Embedded System Software Engineer

Mpr Associates • Alexandria, VA

90d

About The Position

MPR Associates, Inc. (MPR), a thriving multi-discipline, specialty engineering services and consulting firm, is actively seeking a capable and motivated Embedded System Software Engineer to join our team. If you are seeking a unique, challenging, and rewarding career opportunity, MPR may be the right company for you. Founded in 1964, MPR has a wide and growing client base in the fields of power and energy, federal services, and health and life sciences, in the United States as well as internationally. Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, we also have offices in East Lyme, Connecticut, Burlington, Massachusetts, and Salt Lake City, Utah. MPR makes challenging projects successful, delivering safe and reliable technical solutions across the entire project or product life-cycle to benefit our clients and society as a whole. We hire the best and brightest, which results in a high-performance culture built on trust and respect, making MPR an exceptional place to work.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Bachelor's degree in an Engineering Discipline.
• Two (2) or more years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building production embedded systems or firmware.
• Understanding of embedded operating systems and bare-metal programming.
• Comfortable working with hardware and debugging tools.
• Strong problem-solving skills for performance and memory optimization challenges.
• Proficiency in C for embedded development preferred.
• Experience with microcontrollers, firmware development, and low-level programming preferred.
• Understanding of embedded constraints, timing requirements, and deterministic behavior preferred.
• Familiarity with hardware interfaces, protocols, and sensor integration preferred.
• Experience with hardware bring-up, schematic reading, and familiarity with design tools like Altium or similar PCB/schematic software preferred.
• Experience with SPI, I2C, UART or similar protocols preferred.
• Willingness to work on high-level software that interfaces with embedded systems preferred.
• Experience or willingness to learn PCB design via Altium preferred.

Nice To Haves

• The ability to learn quickly and adapt to new technologies while multitasking.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
• Ability to work collaboratively across functional teams.
• Exceptional time and project management skills.
• Ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Persistent, questioning attitude and ability to accept that in others.
• Motivated to expand skills and knowledge, as well as tackle new problems and take on new responsibilities.
• Ability to participate in multiple projects and project teams concurrently.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement firmware and low-level software for connected embedded platforms and microcontrollers.
• Develop time-critical software that interfaces with hardware components and sensors.
• Work closely with hardware teams to ensure seamless integration between software and physical systems.
• Extend beyond embedded work to support higher-level applications that interface with embedded systems.
• Ensure embedded performance requirements are met while optimizing for memory and processing constraints.
• Work closely with the remainder of the engineering team to implement a solution which fits all needs of the client.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree