What are the responsibilities and job description for the EXPERIENCED FIRMWARE DESIGN ENGINEER position at Invocon, Inc.?
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Role Description
Invocon is seeking an experienced Firmware Design Engineer for a full-time, on-site role in Conroe, TX. The candidate will perform firmware design and coding associated with new and existing products. This will entail designing and configuring solutions for a variety of industries and applications including: communications, aerospace, wireless data acquisition, "smart" sensors, condition-based maintenance, RF Networking, and micro-miniature sensors.
Key Responsibilities
As a Firmware Design Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Firmware Design and Implementation including the creation and maintenance of the build system and tailoring of linker scripts.
- Firmware Testing including unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end system testing.
- Documentation including design documentation and user documentation.
- Interacting with the system engineers to collect requirements and verify functionality.
- Maintaining previously developed firmware products
- Maintaining and supporting firmware products that you developed which includes traveling to customer’s sites to operate or witness the use of the products.
As part of the job, you will gain experience in some or all of the following areas:
- Object-Oriented (OO) Design using C/C which includes applying OO principles to C.
- Assembly Language Programming
- Embedded development for System-On-a-Chip solutions and microcontrollers using a combination of C and Assembly
- Systems engineering including specifying hardware requirements for future products
- Test automation using Python to control test equipment and the device under test
Qualifications
All applicants will need to adequately demonstrate qualifications including the following:
- 3 years of experience developing embedded firmware
- 3 years of experience programming using C/C and/or assembly language
- 3 years of experience with supporting the full software development life-cycle
- 3 years of experience with ARM, MicroBlaze, MSP430, PIC18, or CC111x a plus.
- Experience with git, mercurial (Hg), or Surround SCM and Helix ALM a plus.
- 2 years of experience with Object Oriented Programming (C ) highly desired.
Master's candidates should have project work and/or coursework in software engineering. Demonstrated software engineering analysis leading to a specific software design approach is very desirable. This analysis should include considerations of hardware, software, and all other issues needed to derive a product.
Degrees & Majors we look for in Software Design Engineers
- Bachelor of Computer Science
- Master of Computer Science
- Bachelor of Computer Engineering
- Master of Computer Engineering
Qualified individuals should fax or mail cover letter, resume, and completed application (http://www.invocon.com/downloads/Invocon_Employment_Application.pdf) to Invocon Recruiting. (EEO)