Boyd Thermal by Eaton - Firmware Engineer

Boyd Corporation; Fredericksburg, Northern (VA, KY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Boyd Corp in Fredericksburg, VA, seeks a Senior Firmware Design Engineer for full lifecycle development of thermal control firmware. You will join a multi-disciplinary team and contribute to Linux-based applications using Qt/C++ and C for bare-metal targets.

Requirements: a Bachelor's in EE/CE/CS and 10+ years in embedded systems; experience with TCP/IP, I2C/SPI/RS-232, ADC/DAC/PWM, and PID tuning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field.
• 10+ years of related experience.
• 4+ years experience in embedded system programming in C or C++.
• Experience interfacing with TCP/IP, and I2C,SPI,RS-232.
• Experience interfacing with low-level analog hardware via ADC,DAC, and PWM.
• Ability to understand schematics and IC operation and designing low-level drivers.

Responsibilities

• Full lifecycle development of custom thermal control application firmware.
• Develop thermal control products involving a diverse set of custom thermal forcing hardware.
• Maintain and enhance firmware on existing thermal products.
• Support proof-of-concept studies.
• Using tuning parameters to effect dynamic performance of feedback control systems.

Skills

Embedded C/C++

TCP/IP

I2C/SPI/RS-232

Low-level drivers

PID tuning

Linux dev

Qt GUI

Multi-threading

Hardware interfacing

Education

Bachelor's degree in EE/CE/CS

Tools

Qt

Debian

Visual Studio

WebIQ

Job description

Job Description Firmware Engineer Job Profile Summary The Firmware Design Engineer is responsible for full lifecycle development of custom thermal control application firmware. Job Description Boyd’s Thermal Test and Control Systems division, located in Phoenix, Arizona, is developing innovative thermal test solutions for the semiconductor industry. The engineering team is seeking to grow our multi-disciplined engineering team to tackle new challenges in the industry and is seeking a talented Firmware Design Engineer to fill a critical role within the team. If you are a motivated and self-starting engineer interested in understanding entire systems and applying your understanding to turn concepts into great products, we are looking forward to you joining our team.

General Responsibilities

The Firmware Design Engineer will be a member of a multi-discipled engineering team to provide innovative thermal test solutions to the semiconductor industry. The role will include:

• Working with multi-discipline team to develop thermal control products involving a diverse set of custom thermal forcing hardware
• Full lifecycle development of custom thermal control application firmware
• Supporting proof-of-concept studies
• Using tuning parameters to effect dynamic performance of feedback control systems
• Maintenance and enhancement of firmware on existing thermal products
• Firmware development using Qt/C++ for application development for Linux OS target and using C for non-OS/bare-metal target.

Experience / Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field and 10+ years of related experience.
• 4+ years experience in embedded system programming in C or C++
• Experience interfacing with common communication methods such as TCP/IP, and I2C,SPI,RS-232
• Experience interfacing with low-level analog hardware via ADC,DAC, and PWM
• Ability to understand schematics and IC operation and designing 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)

All Job Posting Locations

Fredericksburg Remote Type On-Site

EEO Statement

Boyd Corp is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Boyd is the trusted global innovator of sustainable solutions that make our customers’ products better, safer, faster, and more reliable. As a leader in the industry we focus on our people, customers, technology, innovation, materials, and market needs of today and performance requirements of the future. We are always looking for ambitious minds to help us deliver advanced technology to our customers. Together we solve the challenges of today and empower solutions of tomorrow. Boyd is the world’s leading innovator in sustainable engineered material that make our customers’ products better, safer, faster, and more reliable. We develop and combine technologies to solve ambitious performance targets in our customers’ most critical applications. By implementing technologies and material science in novel ways to seal, protect, cool, and interface, Boyd has continually redefined the possible and championed customer success for over 90 years.