Sr. Firmware Engineer

R Sr. Firmware Engineer (Open)

Location:

Cheshire, CT (ATS) - Management

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

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Airgas is Hiring for a Sr. Firmware Engineer in Cheshire, CT !

We are looking for you !

* Travel:
Occasionally (1-10% of work time)

* In-office role- M-F

* Pay: 130-145K

Senior Firmware Engineer with 5+ years of experience developing embedded systems. The candidate will be accountable for designing, building, and testing embedded firmware/software for wireless electronic products for the gas industry. The candidate will work within a multidisciplinary team and be responsible for new products from their design stage through commercialization. We require an individual that is comfortable and competent in the role of a firmware technical leader with experience in firmware development including but not limited to C and RTOS.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND

ACCOUNTABILITIES :

* Design, build, test, and document microprocessor based firmware for wireless electronic products from concept, feasibility, prototyping through production.

* Create embedded firmware and software in widely used software development environments (e.g. IAR Systems, AVR Studio, Eclipse, MPLab IDE, Zephyr).

* Create software design requirements, test plan and test results documentation for various platforms.

* Work closely with hardware engineers in specifying components for efficient firmware design.

* Working with hardware team and others, create and design PC based software to create production, manufacturing and product validation test fixtures

* Conduct system functional tests and troubleshoot products and equipment as required.

* Provide and continuously communicate time and cost estimates for projects.

* Provide ongoing technical assistance to manufacturing.

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Are you a MATCH?

Required Qualifications:

* BS+ in Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science.

* 5+ years of experience designing, building, and testing firmware and hardware for embedded systems.

* Experience generating firmware for 8-bit, 32-bit single or dual core microprocessor systems including use of peripheral devices such as A-D converters, voltage/current switches/regulators/controllers/monitors, batteries, solar panels, and charging system controllers in assembly, C or other higher languages. Familiarity with communication protocols such as SPI, I2C, Ethernet, TCP/IP, wireless networks desired.

* Experience in Low power applications for fielded devices.

* Experience with revision control applications and documentation, e.g. Git, Git Hub, Tortoise Git, Doxygen

* Experience with PC based software for controlling electronic products including but not limited to VB, Visual Studio. NET, C #, Lab View.

* Experience with Yocto Linux and real time operating systems (RTOS) for embedded systems

* Experience in BSP development and RPM creation for Linux based microprocessors.

* Experience using oscilloscopes, network analyzers, spectrum analyzers and basic lab tools and instruments.

* Desired direct design experience with RF wireless communication technologies such as Wifi, 4G, 5G, Mesh network, Bluetooth, Sigfox and LoRa.

* Experience working with FPGA firmware including but not limited to Verilog, VHDL etc. desired.

* Advanced mathematical skills relevant to the application of firmware/software engineering

Preferred Qualifications:

* Experience in BSP development for IMX
93 core processor.

* Experience in Zephyr RTOS development for Ublox NORA-B120.

COMPUTER

SKILLS:

* Comfortable using firmware development tools (IDE).

* Comfortable programming microprocessors using industry standard practices and tools.

* Comfortable documenting software and associated activities.

* Comfortable using typical tools to develop, test and troubleshoot firmware.

* Experience with mathematical and simulation tools a plus

* Basic knowledge of Google applications and Gmail

* Able to save and maintain electronic files

COMMUNICATION and/or CRITICAL THINKING

SKILLS:

* Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations

* Ability to write routine business reports and business correspondence in English

* Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from employees and/or customers

* Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists

* Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals using the English language

* Strong organizational skills and the ability to handle high-level multi-tasking

* Strong written and oral communication skills

* Strong attention to detail

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Benefits

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