Senior Firmware Engineer - Android/Linux BSP

Careers at Crestron•Flower Mound, TX

14h•$107,500 - $173,500•Onsite

About The Position

Crestron Electronics, Inc. is a leader in automation and control solutions, integrating technology for commercial buildings and high-tech real estate. Their products control environments by integrating systems such as Audio Visual, Lighting, Shading, Security, Building Management Systems, and HVAC. The firmware team is seeking a talented and self-motivated engineer with strong embedded software development experience for their next-generation systems. This role involves the full lifecycle of design, development, modification, testing, debugging, and support of embedded software for Linux and Android-based products. The Senior Firmware Engineer for the Android/Linux BSP team will contribute to creating new control system, digital media, and UC products, participating in the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and handling field escalations for both new and legacy products.

Requirements

BS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering is required.
5-8 years of proven experience developing and debugging embedded software for Linux/Android based products, C & C++ development environments.
Must have strong C, & C++ skills.
Must have experience with: Embedded Linux U-Boot/kernel development and customization, Linux Device Tree development, Android HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer).
Device driver development, optimizations, bug fixing, add new functionality (display, power management, wifi, GPIO, etc ).
Debugging issues within the Android Framework and Linux Kernel.
Ability to independently read and understand electrical schematics.
Working with source control tools such as Git, Gerrit, GitHub, and with Android command line tools such as adb and fastboot.
Debugging embedded systems where step debugging may not be available.

Nice To Haves

MS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering is preferred.
HW accelerated graphics processing (OpenGL ES) is beneficial.
Google’s AOSP architecture developing Android framework services, Android Native applications (JNI / NDK) or system applications in JAVA or Kotlin.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, implement, debug and maintain embedded real time applications for Android/Linux based products C, & C++ development environments.
Embedded Linux Kernel / OS development on ARM based platforms including configuration management, build, deployment, hardware interfaces, device driver, device tree.
Work closely with other software and hardware engineers to solve design issues.
Responsible for design and implementation of new device features on multiple platforms.
Responsible for the maintenance of current software including: feature enhancements, performance increases, troubleshooting, testing, and bug fixing.
Interfacing software applications with other devices and control systems.
Providing technical documentation (test procedures, design specifications, etc.).
Other duties as assigned.