Sr Firmware Engineer

Position Overview

Entrust is seeking a Senior Firmware Engineer to work within our product development team. This individual will perform the responsibilities outlined below and other duties as assigned. Join a talented and dynamic team of engineers developing systems used to print and personalize credit cards, passports, driver’s licenses, national IDs and more. The Entrust Firmware team plays a key role in bringing this wide range of hardware products to life through use of embedded control of motors, sensors, vision systems, and a huge variety of personalization technologies, including smart card chip programming, laser engraving, and printing.

• Real‑time embedded system software design for control systems in complex machines.
• Development of requirements, design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation of embedded software components or applications.
• Developing firmware for digital, analog, RF, power, and motion control systems.
• Participation in design and code reviews, hardware/software integration and development test.
• Understand and perform design trade‑offs in a collaborative team environment.
• Provide schedule input and communicate status to various levels of management, peers and team members.
• Develop or contribute to development and maintenance of policies, practices and standards.
• Continuously improve work processes to enable team efficiencies.
• Resolve product issues through problem evaluation, code modifications, development testing, and coordination with product support team members.
• Create product enhancements from requirements with an emphasis on system‑wide benefit and risk impact, iterative design, and thorough development testing.

• 5+ years’ experience with embedded software, hardware and/or firmware in a product development environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science.
• Extensive experience (5+ years) with C++ and/or C in an embedded development environment.
• Experience with embedded Linux, VxWorks or other embedded real‑time operating system.
• Experience with Yocto Project/Open Embedded for Linux system development.
• Experience with development processes, methodologies, and tools.
• Experience with revision control systems, e.g., Subversion, Git.
• Experience with unit and integration test methodologies.
• Must have unrestricted work authorization for US.

• Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science.
• Experience in Linux kernel development.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas:
  Motor control, smart card technology, color printing technology, RFID technology, security concepts including encryption, PKI and vulnerability mitigation, laser control, networking protocols, scripting languages.
• Shows strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Displays a high level of initiative and ability to deliver results on technical projects.
• Exhibits good engineering judgment and decision making.
• Proficiency using AI tools to assist with code generation, analysis, documentation, and scripting.
• Ability to work autonomously with cross‑functional team members.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to prepare written specifications.

The anticipated starting base pay for this position is $104,541–$153,327 per year (in the primary posting location). Actual compensation will be determined based on geographic location, education, skills and experience. This position is also eligible for the company’s discretionary annual incentive plan. In addition to your pay, Entrust offers eligible colleagues and their dependents comprehensive health and well‑being programs that include medical, vision, dental;

a generous 401(k) matching contribution; life and disability insurance; mental health coaching; virtual fitness programs; paid personal time off plus 12 paid holidays; parental leave and education reimbursement. Please speak with the recruiter for more details.

Note:

Benefit and Compensation programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program. Entrust has the right to end,…