Senior Firmware Engineer / Developer

Acara Solutions, Inc.; Abbotsford; Presencial; CAD 110.000 - 140.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Acara Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Senior Firmware Engineer to join a multidisciplinary team delivering high-quality tools for the industrial bolting industry. You will design, develop and deploy firmware solutions for next-generation products and help lead a firmware development team.

Responsibilities include developing firmware across products, validating designs, and mentoring junior engineers while adhering to industry best practices and documentation standards.

Formación

• 5+ years of firmware development experience.
• 10+ years of C/C++ programming experience.
• Product development for manufacturing is an asset.

Responsabilidades

• Develop firmware for a range of products.
• Develop firmware for new products, sustaining efforts and custom solutions.
• Develop firmware as part of a multidiscipline project team.
• Review problem statements, customer requirements and engineering requirements.
• Propose engineering and firmware solutions in response to requirements.
• Provide analysis of, and estimates for, relevant development efforts.
• Decompose solutions from higher level architectures to lower level firmware components.
• Align development efforts across firmware and multidiscipline colleagues.
• Debug, troubleshoot and verify firmware and system implementations.
• Execute firmware development, adhering to best practices and coding standards.
• Create and maintain design documentation (including UML, Doxygen).
• Maintain and continuously improve firmware development processes and best practices
• Manage work on multiple competing projects, aligning prioritization with stakeholders.
• Mentor peer and junior firmware developers.

Conocimientos

Firmware principles

C programming (embedded)

Debugging embedded systems

OO design

RTOS and concurrency

MCU/SoC peripherals

I2C/SPI/UART/TCP-IP

Testing of firmware

Lab equipment

Educación

Bachelors in electronics or computer engineering

P.Eng. status or eligibility asset

Herramientas

Git

SVN

Yocto / Linux

IDEs & debuggers

Descripción del empleo

• Job Type: Direct Placement
• Duration: Direct Placement

The Opportunity

The Senior Firmware Engineer will join the firmware team, and become part of a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for delivering high quality, high performance tools for the industrial bolting industry. You will design, develop and deploy innovative firmware solutions for the next generation of our products. You will contribute to both system level and firmware level (embedded software) design efforts. Opportunities exist for senior developers to become technical lead for a firmware development team.

The Role and Responsibilities

• Develop firmware for a range of products.
• Develop firmware for new products, sustaining efforts and custom solutions.
• Develop firmware as part of a multidiscipline project team.
• Review problem statements, customer requirements and engineering requirements.
• Propose engineering and firmware solutions in response to requirements.
• Provide analysis of, and estimates for, relevant development efforts.
• Decompose solutions from higher level architectures to lower level firmware components.
• Align development efforts across firmware and multidiscipline colleagues.
• Debug, troubleshoot and verify firmware and system implementations.
• Execute firmware development, adhering to NWT best practices and coding standards.
• Create and maintain design documentation (including UML, Doxygen).
• Maintain and continuously improve firmware development processes and best practices
• Manage work on multiple competing projects, aligning prioritization with stakeholders.
• Mentor peer and junior firmware developers.
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Education

• Bachelor's degree in electronic or computer engineering or equivalent
• Professional engineer (P.Eng.) status or eligibility is an asset.

Experience

• 5+ years of firmware development experience.
• 10+ years of C/C++ programming experience.
• Product development for manufacturing is an asset.

Skills

Core Technical Skills

• Understanding of firmware development principles.
• C programming for embedded systems.
• Debugging and trouble shooting embedded systems.
• Object oriented design and programming.
• Understanding of real-time and concurrency design principles.
• Understanding of microcontroller architecture.
• Understanding of microcontroller / SoC peripherals (ADC, PWM, etc.)
• Understanding of communication protocols (I2C, SPI, UART, TCP/IP, etc.)
• Development of RTOS based systems (e.g. FreeRTOS).
• Development of Linux systems (e.g. Yocto).
• Implementation of firmware unit tests (black box and white box testing).
• Use of firmware development tools: debuggers, IDEs.
• Able to read and interpret electronic schematics.
• Use of laboratory equipment: oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers.
• Use of source code management tools (SVN, Git, etc.)
• Familiar with the full SDLC (requirements, design, implement, debug, test, release, support).
• Creation of effective design documentation (e.g. high level designs, UML, etc.)

Additional Skills (considered an asset)

• Firmware integration of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi modules.
• Digital signal processing, fixed point arithmetic, mathematical analysis.
• Motor control algorithms.

Soft Skills

• You have exceptional organizational and time-management skills.
• You have exceptional communication skills, written and verbal.
• You can easily communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
• You are able to organize and lead complex projects through a full development life cycle.
• You are self-motivated, take ownership and are able to work with minimal supervision.
• You excel in a team environment that requires collaboration and communication.
• You provide and welcome constructive feedback.
• You are a strong advocate for quality, best practices and traceability.

Acara Solutions is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for applicants and employees. We are committed to filling open positions using balanced selection criteria to avoid unlawful discrimination against applicants on the basis of their age, colour, disability, marital status, national origin, gender, gender identity, genetic information, race or racial origin, religion, sexual orientation, or any other status protected or required by law.

Acara Solutions welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates participating in all aspects of the selection process.