Lead Embedded Firmware Engineer

Forge Performance Group is a Recruitment & Talent Management solutions team located in Calgary, AB. We are dedicated to connecting our clients with highly skilled professionals well-matched to their unique hiring needs, culture, and goals. This opportunity is posted on behalf of one of our clients.

Lead Embedded Firmware Engineer

We’re looking for a full-time remote firmware leader to own embedded software for a renewable energy inverter. You will be responsible for owning the design of firmware for real-time control, communication, telemetry and test automation. This role works closely with hardware and test engineers to define requirements, build robust test procedures, and ship production-grade firmwar

• es Own firmware technical roadmap, architecture decisions, and delivery for a multi-controller embedded syst
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  Lead planning, estimation, prioritization, and execution of firmware work streams across new features, validation, and field issu
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  Define firmware requirements and test procedures to validate new featur
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  Develop and maintain firmware on Microchip PIC
  16 & PIC
  32 MCU’s using MPLAB X, MCC and X32 toolcha
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  Deliver safe and deterministic behavior for closed loop control syste
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  Build and maintain firmware validation tooling and automati
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  Drive coding standards and best practices across code reviews, documentation, testing, and long-term maintainabili

• nce A bachelor's degree in Electrical & Electronic / Software Engineering or equival
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  Strong firmware experience working with embedded C & microcontrollers for 3+ ye
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  Experience with communication protocols SPI, UART, I2C & peripherals such as ADCs & P
• WMs.Proven ability to debug complex iss
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  Ability to define system behavior using state diagrams and translate them into deterministic embedded firmw
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  Ability to read electrical schematics, datasheets, and functional diagr
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  Expertise in control theory, feedback/feed forward loops, and frequency respo
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  Proficiency with Git workflows (branching, reviews, relea

• aves Experience with TCP/UDP networking and Wi-Fi module integration in embedded sys
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  Jenkins or comparable CI/CD release pipel
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  Experience using JIRA for backlog, requirements, and feature trac
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  Experience with Python and scripting langu
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  Knowledge of higher-level programming languages and experience using AWS cloud serv
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  Understanding of Grid Technologies and renewable energy sy
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  Experience with Power Electronics, oscilloscopes, and digital multime