Firmware Engineer

Firmware Engineer

Key skills / experience

• The ideal candidate will have 3+ years experience developing embedded firmware.
• Fluent in the C programming language with excellent programming skills.
• Strong understanding of device level programming for microcontroller-based embedded systems.
• Experienced in device driver and board support package development.
• Familiarity with various communication busses such as UART, SPI, I2C, I2S, etc..
• Writing programs and scripts as necessary to test embedded systems.
• Hands-on experience using hardware debug instrumentation such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and protocol analyzers, debug probes.
• Debug embedded system scenarios, including interaction between firmware and a host computer via USB.
• Experience with Bluetooth or Bluetooth Low Energy application development.

Experience in some of the following areas would be beneficial but not essential:

• Experience with ARM Cortex-M MCUs.
• Knowledge of real-time operating system design and development.
• Experience with USB protocols and device classes.
• Knowledge of bootloader architectures.
• Familiar with source control system (Git, SVN, etc.)