Embedded Firmware Engineer

Job Description

Everforth ECS is seeking an Embedded Firmware Engineer to join the RPL team in Chantilly, VA.

We're looking for an Embedded Firmware Engineer to design, develop, and maintain embedded software for our hardware products. You will work closely with hardware, software, and product teams to deliver reliable, high-performance firmware solutions that power and drive our newest relief-providing devices.

• Design, develop, and debug firmware for embedded systems and microcontrollers
• Collaborate with hardware engineers to define system architecture and hardware/firmware interfaces
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code in C and C++
• Develop and execute unit tests, integration tests, and system validation
• Optimize firmware for performance, memory usage, and power consumption
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in embedded systems and field deployments
• Contribute to code reviews and maintain thorough technical documentation
• Support bring-up and validation of new hardware platforms
• Occasional domestic and international travel (up to 15% of the time, several times a year) to support installations, testing and other project related activities.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
• 3+ years of experience in embedded firmware development
• Strong proficiency in C/C++ programming
• Experience working with microcontrollers and embedded systems (bare-metal and RTOS)
• Familiarity with hardware interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, and USB
• Experience using debugging tools (programmer/debuggers, power supplies, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG, etc.)
• Understanding of memory management, interrupts, and real-time constraints
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics
• Effective communication and teamwork skills
• Willingness to learn and take direction from senior Engineers
• Ability to obtain and maintain a US Government DoD Security Clearance.

• 3+ years in electronic circuit analysis and design applications, such as:
• Altium or Siemens/Mentor Graphics PADS
• SPICE/PSPICE
• MATLAB
• Keysight Pathwave/Genesys/ADS, AWR Microwave Office or Ansys HFSS
• Model Sim, Vivado, Vitis or Quartus
• 3+ years of experience with FPGA designs, VHDL and/or Verilog.
• Experience with FPGA soft CPU cores similar to AMD Microblaze or Altera Nios II.
• Experience with 8051 assembly
• Experience with designing/debugging high speed interfaces (1GE, PCIe, and DDRx).
• Experience with hardware & software codesign in Zynq Ultra Scape+ RFSoCs.
• Experience in Radio Frequency (RF) circuit modeling, analysis and design and/or Digital Signal Processing (DSP).
• Experience with high-speed digital design, including signal integrity and clock domain crossing.
• Familiarity with Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Test (DFT).
• Coursework or direct experience with radar systems, including:
• Radar system design and analysis
• Radar signal processing and simulation
• Understanding of basic RF and microwave engineering principles, including:
• Transmission lines and matching networks
• Filter design and analysis
• Harmonic balance and non-linear effects
• Cascaded noise figure and signal-to-noise analyses
• Radio Frequency/Electromagnetic Interference (RFI/EMI) effects and mitigation techniques
• Time- and frequency-domain relationships and analysis techniques
• Active US Government DoD Secret Security Clearance or higher.