Senior Firmware Developer

Fresh Consulting is a design‑led, software development and hardware engineering company, offering end‑to‑end digital services to help companies innovate.

Title: Senior Firmware Developer
Location: Hybrid – our offices are located in San José, Montes de Oca, San Pedro. You’ll be required to work onsite at least one day per week.
Benefits: Medical plan, PTO, Sick Leave and Bereavement Leave, English classes, great culture and much more!
Hours: Minimum 40 Hours/Week

• Will be the technical lead of a team of 4‑5 firmware developers that will be working on a test instrument device.
• Will be using and leading an Agile 2‑week sprint cadence.
• Will be using Linux development environment.
• Will be responsible for driving the team to deliver quality products.
• Will be interacting with the client on technical and delivery.

• At least 10‑20 years experience in firmware development.
• Experienced technical lead of products that use ARM Cortex‑M class of processors.
• Experienced leading teams in the Agile development process.
• C/C++ Programming.
• Microcontroller Firmware Low‑Level programming, Register Manipulation and some lightweight digital signal processing (number representation, FPUs/DSP instructions, math).
• Capabilities in developing software modularly with abstractions – Establishing a good platform abstraction of the HAL.
• ARM Based Microcontrollers (Cortex‑M).
• Interpreting Schematics and technical reference manuals (Pinouts, etc).
• FreeRTOS Development (Knowledge of threading, synchronization, IPC, and other RTOS features).
• Interrupt Safe Design and Use of Synchronization Devices.
• Automated tests using Unit Tests, static analysis, etc.
• Experience with Standard Peripherals (UART, ADC, Timers, etc).
• Use of Benchtop Tools (Logic Analyzers, power supplies, Multimeters, scopes).
• Strong toolchain and debugger knowledge; ability to support numerous build targets with different tool chains.
• Python.
• Build System (Scons).
• Git, Github.
• Agile Software Development using Atlassian & Git Hub.
• Software Development Life Cycle.
• Cloud based Development Environments using Git Hub Actions, Docker, etc.

Equal employment opportunity:
All qualified persons will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, familial status, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability for which a reasonable accommodation can be made or any other status protected by law. Assistance will be gladly provided upon request for any applicant with sensory or non‑sensory disabilities.