Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer

Re:Build Manufacturing • Wilmington, MA

17h • Onsite

About The Position

Re:Build Fikst, a Re:Build Manufacturing company, is a dynamic product development and engineering consulting firm located in Wilmington, MA. We work with pioneering clients to develop technology, design products, and bring those products to production. Re:Build Fikst's areas of expertise include biomedical instruments and consumables, industrial automation, and design for manufacturing. Fikst has growing embedded systems design capabilities, focusing on providing microcontroller and embedded firmware solutions for electromechanical control across a wide variety of technologies and industries. We have extensive in-house laboratory and rapid prototyping capability including CNCs, 3D printers, waterjet and laser cutters, which help facilitate our ability to prototype and innovate fast. As part of Re:Build Manufacturing, we are able to collaborate with other member sites and leverage a greater network of capabilities including composites, industrial design, structural analysis, and embedded systems design.

Requirements

• BS in computer science, electrical engineering, robotics, or related engineering disciplines.
• 8-12+ years of experience working as a firmware engineer on a variety of hardware platforms, using a diverse set of programming languages, and microcontrollers.
• Experience working in a consulting capacity, having interfaced with internal and external clients.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to describe technical concepts to both peers and non-technical audiences.
• Strong background in electromechanical systems requiring hardware/firmware interaction such as firmware control of actuators, motors, sensors, etc.
• Strong background in debugging hardware/firmware interaction using common lab tools such as logic analyzers, digital multimeters, and oscilloscopes.
• Working knowledge of microcontrollers and their common peripherals such as UART, SPI, I2C, USB, GPIO, ADC, PWM, etc.
• Experience developing embedded software using C/C++ on custom embedded systems.
• Experience using scripting languages (Python, etc.) to control embedded hardware including ARM-based Linux (Raspberry Pi), basic microprocessors (Arduino), or integrated solutions like LabJack.
• Experience using firmware development tools such as IDEs, compilers, debuggers, and cross-compilers.
• Good source-code management, including the use of source control (e.g. git), and good scheduling and issue management practice (e.g. Jira).
• Experience with the implementation of real-time operating systems (FreeRTOS, Zephyr, others).
• A working knowledge of embedded Linux as well as writing drivers and applications.
• Comfortable writing firmware to directly control hardware resources, without an operating system.

Nice To Haves

• Implementation of control algorithms and an understanding of control theory.
• Working knowledge of common regulatory standards such as FCC emission requirements, UL safety standards.
• Understanding of medical device certification (ISO 13485, IEC 62304).

Responsibilities

• Develop embedded software for a wide range of products, including medical devices, robotics solutions, industrial automation products, and consumer electronics.
• Learn across disciplines and acquire additional responsibilities over time.
• Interact directly with customers to learn about their needs, discuss capabilities, and demonstrate solutions.
• Work closely with electrical and mechanical engineers.
• Support hardware demonstrations with customers as needed.
• Become part of a diverse team of engineers that work hard, love what they do, and enjoy a great work-life balance.

Benefits

• Every employee of Re:Build will share ownership in the company and share in the financial rewards of the success we achieve together, at all company levels!

What This Job Offers

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