Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer

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Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer

Hybrid – Roanoke VA

GridPoint is a rapidly growing, private equity backed, technology leader with a mission to accelerate the world’s transition to a sustainable future by creating an intelligent energy network of grid-interactive buildings. By transforming the way commercial businesses use energy, GridPoint unlocks the decarbonization, sustainability, and grid resiliency required for a cleaner, more efficient tomorrow. Our technology platform harnesses power and potential within a building to deliver energy, operational, and resiliency benefits.

Networked together, GridPoint intelligent buildings provide reliable, precise, and instantaneous capacity for utilities and grid operators. GridPoint’s growing network of commercial buildings spans across Fortune 500 enterprises, utilities, government organizations, and small businesses.

The Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer will play an integral part in designing and developing embedded firmware for the Gridpoint Energy Management Platform. In this role you will work closely with the embedded electrical engineer in defining the platform and responsible for architecting, developing, testing and delivering quality embedded firmware for a myriad of platforms including Microchip and STMicro. These products provide the foundational telemetry and controls required to optimize our customers’ energy profile.

• Design and implement efficient, reliable firmware for microcontroller-based IoT devices
• Develop real-time embedded software using C/C++ for resource-constrained environments
• Create and maintain device drivers for sensors, actuators, and communication modules
• Implement power management strategies for battery-operated devices
• Optimize code for memory usage, performance, and power consumption
• Collaborate with hardware engineers on system architecture and component selection
• Create comprehensive test plans and perform unit, integration, and system testing
• Debug firmware issues using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG debuggers
• Conduct performance analysis and optimization of embedded systems
• Develop Firmware for NPI as well as Legacy Product Maintenance

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in embedded firmware development
• 3+ years of hands-on IoT systems development and debugging experience
• Programming
  
  Languages:
  
  Proficiency in C/C++ for embedded systems, Python for tooling
• Microcontrollers:
  
  Experience with ARM Cortex-M, STM
  32, Microchip, or similar platforms
• Hardware Interfaces:
  Ethernet, USB, SPI, I2C, UART, RS-485
• GUI Development: LVGL, Touch
  
  GFX, or similar
• Version Control:
  Git, understanding of collaborative development workflows

• Agile development methodologies.
• Communication Protocols: TCP/IP, MQTT, CoAP, HTTP/HTTPS, Mod Bus
• Wireless Technologies:
  WiFi, Bluetooth/BLE, LoRa/LoRaWAN, cellular
• USB Composite Device Experience.
• Debugging Tools: JTAG, SWD, oscilloscope, logic analyzer, Joulescope.
• Experience with RTOS (FreeRTOS, Zephyr, or similar).
• Energy management systems.

GridPoint is an EEO Employer M/F/D/V

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Engineering and Information Technology

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