Senior Firmware Engineer

Company: RON SUNSHINE ASSOCIATES, LLC
Location: Somerville
Posted on: September 17, 2023

Job Description:

As a Senior Firmware engineer, you will work closely with not only your other team members but across all engineering teams to drive our products from conception to completion. You will regularly flex your creative and technical problem-solving abilities to define, implement, and test embedded firmware for our current and future products. Being successful in this role means that you can keep up with fast-paced and exciting timelines while also making informed, practical, reliable, and cost-effective design decisions. This position will report to the Lead Firmware Engineer.Responsibilities:

• Work with firmware and electrical leadership to architect elegant firmware solutions for current and future products and subsystems.
• Write and maintain firmware requirement specifications throughout all product development stages.
• Own and drive the development of new source code, functionalities, enhancements, and bug fixes for our products.
• Hold design reviews of your source code and resolve issues after receiving feedback.
• Participate in and support design reviews hosted by other engineers on related projects.
• Collaborate with test engineering to write procedures and test scripts for your source code.
• Obtain/maintain a working knowledge of the major EV communication protocols and relevant software safety standards for consumer products.
• Support other firmware engineers in the design, implementation, testing, and debugging of firmwareRequirements:
  • Candidates must have:
  • At least eight years of experience with bare metal or OS kernel C or C++ including some experience on 32-bit or 64-bit architectures (ARM preferred)
  • At least two years of Python (or other higher-level languages) experience
  • Board-level Communication Protocol experience (I2C, SPI, TWI, one-wire, etc.)
  • TCP / IP experience
  • Experience with u-boot (or other bootloader)
  • Experience with yocto, or other embedded Linux distro
  • Automated testing experience (unit testing, integration testing, test-driven development, etc.)
  • Continuous Integration/Deployment experience
  • Ability to read PCB schematics. Basic level understanding of PCB layout
  • Can operate benchtop test equipment (oscilloscope, logic analyzer, power supplies, etc.)Additional Plus Experience:
    • Experience with Renesas ARM / Renesas Synergy Libraries
    • Experience with IoT / LTE M.2
    • Knowledge of EV Charging protocols (CCS, CHAdeMO, SAE J1772)
    • CAN protocol experience
    • Experience coding to a safety standard (e.g. UL 1998, ISO-26262)
    • Experience with GUI Graphics toolkit (Qt, GTK, wxWidgets, etc.)
    • Experience with mobile development (Android, iOS, etc.)
    • Experience with Arduino
    • Experience with Atlassian suite (Bitbucket, Asana, Jira, Confluence)
    • Experience with Eclipse
    • Experience with LabVIEW
    • Experience with MATLABWe are a fast-moving, start-up, building a culture based on our values of togetherness, ownership, passion, resilience and respect. This position qualifies for unlimited PTO. We offer competitive benefits including Health, Dental & Vision Insurance and 401K plans. Compensation will be based on the candidate's ability to quickly add value to the company.Our client offers fair and equal opportunities to all our candidates and team members regardless of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual identity, national origin, citizenship, marital status, disability status, parental status protected veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law. Our Client believes in hiring individuals only based on their qualifications and experiences that meet our business requirements to fill the positions.

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