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Title: Firmware DVE 
Duration: Project Based Long-Term Vendor 
Location: Redmond, WA
Benefits: Employee benefits at 100% including Medical, PTO, Holiday Pay, 401K Plan and much more!
Hours: Minimum 40 Hours/Week 

Role:
• Lead efforts to analyze, design, develop, and debug firmware for a wide variety of AR and VR devices, including novel sensing and imaging systems, haptic devices, and audio prototypes
• Understand and implement firmware on micro-controllers, leverage peripherals, manage power consumption, support boot loaders, and schedule real-time tasks (RTOS)
• Collaborate in a team environment across multiple, research focused, and engineering disciplines, making the architectural tradeoffs required to rapidly deliver firmware solutions
• Support all phases of custom hardware development - including early architecture requirements definition, firmware architecture, proof-of-concept implementation, selection of MCUs and tools, and board bring-up

Skills:
• 3 years of experience in embedded firmware design or equivalent experience
• Participate in a dynamic cross-functional team to distill market demand into actionable software design specifications.
• Work closely with external partners and internal resources.
• Research and validate new technologies to maximize innovation and minimize time to market.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Android experience a plus
• Internet of things knowledge a plus
• Experience with peripherals such as USB, SPI, MIPI CSI/DSI, I2C, UART, GPIO etc.
• Experience with wireless or wired communication protocols such as USB, TCP/IP, Ethernet, Bluetooth and 802.11
• Experience with embedded Linux, Kernel, Yocto, Buildroot, etc.
• Experience maximizing performance of resource constrained systems
• Experience with either an RTOS-based or bare metal system
• Experience with high-compute/throughput systems and using sim/modeling to estimate performance and power
• Extensive Experience developing embedded firmware using C & C
• Have previously worked on development of embedded platforms (e.g. MSP430, ARM, Atmel AVR, STM32, etc.)
• Experience implementing and debugging communications protocols such as SPI, I2C. Etc
• Experience with bare metal systems (no OS) and/or embedded OS (e.g. Embedded Linux, FreeRTOS, etc.)
• Experience with microcontroller execution model and memory architecture
• Experience working with Python and understanding of Linux operating system
• Ability to read electrical schematics and understand the impact on firmware operations

Education: B.S./M.S. degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field

FRESH--
- Work on engineering and research assignments with F500 companies and startups.
- The relationships that we have created with our clients are one of a kind.
- We help solve problems in many technologies focusing on R&D, product development, and manufacturing.
- We work at the most cutting-edge and latest technologies from AR/VR to Autonomous technologies.
- Closely working with our clients, we believe that long term investments are extremely important to maintain the culture we together have created.

We’re a handpicked team of Engineers, digital strategist, designers, and developers united together in creating a fresh experience. Whether we are strategizing, designing, developing, or analyzing, our integrated team works as an extension of yours to improve your impact, your usability, and your customer conversion. In the process, we collaborate with you to get to know your business, understand your industry, and incorporate your big ideas into memorable experiences that keep your customers coming back for more.

Fresh Consulting is a participating E-Verify company.

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Range - $50/hr - $70/hr - depends on location, experience and other factors.