Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer - ARM, Battery & Lighting

Videndum plc; MacGregor Park (NC); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Collaborative engineering environment

Opportunities for growth

Job summary

Videndum plc is seeking an experienced Embedded Firmware Engineer III to design, implement and test firmware for professional battery, power, and LED lighting products used in cinema, broadcast, and content creation. You will work across hardware, software and test teams from concept through production to deliver robust firmware.

The role emphasizes solid Embedded C, ARM Cortex‑M experience, real-time OS familiarity, and strong debugging skills for end-to-end product lifecycles.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in a related technical field.
• 5+ years of embedded firmware development experience with commercial hardware products.
• Advanced programming in Embedded C.
• Strong experience with ARM Cortex‑M microcontrollers.
• Experience with RTOS such as ThreadX or FreeRTOS.
• Experience with hardware bring-up, embedded debugging, device drivers, and communication protocols.
• Familiarity with Git, CMake, GNU Arm toolchain, and CI/CD practices.
• Ability to read schematics and troubleshoot hardware/firmware interactions.
• Experience writing maintainable, well-documented firmware and collaborating across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, document, and maintain embedded firmware for battery, power, and LED lighting products.
• Develop bootloader and application firmware for ARM Cortex‑M microcontrollers.
• Create reusable embedded C libraries with unit tests and documentation.
• Develop production‑quality firmware across the product lifecycle.
• Perform board bring‑up and on‑target debugging.
• Troubleshoot firmware using schematics, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG/SWD tools.
• Develop low‑level device drivers and hardware interfaces.
• Develop firmware for DMX512, RDM, CRMX, Art‑Net, sACN, Bluetooth LE and Wi‑Fi provisioning, and MQTT cloud connectivity.
• Plan and conduct structured verification and regression testing; conduct battery lifecycle, thermal, and load testing.
• Develop Python tools for test automation, data collection, calibration and engineering analysis.
• Support firmware releases and manufacturing; assist with regulatory testing; troubleshoot field issues.
• Collaborate across engineering teams throughout product development.

Skills

Embedded firmware

ARM Cortex-M

Embedded C

RTOS (ThreadX/FreeRTOS)

Hardware bring-up

Embedded debugging

Device drivers

Communication protocols

Git

CMake

GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Git

CMake

GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain

CI/CD tooling

Segger J-Link

J-Flash

Job description

Videndum plc is seeking an experienced Embedded Firmware Engineer III to design, implement and test firmware for professional battery, power, and LED lighting products used in cinema, broadcast, and content creation. You will work across hardware, software and test teams from concept through production to deliver robust firmware.

The role emphasizes solid Embedded C, ARM Cortex‑M experience, real-time OS familiarity, and strong debugging skills for end-to-end product lifecycles.