Position: Sr. Firmware Engineer
Type: Direct Hire
Location: Fredericksburg, VA
Salary Range: $120K-$140K, Based on Experience
SUMMARY
Kelly Engineering is looking for a Senior Firmware Engineer for a direct hire position with our client located in Fredericksburg, VA. The client is dedicated to developing cutting-edge thermal test solutions for the semiconductor industry. To meet new industry challenges, they seek to expand their multi-disciplined engineering team with a highly skilled Sr. Firmware Design Engineer. If you are a proactive and self-motivated engineer keen on understanding entire systems and applying this knowledge to transform concepts into outstanding products, we want you to join our team. This role involves the full lifecycle development of custom thermal control application firmware. As part of a multi-disciplinary engineering team, you will contribute to providing innovative thermal test cooling solutions for the Data Center industry.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to develop thermal control products, incorporating a variety of custom thermal forcing hardware
- Engage in the full lifecycle development of custom thermal control application firmware
- Support proof-of-concept studies
- Utilize tuning parameters to affect the dynamic performance of feedback control systems
- Maintain and enhance firmware for existing thermal products
- Develop firmware using Qt/C++ for application development on Linux OS targets and C for non-OS/bare-metal targets
REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, along with more than 10 years of relevant experience
- At least 4 years of experience in embedded system programming using C or C++
- Proficiency in interfacing with common communication methods such as TCP/IP, I2C, SPI, and RS-232
- Experience in interfacing with low-level analog hardware using ADC, DAC, and PWM
- Ability to understand schematics and IC operations, and design low-level drivers
DESIRED SKILLS
- 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)