Firmware Engineer: Embedded Controls & Sensors

BTS Software Solutions; Aberdeen (MD); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive health benefits

PTO

401K matching

Job summary

BTS Software Solutions is seeking a Firmware Engineer - Embedded Controls / Sensors to support I2WD at Aberdeen Proving Ground. You will develop and modify embedded firmware for advanced hardware systems including gimbals, optics, motors, and sensors, ensuring robust performance in critical missions.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate hardware, debug real-time embedded systems, and apply low-level software expertise to cross-domain challenges.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI security clearance required.
• Experience developing or modifying embedded firmware in C/C++ or similar low-level languages.
• Experience with microcontrollers, embedded processors, or SoCs and peripherals.
• Experience interfacing with hardware using SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, PWM, ADC/DAC.
• Experience developing firmware for motors, actuators, sensors, optics, gimbals, or electromechanical systems.
• Strong understanding of real-time embedded systems, interrupts, timers, memory management, and hardware interfaces.
• Experience debugging firmware and hardware with lab equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, debuggers).
• Ability to read schematics, datasheets, and existing firmware to modify embedded systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, modify, and debug low-level firmware for embedded processors.
• Integrate sensors, actuators, imaging systems, and control hardware.
• Work with electrical, mechanical, software, and systems engineers.
• Troubleshoot complex hardware/firmware interactions.
• Support firmware updates and lab verification against hardware.

Skills

Embedded firmware

C/C++

Microcontrollers/SoCs

Hardware interfaces (SPI/I2C/UART/CAN)

RTOS/bare-metal

Oscilloscopes/logic analyzers

Schematics/datasheets

Real-time systems

Tools

JTAG/SWD debuggers

Job description

BTS Software Solutions is seeking a Firmware Engineer - Embedded Controls / Sensors to support I2WD at Aberdeen Proving Ground. You will develop and modify embedded firmware for advanced hardware systems including gimbals, optics, motors, and sensors, ensuring robust performance in critical missions.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate hardware, debug real-time embedded systems, and apply low-level software expertise to cross-domain challenges.