What are the responsibilities and job description for the Embedded Systems Engineer position at Howard Technology Solutions?
*This role requires working on-site at company headquarters in Ellisville, Mississippi.
Job Description:
Howard Medical, a division of Howard Technology Solution, is seeking to fill the position of an experienced Embedded Systems Engineer in our Research and Development group. This is a full time, permanent position.
Principal activities include:
- Develop firmware for microcontroller-based electronic devices, including analog and digital I/O, motor controllers, board-to-board communications, network communications, and USB.
- Work within multidisciplinary team to develop software design goals.
- Generate project resource requirements and development schedule.
- Create documentation and specifications.
- Select operating systems, programming languages, and development tools.
- Assist in selection of microcontrollers and other board level hardware.
- Write test plans and direct activities of technicians to validate firmware.
- Work closely with hardware designers to ensure design goals are met.
- Coordinate efforts with development team working on associated Windows-based software.
Desired Skills and Expertise:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science.
- 5 years of relevant experience.
- Experience with embedded systems prototyping, startup, debug, and testing.
- Project management and strong communication skills, both written and verbal, are desired.
- Knowledge of USB, TCP/IP, and communication busses like CAN and I²C, is required.
- Experience with MPLab IDE and/or the Cortex M4 platform is a plus.
- Experience in low-power design methods desired.
- Experience in either hardware design and/or Windows application development in C or .NET is a definite plus.
- Applicants should be self-starters and able to work independently