Firmware Engineer III

Major Responsibilities

• Provide new product development support, specific to microprocessors/microcontrollers in the Industrial, Commercial, Residential and/or Retail generator or Power Tool product area.
• Designs, validates, and brings new products to market - specific responsibilities include designing and developing application software/firmware for embedded controllers in C, defining interface requirements, and creating firmware for communication interfaces and/or system algorithms
• Design of new control algorithms and performing Applications Engineering
• Develop new firmware or software modules, and maintain supporting documentation;
• Create, design and develop test specifications for new systems and firmware/software.
• Conducts and evaluates test specification including testing firmware/hardware
• Take part in Design for Manufacturability and Design for Test Activities
• Collaborates with internal product development departments, and other core engineering teams such including engines, transfer switch's, alternators, and others as needed to specify interfaces and/or algorithms needed in controls for interface.
• Utilizes simulation tools as appropriate
• Creates and/or modifies design documentation
• Help troubleshoot designs
• Participate in design reviews
• Mentors less experienced engineers
• Other duties as assigned; anticipate less than 10%

Minimum Job Requirements

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or directly related Engineering discipline
• 5 years of experience with embedded programming using languages such as C, C++,C#

Certification / License

Work Experience

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Ability to perform detail-oriented work with a high degree of accuracy;
• Ability to translate technical information to all audiences;
• Expert level understanding and knowledge engineering principles;
• Able to solve intermediate engineering problems; good decision-making skills;
• Expert level knowledge of communication protocols/hardware interface;
• Expert ability to write test firmware to test hardware designs
• Advanced ability to use FMEA/DFMEA tools