What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Firmware Engineer position at Montek System?
Job Title: Senior Firmware Engineer
Work Location: Mahwah, NJ (Onsite)
Duration: 6 Months Contract
Notes: Kindly submit candidates with strong long-term project history (2–3 years per project in last 3–4 roles); short-term contracts will not be considered. Also candidate should be residing local to NJ or within 100 miles.
Main Focus:
Embedded C OR Embedded C
Hardware troubleshooting
Board Bring-up
Low-level Firmware development
Primary Skills:
For this particular firmware role, we are looking for someone with a stronger hands-on background in hardware troubleshooting, board bring-up, and low-level firmware development.
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Firmware Engineer to help design, build, and scale the embedded systems that power Chefman’s connected kitchen products. This role sits at the intersection of hardware, firmware, cloud, and user experience, working closely with UX, Culinary, Video, Software, and Hardware Engineering teams to deliver reliable, high-quality products from concept through production and beyond.
The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on experience with embedded firmware development, strong architectural judgment, and a passion for building scalable, maintainable systems in a fast-paced consumer product environment. You will play a key role in technical decision-making, code quality, system performance, and the evolution of our embedded platform as we continue to expand our connected product ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with UX, Culinary, Video, Software, and Hardware Engineering Teams to review requirements, design and implement features for our kitchen product assortment
- Produce well designed, high quality and reusable code by applying design patterns and best practices in software development for agility, reliability, and scalability of the application
- Refactor code base from time to time to improve performance, reliability and maintainability of the application
- Contribute to architecture, instrumentation and performance design decisions
- Write unit and integration tests
- Participate in code reviews
- Carry out testing and debugging
- Improve efficiency of deployment and testing via CI/CD processes
- Triage and resolve issues reported by QE or other users
- Participate in daily standups and weekly sync-up meetings with stakeholders
- Participate in sprint planning sessions by reviewing goals and grooming stories
- Scale architecture with modern technologies such as Docker while leveraging the AWS platform and Atlassian software (Bitbucket pipelines, Jira automation, etc.)
- Effectively connecting to a culture of delivering high quality content around the brand vision
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, or equivalent degrees
- 10 years of experience in electronic product development involving analog and digital circuit designs with 32-bit ARM microcontrollers
- 10 years of experience with C/C
- Experience in wired (UART, SPI, I2C) and wireless communication
- Experience working and collaborating in a team setting using version control systems such as Git and following Software Development best practices (SDLC) using tools like Jira and Confluence
- Ability to troubleshoot hardware using tools such as scope, logic analyzer, spectrum analyzer, JTAG, etc.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
Desired Skills and Experience
- Good understanding of application bootloader and over the air firmware update
- Experience architecting and designing systems for embedded applications
- Experience with real-time operating system (RTOS), Wi-Fi/Bluetooth communication, and a good understanding of the network stack such as TCP/IP protocol
- Familiar with implementing IOT products using ESP module and LCD display is a plus
- Experience working in an agile environment within the scrum framework
- High level knowledge of software engineering and cloud environments
- Ability to work with minimal supervision and to participate and contribute positively when working with different teams
- Demonstrated initiative and ability to complete projects, document work and communicate clearly both in writing and verbally
Salary : $50 - $55