Senior Manager Firmware Engineering

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Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.

We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals.

Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at  .

Work location:

• This position requires on-site presence in Decatur, GA, following a hybrid work model.

Our products, your drive! The eldoLED firmware team specifies, designs, implements, and maintains a suite of multiplatform LED driver controls relating to a comprehensive tooling chain. These tools interfaces with firmware building blocks that relate to power conversion, voltage & current modulation, communication protocols (DMX/RDM, DALI, Bluetooth, NFC, proprietary), sensors, battery backup systems, color tuning etc. The ever-expanding set of features serves a variety of users increasingly demanding smart solutions and flexibility in their deployments.

You!

• Love to contribute to bringing our technologies, our products & our platforms to the next generation.
• Keep an open eye for new technology developments in the market & introducing innovative/new technologies in our products and processes.
• Bring guidance on tailored agile development using Azure Dev-ops.
• Serve as the technical conscience for the FW team weighing customer ask and timeline against execution excellence, testability, and maintainability.
• Set up, maintain, and improve processes, documentation, and testing strategies with the team.
• Empower people and make sure team spirit is always high, even, or especially when the pressure is on! Monitor and improve predictability.
• Think outside the box and into the future for architecture and feature definition.
• Enjoys working with a global development team located over 5 sites.
• Stay on top of quality using your experience in coding.

• Minimum of a master’s degree in computer science or equivalent by experience.
• Minimum of 8 years Agile firmware development experience.
• Experience in both low level hardware control and high level RTOS development on ARM.
• Dev-ops has no secrets, you can tailor to the teams needs and reporting.
• Eager learner (Acuity PDS processes) with a hands‑on and challenging attitude.
• Pro‑active result-oriented team player with leadership skills empowering teammates, able to act as sounding board.

Strong communication skills in English, Dutch brings an advantage.

• Sr/Ld firmware developer background, with experience in hardware interaction.
• Experience with unit testing frameworks.
• Experience with modern software build environments (eg. versioning systems, regression test suites, automated builds).
• Experience with product –owner and/or –manager roles.
• Experience working with globally located development teams.
• Task switcher, working on several projects and features in parallel whilst nurturing the stakeholder relations.

The range for this position is$to$ USD. Placement within this range…