

* Participate in the full software development lifecycle: requirements gathering, architecture and design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
 * Lead code reviews, provide critical feedback, and elevate team code quality.
 * Support growth of junior engineers with active mentoring and by modeling mature software engineering practices through the normal course of business


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