Firmware Software Engineer

Company Description

Fortune Top 10 companies in the world

Job Description

Title : Firmware Software Engineer IV

Location  : Redmond, WA (ON-SITE job)

Nature of employment : 12+ months- potential for extension up to 2 years

Direct client

Internal job id: FT0841

Summary:

The main function of a firmware engineer in this role is to apply the principles of computer science and mathematical analysis to the design, development, and testing to develop firmware enabling embedded systems to meet customer requirements. A typical firmware software engineer researches, designs, develops and tests embedded software working with other Firmware engineers as well as engineers from other disciplines.

Job Responsibilities:

• Architect, design, implement, and test software enabling customers to meet their goals.

• Gather requirements from customers and break into tasks for execution.

• Create unit-tests to ensure software is always meeting quality needs.

• Work with Electrical, Firmware, and Software engineers to define solutions.

Skills:

• Verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, customer service and interpersonal skills.

• Strong ability to work independently and manage one’s time.

• Mentoring skills necessary to provide support and constructive performance feedback.

• Strong knowledge of the full software development lifecycle: from business/systems analysis, through requirements gathering and functional specification authoring, to development, testing and delivery.

• Strong ability to troubleshoot issues and make system changes as needed to resolve issue.

• Strong knowledge of C/C++

• Experience with peripherals such as USB, SPI, MIPI CSI/DSI, I2C, UART, GPIO etc.

• Experience producing production quality, fail-safe firmware for low-power real-time system control

• Experience with wireless and wired communication protocols, including USB, TCP/IP, Ethernet, Bluetooth and 802.11

• Experience with embedded micro-controllers like ARM Cortex M0/M3/M4 architecture and boot mechanism, interrupt priorities and experience with configuring peripherals

Candidate Requirements

● Top 3 must-have HARD skills:

1 Strong knowledge of the full software development lifecycle: from business/systems analysis, through requirements gathering and functional specification authoring, to development, testing and delivery.

2 Strong ability to troubleshoot issues and make system changes as needed to resolve issue.

3 Strong knowledge of C/C++

Good to have skills:

1. Experience with peripherals such as USB, SPI, MIPI CSI/DSI, I2C, UART, GPIO etc.

2. Experience producing production quality, fail-safe firmware for low-power real-time system control

3. Experience with wireless and wired communication protocols, including USB, TCP/IP, Ethernet, Bluetooth and 802.11

AND

Experience with embedded micro-controllers like ARM Cortex M0/M3/M4 architecture and boot mechanism, interrupt priorities and experience with configuring peripherals

- Years of experience: 8+ years of experience.

Qualifications

C/C++, USB, SPI, MIPI CSI/DSI, I2C, UART, GPIO

Additional Information

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