Firmware Engineer

ASSA ABLOY•Lake Forest, CA

22h•$81,810 - $128,570•Hybrid

About The Position

Shape the future of smart home technology as a Firmware Engineer on our product team. You’ll help create next-generation connected security solutions that will be installed in millions of homes across North America. This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of connected smart locks and IoT access products. Candidates should have at least 2 years of experience and an interest in the IoT space and smart home devices. They enjoy solving problems, are flexible, and are open to quickly learning and adapting to new challenges and opportunities. Candidates should be able to work closely with other engineers to solve problems with varying degrees of complexity and scope. This role works with cross-functional team members, including firmware and hardware engineers, mobile application and cloud developers, the software testing team, and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
2+ years of professional embedded firmware development experience required.
Industry experience in embedded firmware/software development for microcontrollers.
Design experience in C/C++ for embedded applications.
Experience with chip-to-chip communication protocols or interfaces (I2C, SPI, UART, etc.)
Experience with IoT connectivity protocols and interoperability standards, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread, Matter, and Aliro.
Ability to debug firmware and work with hardware, including hardware bring-up, logic probing, and voltage measurements.
Experience developing, debugging, and maintaining embedded firmware in bare-metal and RTOS-based environments, including task scheduling, inter-task communication, timers, interrupts, and resource management.
Familiarity with issue-tracking software such as Jira, collaboration tools such as Confluence, and version control.
Organized, able to multitask, and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously with varying degrees of complexity, priority, and urgency.
Keen sense of urgency, ownership, and follow-through.
Effective communicator who is passionate, flexible, collaborative, able to work independently, able to set goals, and brings a positive “can-do” attitude.
Excellent documentation practices.

Nice To Haves

Experience writing firmware for low-power, battery-operated consumer devices.
Bootloaders and firmware update OTA mechanisms.
Embedded firmware security and signing.
Production testing and provisioning.
Familiarity with electronic hardware and schematics.

Responsibilities

Work closely with lead engineers to develop firmware solutions for New Product Introductions (NPI), new features, and enhancements to existing products, including scoping, architecture, design, development, testing, validation, production release, and ongoing support.
Work with technical and non-technical team members to translate high-level project requirements into firmware specification documents, design trade-offs, risk assessments, solutions, scope and time estimates, test plans, and execution activities.
Map out firmware solutions for features, seek team alignment and follow through on implementation, validation, and release.
Work with internal and external developers on solution development while continuing to optimize code size, performance, testing, and product features across all products.
Report project progress, issues, risks, and potential solutions; test and manage defects through resolution.