What are the responsibilities and job description for the FIRMWARE ENGINEER Communications Emphasis position at Advanced Motion Controls?
We are looking for an experienced Firmware Engineer to be a key contributor within our Embedded Products Development Team. This team develops state of the art embedded features and products associated with servo controls for motion systems and robotics applications.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement effective, robust, and sustainable code for projects targeting our embedded servo amplifier platform, while working within a multi-developer team construct.
- Analyze customer requests while creating engineering requirements and specifications.
- Provide functional analysis, estimate resource allocation and define interfaces for firmware modules.
- Work with software developers to ensure inter-operability between host and embedded systems.
- Create specifications and complete unit testing prior to release and customer evaluation.
- Additional job duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
- Work Experience (post-graduate): 4 years with BS degree or 2 years with MS degree developing embedded firmware in C/C .
- Must have ISO Data Link layer implementation experience on at least one real-time 100baseT networking protocol. (Ideally (ECT, Profinet, UDP and TCP/IP).Driver Level)
- Experience with memory operations, serial peripherals (SPI, I2C, CAN), and interrupts.
- Experience with low-level device driver design for microcontrollers in real-time environments.
- Ability to read and follow electrical schematics.
- Good communications skills.
- We are ITAR Registered. Hired candidate must be a US Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident.
- This is a full-time position located at our Camarillo, CA facility.
Education:
- Minimum: BS degree in electrical, computer engineering, or equivalent.
Preferred:
- Knowledge of 100baseT networking protocols (UDP and TCP/IP) used in motion control
- Experience with real time code development Texas Instruments and ARM processors.
- Experience with Bootloader design.
- Experience with Functional Safety.
- Ability to write desktop test utilities in C /C# or scripting language (Perl/Python/TCL).
- Experience with motor control or electrical power conversion concepts.
Pay Range: $110,000 to $145,000 annual salary.
Advanced Motion Controls considers several factors when extending an offer of employment, including but not limited to: the candidate’s education/training, work experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, responsibilities of the position, internal pay equity, as well as market and business considerations.
ADVANCED Motion Controls prohibits discrimination or harassment based on the following categories: race, color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age (40 years and over), sexual orientation, veteran and/or military status, protected medical leaves (requesting or approved for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act or the California Family Rights Act), domestic violence victim status, political affiliation, and any other status protected by state or federal law. ADVANCED Motion Controls is ITAR Registered (International Traffic In Arms Regulations). Any candidate we hire must be a US Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident.
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Salary : $110,000 - $145,000
