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Lead Embedded Software Engineer
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Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, 55400, USA
Listed on 2026-05-31
Listing for:
Eaton Corporation
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-05-31
Job specializations:
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Software Development
Embedded Software Engineer, Software Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Eaton’s ES AMER ESS division is currently seeking a Lead Embedded Software Engineer.
The expected annual salary range for this role is $105,000 - $154,000 a year.
Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
What you’ll doThis position is located at our Eaton Plymouth, MN or Franksville, WI location and will provide relocation to those currently residing in the U.S. This position offers a hybrid work schedule (3 days in office/2 days remote).
- Lead high-level design activities for new product features
- Lead system interface design activities and lead the resolution of integration issues
- Evaluate system performance requirements to evaluate suitability of embedded software and hardware components
- Design and implement features for power system intelligent electronic devices, including power system protection algorithms, system diagnostics/prognostics, communication protocols, cybersecurity, and other relay, control and monitoring functions using C/C++
- Collaborate with product owners, functional managers, systems engineering to distill product/system requirements/use cases to firmware designs/stories, developing module & system level code, and unit tests
- Participate in tasks related to new product development/feature development including planning, task/story estimation, design, programming, unit testing, peer review, integration and release
- Collaborate with external and internal customers, such as Marketing, Service, Operations and other engineering teams throughout the product development life cycle
- Participate in the analysis and specification of embedded software subsystems
- Design and implement unit test in support of developer testing activities and integration with Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines
- Participate and lead design and code reviews
- Plan and execute tasks in collaboration with the project team to ensure objectives are met
- Evaluate and recommend software development process improvements in collaboration with engineering management
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
- Minimum of 4 years’ experience working on embedded systems or embedded software development.
- Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.
- Minimum 3 years’ experience using C / C++
- Familiarity with hardware drivers and embedded applications, networking and related areas primarily using C and C++ as programming languages.
- Demonstrated competency with embedded software development environment and tools for Embedded Linux
- Familiarity with using or designing systems that use network protocols such as Serial, TCP/IP, Ethernet
- Familiarity creating and implementing virtualized environments for embedded software designs.
- Understanding of Object Oriented Design (OOD) principles, secure coding and cybersecurity best practices
- Understanding of real-time operating system (RTOS) concepts
- Model designs using UML or similar methodologies as appropriate; develop use cases to model real-time systems behavior
- Ability to work effectively in an Agile Scrum (or other iterative development) environment
- Experience with test-driven development (TDD) and a good familiarity with unit test frameworks (e.g. Google Test, Google Mock, xUnit++)
- Experience with multi-core embedded systems
- Experience using SDLC management tools in a team environment (e.g. Jira, Git, etc.)
- Knowledge of power systems, switch gear and regulator controls products/applications is an added advantage
- Ability to travel up to 10%
- Effectively lead, work and communicate within a global team environment.
- Collaborate with a global multi-discipline engineering teams (software, embedded software, hardware, power systems, systems, product and test) to deliver products and features in the Controls and Relays Group.
- Collaborate with external and internal customers, such as…
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