Senior / Staff Embedded Firmware Engineer

Entrust; Minnesota; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Entrust in Minnesota is seeking a Senior/Staff Embedded Firmware Engineer to join the product development team. You will design firmware for embedded controllers powering motors, sensors, and printing/personalization workflows used in secure identity solutions.

The role requires strong C/C++ expertise, experience with Linux-based RTOS, Yocto/OpenEmbedded, and hardware/software integration. You will collaborate across disciplines to meet security and performance goals.

Qualifications

• 5+ years with embedded software/hardware in product development.
• Bachelor's in Computer/Electrical Engineering or CS or equivalent.
• 6+ years in C/C++ within embedded development environments.

Responsibilities

• Design firmware for embedded controllers in hardware products.
• Develop, test, debug, and document firmware components.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure security and performance.

Skills

Embedded firmware design

C/C++

Bug solving

System integration

Communication

initiative

Education

Bachelor's in Computer/Electrical Engineering or CS

Master's preferred

Tools

Git/Subversion

Yocto/OpenEmbedded

Linux RTOS

Linux kernel knowledge

Job description

Join us at Entrust

At Entrust, we're shaping the future of identity centric security solutions. From our comprehensive portfolio of solutions to our flexible, global workplace, we empower careers, foster collaboration, and build solutions that help keep the world moving safely.

Get to Know Us

Headquartered in Minnesota, Entrust is an industry leader in identity-centric security solutions, serving over 150 countries with cutting-edge, scalable technologies. But our secret weapon? Our people. It's the curiosity, dedication, and innovation that drive our success and help us anticipate the future.

Position Overview

Entrust is seeking a Senior / Staff Embedded Firmware Engineer to work within our product development team. This individual will perform the responsibilities outlined below and other duties as assigned. Join a talented and dynamic team of engineers developing systems used to print and personalize credit cards, passports, driver's licenses, national IDs and more.

The Entrust Firmware team plays a key role in bringing this wide range of hardware products to life through use of embedded control of motors, sensors, vision systems, and huge variety of personalization technologies, including smart card chip programming, laser engraving, and printing. The team works closely with other Engineering disciplines as well as cross-functional teams to ensure our products meet the highest level of security and integrity, all while achieving industry leading levels of performance.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for system firmware design and product architecture of embedded controller systems.


• Responsible for design/development, coding, testing, debugging, implementation and documentation of embedded firmware components or applications.


• Developing firmware for digital, analog, RF, power, and motion control systems.


• Participation in design and code reviews, hardware/software integration and development test.


• Understand and perform design trade-offs in a collaborative team environment.


• Provide schedule input and communicate status to various levels of management, peers and team members.


• Develop or contribute to development and maintenance of policies, practices and standards.


• Continuously improve work processes to enable team efficiencies.


• Resolve product issues through problem evaluation, code modifications, development testing, and coordination with product support team members.


• Create product enhancements from requirements with an emphasis on system-wide benefit and risk impact, iterative design, and thorough development testing.

Basic Qualifications

• 5 - 8+ years' experience with embedded software, hardware and/or firmware in a product development environment.


• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent technical degree.


• Extensive experience (6+ years) with C++ and/or C in an embedded development environment.


• Experience with embedded Linux, VxWorks or other embedded real time operating system.


• Experience working with Yocto Project/OpenEmbedded for Linux system development.


• Experience with development processes, methodologies, and tools.


• Experience with revision control systems, e.g. Subversion, Git.


• Experience with unit and integration test methodologies.


• Shows strong analytical and problem solving skills.


• Displays a high level of initiative and ability to deliver results on technical projects.


• Exhibits good engineering judgment and decision making.


• Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to prepare written specifications.


• Must have unrestricted work authorization for US.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science.


• Experience in Linux kernel development.


• Experience in one or more of the following areas
  
  
  
  • Motor control.
  
  
  • Smartcard technology.
  
  
  • Color printing technology.
  
  
  • RFID technology.
  
  
  • Security concepts including encryption, PKI and vulnerability mitigation.
  
  
  • Laser control.
  
  
  • Networking protocols.
  
  
  • Scripting languages.
  
  
  
  


• Proficiency using AI tools to assist with code generation, analysis, documentation, and scripting.


• Ability to work autonomously with cross functional team members.

Where you will be

This role requires five days in the office for the first six months, with the option to transition to a hybrid schedule of three days per week onsite in Minneapolis, MN. Entrust operates with a distributed workforce.

About Entrust

Our growing company relies on curious, dedicated and innovative colleagues to anticipate the future and provide solutions for a more connected, mobile and secure world. Entrust technologies and expertise help government agencies, enterprises and financial institutions in more than 150 countries serve and safeguard citizens, employees and consumers. Each year, our solutions secure billions of tran