Firmware​/Software Engineer, Advanced

Overview:

At Zebra, we are a community of innovators who come together to create new ways of working. United by curiosity and a culture of caring, we develop smart solutions that anticipate our customer’s and partner’s needs and solve their challenges.

Being part of Zebra Nation means you are seen, heard, valued, and respected. Drawing from our unique perspectives, we collaborate to deliver on our purpose. Here you are part of a team pushing boundaries today to redefine the work of tomorrow for organizations, their employees, and those they serve.

You’ll have opportunities to learn and lead in a forward-thinking environment, defining your path to a fulfilling career while channeling your skills toward causes you care about—locally and globally.

Come make an impact every day at Zebra.

What We're Looking For:

Analyzes, develops, designs, programs, debugs and implements embedded systems for the organization’s products and systems. Develops testing and troubleshooting strategies, devices, and systems for firmware. Integrates firmware to maintain functionality, throughput and consistency. Develops user documentation.

This is a hybrid position working on-site at our corporate office located in Lincolnshire, IL for a minimum of 3 days a week.

Responsibilities:

• Establishes, implements, and maintains embedded firmware for the organization's Thermal printer products and solutions.

• Research, design and develop new technology for platform in support of organization ‘s strategy vision.

• Grow competency on wide range of Product framework, HALs, Linux Kernel drivers from Peripheral and Network communication, and real time controls, and be the go-to-person for questions.

• Establishes requirements for highly complex firmware design projects and may lead a team responsible for establishing requirements. Ensures that the correct features are incorporated first in the projects.

• Architects and designs highly complex firmware projects. Completes all phases of the projects. Follows through on all in-process and final inspection activities.

• Drives code review of projects. Develops and applies technical and quality improvements.

• Creates new programs, technologies, and solutions based on novel or unique ideas. Ensures new ideas and methodologies are documented for use by software teams.

• Uses status as a knowledge leader in firmware design and functional knowledge across multiple engineering disciplines and program management to provide technical leadership to a given program.

• Defines requirements for and may design complex new tools to aid in the analysis and solving of complex problems.

• Reviews firmware test results and root cause analysis. Resolves highly complex technical issues.

• Reviews changes or upgrades to existing firmware designs. Develops new solutions to unique problems.

• Identifies issues, and makes recommendations for complex problems.

• Makes modifications to or upgrades existing firmware designs via patches and generating new code.

• Exercises judgment (within broadly defined policies and practices) in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.

• Enhances and improves existing technologies to apply to new solutions.

• Initiates cross-company collaboration and develops positive relationships with other engineering disciplines.

• May coordinate the activities of other personnel.

• Makes recommendations to immediate team to enhance performance and improve product quality.

• Exercises judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.

• Advance internal processes to improve efficiency and performance on executions.

• Networks with key contacts outside own area of expertise. Interacts with management and senior customer personnel on matters requiring coordination across organizational lines.…