Principal Embedded Firmware Engineer Wilmington, MA

Responsibilities

• Firmware Development:
  Have direct responsibility for the implementation of embedded software solutions for client projects from ideation, through design, development, and into production.
• Lead and Mentor:
  Act as a player‑coach for our engineering team, supporting and mentoring product development teams to advance new technologies and bring new products to market. Coach engineers on essential professional skills like project management and project scoping.
• Provide Technical Leadership:
  Serve as a technical backstop, providing expert guidance and oversight for embedded firmware solutions, and actively mentor junior engineers to foster their growth and technical excellence.
• Pioneer Best Practices:
  Champion and implement cutting‑edge best practices across the firmware development lifecycle, including advanced source code management, robust version control, streamlined Dev Ops, and comprehensive automated testing strategies.
• Solve Complex Challenges:
  Conduct in‑depth electrical characterization and debugging using advanced test equipment (e.g., oscilloscopes, logic analyzers) to diagnose intermittent and complex hardware/firmware interactions and ensure robust system performance. Create innovative firmware solutions to solve complex and often unique problems, with few or ambiguous requirements.
• Influence Strategy:
  Contribute strategically to new business opportunities and project scoping, translating technical vision into actionable plans. Collaborate with team members to incorporate firmware development scoping into project proposals.
• Drive
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Work closely with multi‑disciplinary teams (electrical, mechanical, industrial design, manufacturing) to develop unified system methodologies and support critical hardware demonstrations.

• Extensive
  
  Experience:
  
  15+ years of progressive experience in embedded firmware engineering, demonstrating expertise across diverse hardware platforms, programming languages (primarily C and C++), and a wide range of microcontrollers. We value deep problem‑solving skills over a rigid adherence to specific years of experience if a candidate can demonstrate exceptional capability.
• Creating Innovative Solutions:
  Expertise in crafting embedded software solutions which bring complex electromechanical systems to life. Demonstrated success developing firmware across diverse applications, from precision motion control to sensor integration and real‑time system coordination.
• Product Development:
  Strong background in electromechanical systems development with 10+ years of electronic product experience from concept through manufacturing.
• Architectural Expertise:
  Demonstrated ability designing scalable, maintainable, and robust software architectures.
• Hardware/Firmware Mastery:
  • Strong background in hardware/firmware interaction such as firmware control of actuators, motors, sensors, etc.
  • Expertise in programming a variety of microcontrollers and their common peripherals such as UART, SPI, I2C, USB, GPIO, ADC, PWM, etc.
  • Experience developing device drivers and applications in embedded Linux runtimes (Raspbian, Yocto, Ubuntu, or others) to enable communications between microcontrollers and external hardware peripherals. Implementation of a variety of runtime environments (FreeRTOS, Zephyr, others), as well as bare‑metal programming.
• Software Development Process:
  Experience with source code management tools such as Git/Subversion, and Jira. Experience using firmware development tools such as IDEs, compilers, debuggers, and cross‑compilers.
• Project Leadership:
  Proven ability to lead projects, including project scoping and task estimation. Understanding of Agile methodologies and experience as a scrum team member and scrum master.
• Bonus
  
  Qualification:
  • Working knowledge of regulatory standards (e.g., FCC, UL) and an understanding of medical device certification (ISO 13485, IEC 62304).
  • Implementation of control algorithms and an understanding of control theory is a plus.
  • Experience programming in specialized runtimes like ROS and QT.
• Communication &
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical…