Senior Embedded Software Engineer (Onsite/Sparks, MD)

Opening for a full product lifecycle bare metal embedded firmware engineer familiar with techniques and tooling of C/C++ microcontroller development in medical test equipment. The developer supports multiple bare metal C/C++ object oriented firmware applications ranging from implementing business logic, temperature control, motion control, and lighting/UI interfacing to inter-board or inter system communications using serial and TCP protocols.

This embedded developer designs, programs, and tests firmware to achieve goals established for the project, and provides documentation of design and interfaces to other groups. This person works with the Electrical Engineering department to understand and advise the required hardware interfaces, the Application software teams to communicate and understand the required system interfaces, and be able to self manage interfacing to Analysts and Product Owners to gather and implement logical requirements. The developer also works with the test group to assist in defining reliable regression and system tests, as well as establishing an understanding of how the FW works.

This developer belongs within an embedded firmware development team working in a modified Agile Kanban environment with a focus on on-time delivery, integration of hardware and firmware without the application, and high reliability and uptime. Integration with manufacturing and support of current instruments are as fundamental as developing new features to this team.

Every candidate must:

• Be able to communicate designs and interfaces effectively and efficiently
• Present themselves clearly and professionally
• Have minimum of 5 years professional experience
• Have minimum of 2 years of embedded microcontroller programming
• Have minimum 3 years of recent C/C++ (C97 or better) experience
• Have minimum 1 year experience in RTOS
• Bare metal programming and hardware interfacing
• Have Microsoft tool experience: Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Be able to switch between support and development as needed
• Understand source control systems and specifically GIT and GITFLOW

The ideal candidate would have experience in:

• FreeRTOS and FreeRTOS + TCP
• Visual Studio and GCC/OpenOCD toolchains
• Serial interfaces: USART/UART, RS232, RS422, RS485, CAN, I2C, SPI
• TCP/IP wire level protocols
• Automated unit testing and GTest
• Flash memory management/programming
• Bare metal Embedded development and debugging
• STM32 microcontrollers
• Bootloaders and bootloading to an embedded application
• Object oriented design/object oriented programming
• C# for user interface and testing purposes
• Logic analyzers and oscilloscopes
• Schematic interpretation and some hardware design
• Contributing to the training less experienced developers
• Participating in defining process and procedure improvements to a team
• Agile and Safe Agile, Kanban and scrum
• Working in a regulated environment, e.g. Medical devices or Medical test Equipment

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Primary Work Location

USA MD - Sparks - 7 Loveton Circle

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$90,000.00 - $148,400.00 USD Annual