Firmware Engineer

We are looking for a Staff Firmware Engineer who will contribute to the success of our client's R&D Team, applying their expertise in firmware engineering to support the achievement of team and company goals and deliver innovative, reliable solutions. In this role, the successful candidate will collaborate effectively with colleagues and cross-functional teams, demonstrate strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, and maintain a commitment to professional excellence, quality and continuous improvement.

As a Staff Firmware Engineer, you will serve as a senior technical contributor within R&D, developing embedded firmware for advanced instruments across the full product lifecycle. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into robust, scalable, and secure firmware solutions, while providing technical leadership through architecture, design reviews, mentorship, and continuous improvement of development processes and tools. This role requires strong problem-solving skills, clear technical communication, and a commitment to quality, reliability, and engineering excellence.

• Lead and/or participate in an Agile Scrum team, completing firmware work items in areas including communications interfaces, GUI interfaces and numerical code.
• Discover and capture requirements in conversations with stakeholders within and external to the company; develop design and engineering reference documentation
• Gather and refine stories in the backlog; interfacing with the team and with management stakeholders to understand customer needs and technical needs and to discover and implement appropriate resolutions of items
• Architect reusable solutions using object-oriented design in C++ or Rust
• Improve our firmware processes and tools
• Mentor and develop the team using trainings, feedback, and design discussions
• Interface across multiple portions of the organization to anticipate and support engineering, marketing, manufacturing and service needs as required, driving quality in everything we do.
• Continuously evaluate processes for improvements in efficiency, quality, and safety.

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Responsibilities may evolve over time, and other related duties may be assigned to meet the ongoing needs of the company.

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science.
• Ten or more years of embedded firmware development experience.
• Five or more years of experience as a technical lead or similar.
• Experience serving as Scrum Master or Product Owner in an Agile environment.
• Experience gathering and authoring requirements.
• Demonstrated track record of process and tool improvement within an engineering environment.
• Strong C++ or Rust programming language skills.
• Object-oriented design skills.
• Development experience with Embedded Linux at Application level.
• Experience implementing software version control and bug tracking systems.
• Ability to read and understand schematic diagrams.
• Experience in cyber security.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop engineers.
• Excellent communication skills.

• Expertise in Git, Jira, Dev Suite, Jama, or similar.
• Strong experience with QT, Linux Kernel and driver development.
• Experience with TCP/IP, WiFi and Bluetooth protocol development.
• AI and ML algorithm selection and application.