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Sr. Firmware Engineer

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In-Office
Westlake Village, CA
130K-155K Annually
Senior level
In-Office
Westlake Village, CA
130K-155K Annually
Senior level
Lead firmware architecture and development for consumer and healthcare products. Write and maintain embedded C code, tests, and documentation. Perform hardware bring-up, low-level debugging, collaborate cross-functionally, estimate tasks, support testing and productization, and travel internationally ~10%.
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Job Summary

Ember is seeking an experienced Senior Firmware Engineer to join our team of engineers, to develop and drive innovative products in the consumer and healthcare marketspace. Lead team members to forge and maintain a close working relationship with external contractors, suppliers, and vendors. Oversee and participate in the firmware team contributions to the product concepting process with cross-disciplined engineering teams by way of focus on Industrial Design, User Experience and Sustainability. This role will be hybrid (Tue, Wed & Thu in office) based out of Westlake Village, CA.

Responsibilities

· Provides technical leadership and owns firmware in products within the Company’s portfolio, able to drive product development activities independently and with minimal supervision

· Responsible for the overall firmware architecture of product development

· Write and contribute high-quality code, including new features and bug fixes, to our repository

· Write test applications, programs, formal requirements, and relevant documentation

· Analyze systems and provide software support

· Estimate time required for coding tasks based on requirements and ensure timely follow-through on assignments

· Collaborate with the testing team to promptly identify and repair any bugs

· Maintain the strict and confidentiality of sensitive information

· Perform other job-related duties as required

Requirements and skills

· Firmware Engineer background with 4-year college degree

· 5-10 years Firmware Engineering design experience

· Strong embedded C programming skills, ARM Processors desired

· Experience with common software development tools like IDEs (VS Code), CMake, GNU, GIT, Jira, bash, etc.

· Experience working electronic hardware, microcontrollers, serial communications (USART/I2C/SPI), embedded design, low level debugging using JTAG and similar tools.

· Can read and understand schematics to the level needed to develop embedded software

· Experienced in hardware bring-up.

· Experienced with device productization and launch.

· Familiar with writing code around an Operating System such as FreeRTOS or Zephyr is a plus

· Experience coding applications using radio communications (LTE, BLE, Wifi) is a plus

· General understanding of power management / optimization is a plus

· Working knowledge of product development processes, gates and execution

· Expert comprehension of Microsoft tools (Teams, Excel, Visio, Project and Word)

· Ability to travel overseas approximately 10% of the time

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