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Senor Firmware Engineer

OTT HydroMet
Fort Collins, CO Full Time
POSTED ON 7/11/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 8/9/2026
Imagine yourself…

  • Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you.
  • Thriving in a supportive team environment that inspires you to strive for excellence.
  • Contributing to a brighter, more sustainable future.


It’s possible with a role at Ott, where you’ll have the chance to shape the future of your career—and the future of our planet.

At Ott, a Veralto company, you’ll help protect the world’s water resources with trusted, connected monitoring solutions. Join a team delivering decision-ready intelligence that helps customers manage water with clarity and confidence—from one site to global networks.

As part of Ott and the broader Veralto network, you’ll do work that matters—helping deliver solutions with real-world impact while building your skills and growing your career.

We offer:

  • Professional onboarding and training options
  • Powerful team looking forward to working with you
  • Career coaching and development opportunities
  • Health benefits
  • 401(k)


Reporting to the Director of R&D Loggers, the Senior Firmware Engineer leads and implements software features, ensures delivery of high-quality, secure code, and collaborates across teams to sustain and grow applications. This role includes debugging complex issues, mentoring junior engineers, and staying current with evolving technologies to guide best practices.

This position is part of the Engineering team located onsite in Loveland, CO.

In this role, a typical day will look like:

  • Lead and attend design sessions for product features
  • Implement product features with minimal oversight
  • Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies
  • Contribute to software architecture decisions with maintainability and extensibility in mind
  • Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware
  • Ensure delivery of high-quality code that optimizes the company's investment
  • Continually sustain and grow the embedded software, especially as technologies change.


The essential requirements of the job include:

  • Bachelor's degree or 3 years of relevant software development experience
  • Strong object-oriented design and programming skills
  • Proficiency in understanding hardware systems constraints
  • Proficiency in building maintainable software with testing and extensibility in mind
  • Understanding of software architecture and testing fundamentals


Desired Experience:

  • Experience building embedded systems in C/C
  • Reading and understanding hardware datasheets and schematics
  • Hardware bring-up experience
  • Experience with the following:
    • Modbus, RS485, RS232, SDI-12
    • ARM Cortex-M processors
    • FreeRTOS or other modern RTOS
    • Using logic analyzers
    • Debugging embedded software using debug probes
    • Assembly language
    • CMake
    • Continuous integration
    • Refactoring and improving legacy code
    • BLE, cellular modems, and satellite modems


Ott is proud to be part of the environmental business within the Water Quality segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a $5.5B global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. When you join Veralto’s vibrant global network of 17,000 associates, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility: where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where you’ll have valuable opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career. Together, we’re Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources™—and building rewarding careers along the way.

We anticipate this requisition will be open for a minimum of five days, though it may be open for a longer period of time. We encourage your prompt application.

US ONLY:

The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. An associate’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs.

The compensation range for this role is $95,000 - $125,000 USD per year. This job is also eligible for Bonus Pay.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

US residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Veralto Corporation and all Veralto Companies are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. We value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.

The EEO posters are available here.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us at applyassistance@veralto.com to request accommodation.

Unsolicited Assistance

We do not accept unsolicited assistance from any headhunters or recruitment firms for any of our job openings. All resumes or profiles submitted by search firms to any employee at any of the Veralto companies, in any form without a valid, signed search agreement in place for the specific position, approved by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Veralto and its companies. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Veralto and its companies because of the unsolicited referral.

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