Senior Firmware Engineer
About The Position
You will work autonomously to design, develop, and optimize firmware solutions that ensure the safe, efficient, and reliable operation of our embedded platform and battery management systems. This includes shipping new features and having direct responsibility for the firmware in company-level projects. Your work will directly impact the performance and longevity of our battery-powered devices. This involves writing drivers that interface with sensors, scheduling, and timing microcontroller tasks, and interfacing with higher-level apps. Lead and mentor engineers through quality review, pair-programming, brainstorming, and testing.
Requirements
- Be a good human - get along with the team, build strong working relationships, and execute on Dephy’s Values.
- Experience designing, developing, and maintaining embedded firmware dedicated to battery designs. This would be systems that are wireless, and includes the battery management systems
- Proven knowledge of C/C++ programming for embedded systems, Python, microcontrollers (STM32, TI), and real-time operating systems (RTOS).
- Demonstrated experience in interfacing with hardware modules and hardware debugging. Skilled with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, hand tools and soldering.
- Familiarity with Altium or other electronic design platforms.
- Experience with ARM microprocessors.
- Strong foundation in implementing firmware features that enable accurate monitoring of embedded systems parameters such as voltage, current, and temperature.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with a cross-functional team to implement, develop, and execute rigorous testing plans to validate firmware functionality and reliability.
- Demonstrated expertise in ensuring firmware meets safety standards and regulatory requirements, incorporating fault detection, diagnostic routines, and fail-safe mechanisms to protect battery integrity.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to diagnose and resolve issues related to firmware, working closely with cross-functional teams to address and resolve problems.
- Professional history with creating and maintaining comprehensive documentation of firmware design, development processes, and testing procedures.
- Experience with Git.
- Experience with Linux and Windows.
Nice To Haves
- 7+ years of work experience in firmware/ embedded development
- Up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies embedded systems.
- Experience tracking tasks, planning sprints, and maintaining the backlog of high-level projects.
- Familiarity with mentoring and sharing knowledge with all team members, including other engineers, co-ops, and interns, by assigning tasks, training, peer-programming, and giving feedback when necessary.
- Experience with TDD
- Atlassian tools (Jira and Confluence)
Responsibilities
- design, develop, and optimize firmware solutions
- shipping new features
- writing drivers that interface with sensors
- scheduling, and timing microcontroller tasks
- interfacing with higher-level apps
- Lead and mentor engineers through quality review, pair-programming, brainstorming, and testing
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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