Firmware Engineer

Boyd • Fredericksburg, VA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Boyd’s Thermal Test and Control Systems division, located in Phoenix, Arizona, is developing innovative thermal test solutions for the semiconductor industry. The engineering team is seeking to grow our multi-disciplined engineering team to tackle new challenges in the industry and is seeking a talented Firmware Design Engineer to fill a critical role within the team. If you are a motivated and self-starting engineer interested in understanding entire systems and applying your understanding to turn concepts into great products, we are looking forward to you joining our team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field and 10+ years of related experience.
• 4+ years experience in embedded system programming in C or C++
• Experience interfacing with common communication methods such as TCP/IP, and I2C,SPI,RS-232
• Experience interfacing with low-level analog hardware via ADC,DAC, and PWM
• Ability to understand schematics and IC operation and designing low-level drivers

Nice To Haves

• Multi-process/multi-threaded design experience
• Application programming experience on Linux-based platforms (Debian preferred)
• User Interface programming experience (Qt, WebIQ preferred)
• Configuring and tuning feedback control loops (e.g. PID)
• Windows desktop app development experience for utilities (C#/Visual Studio or Qt preferred)

Responsibilities

• Working with multi-discipline team to develop thermal control products involving a diverse set of custom thermal forcing hardware
• Full lifecycle development of custom thermal control application firmware
• Supporting proof-of-concept studies
• Using tuning parameters to effect dynamic performance of feedback control systems
• Maintenance and enhancement of firmware on existing thermal products
• Firmware development using Qt/C++ for application development for Linux OS target and using C for non-OS/bare-metal target.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level