Firmware Engineering Co-op

Join us at Entrust At Entrust, we’re shaping the future of identity centric security solutions. From our comprehensive portfolio of solutions to our flexible, global workplace, we empower careers, foster collaboration, and build solutions that help keep the world moving safely.

Headquartered in Minnesota, Entrust is an industry leader in identity-centric security solutions, serving over 150 countries with cutting-edge, scalable technologies. But our secret weapon? Our people. It’s the curiosity, dedication, and innovation that drive our success and help us anticipate the future.

Entrust is seeking a Firmware Engineering Co-Op (6 to 12
-month Co-Op) to work with our Team in the design and implementation of our Card & Passport personalization products. The qualified candidate will work alongside other Engineers in our Shakopee Office to gain experience in Firmware development methodologies and standard processes. The Entrust Firmware team plays a key role in bringing the company's wide range of hardware products to life through use of embedded control of motors, sensors, vision systems, and huge variety of personalization technologies, including smart card chip programming, magnetic stripe encoding, and printing.

The team works closely with other Engineering disciplines to ensure our products meet the highest level of security and integrity, all while achieving industry leading levels of performance.

• Design, develop, test, document and deploy firmware
• Assist in reviewing product requirements and estimation of work
• Work with test team to validate functionality
• Participate in code reviews
• Review and Respond to reported field problems
• Debug issues at the boundary of Hardware and Firmware

• Enrolled in BS / BA in computer science, electrical engineering, or equivalent technical degree
• Completed at least two years of course work in your current program
• Experience in C/C++
• Comfortable working with the Linux OS and embedded development environments
• Displays strong desire to build skills and knowledge
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience working with multi-person teams and projects

• Experience with revision control systems, e.g. Subversion, Git, Mercurial
• Experience with project/issue tracking systems, e.g. Gitlab, JIRA, Git Hub
• Experience in Python
• Experience in working with electro-mechanical systems
• Experience reading and understanding electrical schematics
• Experience with development processes, methodologies, and tools

Entrust keeps the world moving safely by enabling trusted experiences for identities, payments, and digital infrastructure. We offer an unmatched breadth of solutions that are critical to enabling trust for multi-cloud deployments, mobile identities, hybrid work, machine identity, electronic signatures, encryption, and more. With more than 2,800 colleagues, a network of global partners, and customers in over 150 countries, it’s no wonder the world’s most entrusted organizations trust us.

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