Illinois Tool Works-posted 3 months ago
Full-time • Manager
Hatfield, PA
5,001-10,000 employees
Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

The Embedded Firmware Engineering Manager is responsible for researching, planning, and implementing firmware solutions for electro-mechanical products and systems related to Brooks' flow and pressure measurement and control product families. In addition to strong technical contributions, this position is also responsible for providing leadership oversight for a team of firmware engineers and serving as firmware subject matter expert to ensure engineering best practices are followed across the entire firmware functional group.

  • Communicate development project status with program management and other leaders.
  • Continuously review industry best practice for firmware development; reviewing, updating, creating Brooks' processes accordingly.
  • Apply knowledge of computer architectures, real-time operating systems, and programming languages to develop and implement new real-time embedded firmware for flow measurement and control products to support business requirements.
  • Work with Marketing and project teams to define detailed firmware requirements to meet customers' needs.
  • Orchestrate cross functional reviews of firmware requirement and code implementation.
  • Provide leadership to team as they work to efficiently resolve technical challenges through debugging, research, and investigation.
  • Manage the development, implementation, and release of automated test procedures for firmware validation.
  • Coordinate and/or perform design verification and validation testing of new designs with the reliability engineering group.
  • Manage resource loading of embedded firmware team in order to meet project deliverables and ensure that engineering hours are being accurately tracked.
  • Manage R&D expenses of Embedded firmware team and provide input on budget and capital planning.
  • Govern embedded firmware documentation to promote future product sustaining efforts.
  • Identify, with support from marketing and other engineering management, promising areas of research or technology that address current needs and have larger potential markets.
  • Utilize originality, ingenuity, and creativity to manage complex and large scope project assignments.
  • Modify existing products to improve performance, reliability, cost, and manufacturability.
  • Lead the firmware functional group as the firmware engineering subject matter expert.
  • Mentor and assist firmware engineers in the engineering principals and procedures for product design, development, and testing.
  • Manage the development tools and licenses, templates, and process for the firmware functional group.
  • Participate in recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and development of engineering team members.
  • Oversee the establishment and monitoring of employee goals and ultimately in providing performance feedback.
  • Maintain and enhance Company safety policies and procedures.
  • Support Company continuous improvement initiatives.
  • BS Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or closely related Engineering degree required, MS degree preferred.
  • 7-10 years of industry experience developing complex embedded software systems.
  • Prior leadership experience is desirable.
  • Programming in C and/or C++ required, other programming languages a plus.
  • Experience with ARM microcontrollers and real-time operating systems required.
  • Experience with System Engineering and modeling a plus (MatLab/Simulink/Embedded Coder).
  • Experience with mass flow control systems and/or other control systems highly desirable.
  • Familiarity with industry standard communication protocols (EtherCAT, RS485, DeviceNet) preferred.
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