Firmware Architect (12-15 yrs)

Position Objective:

The Embedded Firmware Architect will be individually responsible for everything firmware-related. Architect, design, develop and maintain firmware for the company products

Responsibilities:

1. Develop the System SW, electrical architecture, and interfaces based on our platform requirements

2. Document the architecture in system engineering tools to provide traceability with overall system engineering requirements and validation

3. Collaborate with both customers and partners, and internal teams to communicate the architecture, and ensure that their feedback is incorporated regularly into the architecture changes

4. Maintain ongoing changes to architecture with proper version control and documentation to support overall project execution

5. Sufficient HW and SW experience to develop a combined system architecture

6. Prior experience in developing and maintaining system architecture

7. Knowledge of common system engineering tools and frameworks to link requirements with architecture

8. Good written and verbal communication skills to communicate and document design decisions

9. Ability to conduct failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) and drive architectural changes accordingly

10. Demonstrated experience with Keil, IAR, and other development environments

11. Solid understanding of ARM processor architectures, memory management, and system-level design principles

12. Experience with WiFi, BLE, and MW-based RF technology and a good understanding of how these systems are architected

13. Prior experience in design and implementation of firmware including boot, OS + toolchain, drivers, comms, middleware, and application and state machine

14. Understanding of software libraries, firmware modules, static analysis and unit testing

15. Experience with communication protocols such as CAN, SPI, and I2C.

16. Ability to optimize software for resource-constrained embedded systems (e.g. power, throughput, memory, etc.)

17. Experience throughout full product and software development lifecycle; including defining goals and ensuring milestone delivery in high cross-functional capacity

18. Exposure to SCA tools such as Coverity or Checkmarx, CI/CD methods, and test automation. Familiarity with Agile methodology is a plus

19. Knowledge of microcontroller peripherals such as UART, ADC, DAC, PWM, TMR, etc.