Senior Firmware Engineer

Business Unit : Instrumentation Systems

AMETEK Instrumentation Systems is a Business Unit in the growing AMETEK Instrumentation and Specialty Division.

Instrumentation System consists of two product lines: National Controls Corporation (NCC) and Vehicular Instrumentation Systems (VIS).

NCC specializes in electronic controls for commercial kitchens and industrial facilities.

VIS provides global solutions for rugged instrumentation, driver information displays, graphics displays and message centres for On and Off-road heavy vehicles.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Architects, designs and/or programs/develops a small module or a large component, feature, set of features, whole feature area or entire embedded software product. Some areas of expertise may include, but is not limited to, networks, operating systems, cybersecurity, databases, or applications
• Works closely with peers and keeps engaging in a fast pace technical design and development team
• Maintains code quality through best practices, code reviews and unit testing
• Customer-oriented focus in the root cause analysis of issues during programs execution
• Seeks and provides feedback on design and development
• Demonstrates the ability to make informed technology choices after due diligence and impact assessment
• Articulates the need for scalability and understand the importance of improving quality through testing
• Provides guidance to other team members with either planning and execution and/or design architecture

Basic Requirements:

• 4 - 8 years of experience in embedded systems
• Degree in Electronics Engineering or equivalent
• Well-spoken with attitude to learn and experiment in new areas
• Ability to lead a team and drive projects for closure
• Communicate to customer and gather the requirements

Technical Skills:

• Programming embedded systems in C and C++
• Familiarity with cross-development tools, CMake, IDE s etc etc.

• Familiarity with a variety of 8- to 32-bit microprocessors and microcontrollers from manufacturers such as Freescale, NXP, STMicroelectronics, etc.
• Experience in board bring up activities
• Understanding memory leaks, memory allocation in embedded systems (program flash, RAM, non-volatile storage, file systems), Linker files for memory allocations
• Designing and implementing communication protocols using low-level serial interfaces (UART, RS232, RS485, Modbus, SPI, I2C, USB, Graphical LCD, Watchdog, ADC, CAN, J1939 Protocol, Ethernet, Wifi, IOT products etc.)
• Experience with embedded development tools, debuggers, protocol analysers, etc.
• Ability to use basic test equipment like, Oscilloscope, DMM, Logic analyser etc.
• Experience in Git/Gitlab/Github/JIRA and/or similar development environment
• Developing embedded software using, Bare metal and real-time operating systems
• Experience with working RTOS (FreeRTOS), for embedded applications like, Schedulers, Multitasking, SW Architecture/Design, implementation, Testing etc.
• Ability to read schematics
• Experience with embedded GUI development, like QT or similar
• Knowledge of TCP/IP networking and security
• Experience with creating TCP/IP network application programs
• Experience in Automotive, industrial systems, controlling electromechanical peripherals, Gateways