Firmware Controls Engineer

Our business is BBQ, and business tastes good. Traeger invented the wood pellet grill over 30 years ago, and we’ve been revolutionizing outdoor cooking ever since. We’re a team of disruptors, innovators, problem solvers, and food fanatics who are dedicated to bringing people together to create a more flavorful world. From our headquarters in Salt Lake City and beyond, we work tirelessly to provide a world-class experience to our customers, retailers, and especially our employees.

If you’re a team player who’s dedicated to delivering top-quality results every day, then we want you to come cook with us!

As a Firmware Controls Engineer at Traeger, you will design, develop, and implement control systems and embedded software that deliver precise, consistent cooking performance in our products. Your primary focus will be characterizing grill behavior including heat distribution, system response, and tuning PID control parameters to achieve exceptional cooking results. You will evaluate performance goals, address latency, and manage variations in the combustion process through a combination of hands‑on physical testing and analytical modeling.

In this role, you will own and deliver control requirements that align with our culinary and customer expectations while meeting performance, reliability, and safety standards. Beyond control firmware, you will contribute to general embedded firmware development including building features and enhancements that improve grill performance and the user experience.

Success in this position requires strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, creativity, and attention to detail, along with clear communication of findings and progress across hardware, firmware, performance, and product teams.

• Design, develop, and implement tuning control systems for product lineup.
• Develop and maintain control system specifications, test plans, and validation protocols.
• Collaborate with product development teams to design control systems that meet the performance, reliability, safety, and regulatory requirements of the industry.
• Help transfer market requirements into product requirements that may be decomposed accordingly to enable design.
• Collaborate with the test team, culinary, and design engineers to ensure everything is properly implemented and tested.
• Perform hands‑on testing and characterization using automated grill control hardware/software and data acquisition tools.
• Troubleshoot and resolve any control system issues or failures that arise during development, testing, or production.
• Design and develop embedded systems from concept to implementation, ensuring they meet performance, cost, compliance, and reliability requirements.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation for control systems including engineering drawings, specifications, and programming.
• Design, manage, and maintain embedded firmware solutions.
• Create and manage engineering documentation that meets industry standards.
• Perform troubleshooting and root cause analysis on existing and future products.
• Work well with all stakeholders and understand the needs of the whole product team.
• Aid the team by identifying process gaps and working together on making process improvements.
• Travel internationally as required for product development and product launches (