ENGINEER I,R+D FIRMWARE

Company: Midmark Corporation
Location: Versailles
Posted on: October 30, 2024

Job Description:

Job Description

JOB SUMMARY:

This role will be a creative problem solver and gain exposure to a wide variety of technologies, concepts, and techniques in firmware development from concept and architecture to release. This position is ideal for a recent graduate or an individual with minimal industry experience who possesses a strong foundation in firmware development.

ESSENTIAL/PRIMARY DUTIES:

• Develops, debugs, and tests embedded firmware for a wide variety of processor architectures.
• Creates unit, module, and system level test scripts and test plans.
• Participates in peer reviews of code features with other firmware team members.
• Interfaces with project leads to help define requirements and iterate designs through final release and verification testing.
• Supports development of new hardware designs in the lab with other engineers.
• Implements solutions, identifies, and raises project risks, acts as a team contributor.
• Works on simple engineering projects, follows best practices.
• Collaborates with development team and more experienced engineers. Escalates significant issues or decisions to higher-level engineers.
• Identifies potential risks, reports them, and collaborates with experienced engineers.
• Learns technical tools and methods. SECONDARY DUTIES:
  • Learns and applies new engineering techniques through mentored experience.
  • Assists with basic data analysis and problem-solving, follows guidelines.
  • Develops low-level drivers to interface with a wide range of embedded hardware peripheral devices, such as sensors, displays, and motors.
  • Designs and implements data interfaces between embedded devices and desktop applications.
  • Participates in the development and maintenance of custom tools to support firmware development. EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:
    
    Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or electrical engineering. Other engineering degrees (i.e., math or science discipline with relevant experience).
    
    COMPETENCY and/or SKILL:
    • Entry level experience with embedded systems programming. Ability to design and develop moderately complex software with minimal supervision
    • Ability to start applying coding standards and practices for readability and maintainability
    • Ability to document software designs and code with specifications and source comments and create end user documentation
    • Ability to program in high level and low-level languages as appropriate including C/C++ and assembler. Other language experience in Python, Java, Perl, or similar languages is desired.
    • Ability to design, develop, test and debug embedded systems
    • Ability to apply problem-solving skills to find root causes and propose solutions
    • Familiarity with basic engineering tools and methods
    • Effective communication within the team and the ability to escalate issues when needed SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
      • Provides leadership, coaching, and/or mentoring to the co-op group.

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