Principal Firmware Engineer

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

• 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

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