Sr. Firmware Engineer, EMV

At Mag Tek, we envision a world where banking, shopping, working, playing, communicating, and exchanging services happen in a safe and worry‑free environment.

Our mission is to deliver Qwantum™ Security and Magne Safe® secured devices and services across the globe to healthcare facilities, financial institutions, merchants, and any party committed to safer transactions. Our fraud fighting solutions are simple, easy, practical, scalable and cost‑effective to deploy. We will do our utmost to protect the identity, privacy, assets, and safety of our customers.

By joining Mag Tek, you become a key contributor to our vision of a secure and seamless digital experience. We foster a workplace culture built on customer‑centricity, ownership, accountability, teamwork, open debate, agility, risk‑taking, and celebrating success. If these values resonate with you, we encourage you to explore this opportunity further.

As a Senior Firmware Engineer, you will play a vital role in developing innovative payment and non‑payment solutions for our customers and partners.

In this role, you will lead the team in designing, developing, and certifying embedded firmware for payment terminal applications. Work closely with project managers, engineers, business managers and others to translate requirements into technical requirements and execution plans.

• Lead team in designing, developing, and certifying embedded firmware for payment terminal applications.
• Hands‑on code development, testing, debugging, and release.
• Develop firmware plans and clearly outline the theory of operation.
• Generate clear documentation and detailed technical specifications as needed.
• Train and coach less experienced engineers.
• Occasionally assist with resolving product, system, or field‑level challenges.
• Work both independently and in a team environment.

If you are passionate about building secure and seamless firmware embedded systems, we'd love to hear from you!

$ - $/yr. Full‑time Position at our Seal Beach, CA headquarters and Dallas, TX

• BS degree in any of the following:
  Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics & Communications Engineering, or Electrical Engineering and/or equivalent experience
• At least 10 years of experience working with embedded systems.
• Extensive experience and deep expertise in payment and EMV firmware.
• Knowledge and hands‑on experience in bringing up networking interfaces (Ethernet/Wifi) or Bluetooth LE for embedded systems.
• Experience in secure Ethernet/Wifi deployment is a strong plus.
• Extensive experience with the USB protocol is a strong plus.
• Proficient in
  
  C.
• Knowledge and hands‑on experience of Real Time Operating Systems is a must. Must have experience on multi‑threading system.
• Experience in system‑level and architecture design of embedded systems.
• Experience in structured design, OOD (e.g., code reusability), and best practices for embedded systems
• Proficiency with source control systems (e.g.
  Git
  ) and defect tracking systems (e.g.
  JIRA
  ).
• Ability to scope and estimate development effort.
• Ability to architect embedded firmware, from high‑level task scheduling to low‑level HALs.
• Experience with interfaces/protocols like UART, SPI, I2C, USB, Ethernet, Wifi, and Bluetooth/BLE.
• A strong plus to be experienced with various scripting languages such as Python, Bash scripting
  , etc.

If you are passionate about building secure and seamless firmware embedded systems, we'd love to hear from you! Email your resume to

Mag Tek is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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