Guinn Partners helps visionary brands in the drone, robotics, aerospace, artificial intelligence, electric mobility, and other emerging technology spaces bring their world-changing ideas to life. We offer best-in-class services from conceptualization to launch and beyond: including product R&D, software, user experience, branding, marketing, and video content. Our dedicated team of multidisciplinary experts is based in Austin, Texas. We will soon be opening a new headquarters in the Center for Autonomous Robotics, located on the shore of Lake Austin, and looking out on the beautiful Pennybacker Bridge. If you like the idea of working on projects no one else has ever attempted before — while surrounded by 3D printers, prototypes, and circuit boards — you’ll really like working with us.

We are currently seeking an Embedded Firmware Engineer to become an integral part of our development team! You will design and test operating systems-level software and network distribution software.

Responsibilities:

• Develop high-performing and reliable firmware for embedded systems using microcontrollers, sensors and analog/digital interface circuits

• Assess and distill marketing requirements into producible and cost-effective products

• Collaborate with other firmware, software and hardware design team members to develop innovative products and applications

• Support new products through release to manufacturing

• Participate in the definition of system functional requirements

• Research, assess and adapt to new technologies necessary for future enhancements of products

• Protect intellectual property through patent disclosures and applications

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited University

• Experience programming with C and/or C

• 5 years of embedded firmware programming experience

• Practical, hands-on knowledge of C and/or C programming for embedded systems including use of a variety of IDEs for development and debug

• Understanding and ability to build or reverse-engineer PID controllers

• In-depth experience with embedded microcontroller-based design including interfacing to analog and digital devices

• Basic understanding of real-time systems, managing interrupts, threads, scheduling, semaphores, and state machines with and without RTOS

• Hands on knowledge of various standard communication protocols and topologies, including Ethernet, I2C, RS232, RS485, or SPI

• Must be able to commute to our office located in Austin, TX.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering, or closely-related discipline

• 5 years of embedded firmware programming experience

This is a temp -to-hire opportunity with a 90 day evaluation period.

Compensation: DOE