Firmware Engineer II
About The Position
A Firmware Engineer II is responsible for the design, development, testing, and maintenance of embedded firmware for microcontroller-based electromechanical gate and door products. This is a highly hands-on, hardware-oriented role focused on low-level embedded systems (bare-metal and RTOS), not embedded Linux or application-layer development. The ideal candidate enjoys working with hardware, including board bring-up, debugging real circuits, and interacting directly with electrical designs. You will contribute to products that are released into medium and high-volume manufacturing and be involved throughout the product lifecycle, including architecture discussions, board bring-up, debugging, validation, and field reliability improvements. This role emphasizes low-level firmware development, technical execution, collaboration, and ownership of firmware components rather than OS-based development or direct people management.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 3–7 years of experience developing firmware on microcontrollers (bare-metal or RTOS) for production hardware.
- High proficiency in C for embedded microcontrollers.
- Strong understanding of microcontroller peripherals (timers, interrupts, ADC, PWM, communication interfaces)
- Experience with common microcontroller families and IDEs (e.g., ST, Microchip, TI, NXP).
- Experience with RTOS-based firmware architectures.
- Ability to read and understand schematics and basic circuit design.
- Hands-on experience with hardware debugging tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG/SWD debuggers.
- Experience using Git or similar version control systems in a team environment.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to communicate effectively with electrical, mechanical, and test engineers.
- Comfortable working in a small, collaborative engineering team.
Nice To Haves
- Experience using higher-level languages (e.g. Python) for testing, scripting, or tooling is a plus.
- Experience in: BLDC Motor control, Battery and Solar management, standard wired and wireless embedded communication protocols, Embedded Web Servers, low power/standby modes and Exposure to safety-critical or regulated products.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain embedded firmware for microcontroller-based systems used in vehicular gate operators.
- Develop production-quality firmware in C/C++ for real-time embedded systems, including bare metal and RTOS-based applications.
- Implement and debug low-level drivers and hardware interfaces directly on microcontrollers (no embedded Linux).
- Collaborate closely with electrical engineers during schematic review, board bring-up, debugging, and hardware/firmware integration.
- Debug hardware/firmware issues at the signal level (GPIO, SPI, I2C, UART, ADC, PWM, RS485, etc.)
- Participate in firmware architecture discussions and contribute to design decisions for new products and feature enhancements.
- Effectively use hardware debugging tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and debuggers to diagnose and resolve issues.
- Support manufacturing introduction, validation testing, and ongoing product reliability improvements.
- Document firmware design, behavior, and interfaces through code commits, specifications, and technical documentation.
- Work effectively within Git-based version control workflows, including code reviews and collaborative development.
- Maintain awareness of applicable safety and regulatory requirements (e.g., UL 325) and how they impact firmware design.
- Provide technical support and collaboration with other engineering disciplines and departments as needed.
- Stay current with embedded systems best practices and contribute to continuous improvement of development processes.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
