Firmware Development Manager

JOB SUMMARY

The Firmware Development Manager is responsible for participating in the research, design and development of test instrumentation for the electric power generation, transmission and distribution industry. This person will evaluate architectural choices based on product requirements and ensure that the architecture works across hardware, firmware and software components. The Firmware Development Manager also provides technical leadership to a team of engineers and participates in the selection and definition of hardware and software architectures for future products.

The ideal candidate has experience working in an embedded real‑time, multi‑processor environment. This position will be located in our Marlborough, MA corporate headquarters, reporting to the Director of Software Engineering.

• Recruit and manage a team of up to 15 software engineers, including local and remote, full‑time and contract developers.
• Assess performance and deliver reviews for all team members.
• Evaluate new technologies and incorporate them into product architectures to implement requested product functions.
• Innovate new product features by realizing products from technical possibilities.
• Provide technical leadership in system design.
• Participate in project team meetings.
• Design, develop, test and document firmware components and applications.
• Design, develop and test embedded real‑time, multi‑processor systems.
• Work with engineering project teams to provide architectural technical leadership.
• Lead technical requirements gathering, estimating, and planning efforts.
• Leverage internal component reusability and open‑source solutions to improve time to market.
• Develop products to promote the ease of implementing automated test suites (nice to have).
• Create clear metrics for testing status and progress monitoring dashboards.
• Mentor and grow team members through ongoing professional development activities.
• Identify and implement process and development environment improvements.
• Work with development and project managers to assist in technical decision making.
• Ensure cross‑product implementation consistency.
• Collaborate with other product teams on solutions.
• Travel requirement: less than 5%.

This employee will lead a team of firmware developers to support existing Doble products and help build new products.

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering required.

• Ability to express ideas clearly in written and oral communications.
• Willingness and excitement to assume increased responsibility.
• Ability to quickly prototype new concepts and ideas.
• Creativity in solving complex problems without known solutions.
• Familiarity and experience working with Matlab, Linux, and scripting languages.
• Knowledge of PC‑based applications.
• Knowledge of FPGA programming.
• Knowledge of hardware design and familiarity with message bus technologies and implementations.
• Experience managing code management systems such as Bitbucket.
• Team communication and collaboration experience (e.g., a wiki).
• Ability to assess new technologies via comprehensive reviews.
• Experience working with hardware teams to isolate failure causes.
• 8+ years of work experience in firmware and software development.
• 2+ years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Proven track record of proactively working with development and QA stakeholders.
• Strong technical capabilities of a developer combined with passion for assuring product quality.
• DSP FPGA/CPLD implementations.
• Project management skills, including planning, estimation and requirements management.
• Expert level skills in one or more scripting languages such as TCL, Python and Perl.
• Experience with embedded and host applications developed in C, C++, C# and .NET.

• FPGA or DSP based digital loop control.
• Simulation with PSpice, LTSpice, MATLAB, PSIM and/or Simulink.
• Complete product life‑cycle experience.
• IEC
  61010‑1 compliance experience.
• Experience working in an agile engineering environment.
• Experience working with Atlassian Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket products.
• Experience or desire to learn about utility power systems.
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