About the position
The Firmware Engineer is part of the product development group and works closely with Planar's project teams designing best-in-class firmware and applications for commercial display products. This engineer will contribute across the full product lifecycle to deliver new products and enhance existing offerings across Planar's product line. As such they will design, implement, test and support firmware for video processor based architectures as well as software for display control and production line support. In this position, the engineer will frequently use and apply technical standards, principles, theories, concepts, and techniques in order to recommend and implement timely solutions to a variety of technical problems of significant scope and complexity.
Responsibilities
- Contribute across the full product development lifecycle: design, develop, review, test, document and support firmware and software applications for the commercial display environment
- Analyze, develop and recommend design architectures in support of product goals
- Occasionally lead or coordinate small technical teams developing solutions of moderate complexity
- Develop and present occasional technical training, and/or contribute to mentoring of interns or other employees
- Interact with customer service, field engineers (internal and external to Planar) and end users to analyze and resolve engineering related field issues
- Evaluate current and future field implementations to identify opportunities to improve product performance
- Interact with company operations team to analyze and resolve software related production line issues
- Develop and review documentation for internal and external customers (release notes, user guides, work instructions)
- Adhere to internal standards within company's new product introduction (NPI) and software engineering processes
- Develop and maintain calibration, manufacturing and validation software tools
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field
- Minimum 5 years work experience with software development, preferably with significant embedded system experience
- Proficient in Linux software development
- Proficient in C or C++ for embedded systems
Nice-to-haves
- Linux embedded systems development; Linux driver / kernel development
- Design for multithreaded, multi-process, networked applications
- Common scripting languages such as Python and bash
- Schematic reading and use of hardware diagnostic tools such as oscilloscopes
- Display electronics development experience, especially managing video IC's or IP and low-level hardware drivers
- Digital video interfaces such as HDMI and DisplayPort
- JavaScript or TypeScript for application or web development
- User interface design and/or working closely with UI designers
- General cross-platform development experience
- Various communication protocols including RS-232, I2C, CAN, SPI, USB, TCP and UDP over IP
- API implementation over communication protocol layers such as MQTT or HTTP
- Agile and secure software development lifecycle methodologies
- Excellent organizational, verbal and written communication skills and a high level of interpersonal skills
Benefits
- 75% employer-paid medical for employee. Family coverage also included.
- 100% employer paid dental, and vision for employee and dependents
- 100% employer paid long-term, short-term disability, and life insurance policy
- 401k Match, if you're contributing 5% we match 4%. 100% vested immediately.
- 10 paid holidays
- Starting at 15 days paid PTO (inclusive of sick and vacation time) annually
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
