Akkodis is seeking a Hybrid Sr. Firmware Engineer for a six-to-twelve-month contract position with a client located in Fairport, NY. You will be working on sophisticated, industrial, real time operating systems involving real time data acquisition and post processing of data for analysis and reports. This team of engineers develops innovative monitoring systems used for asset monitoring at electrical sub stations. Current project involved rebuilding a microcontroller and switching to a new OS. This position requires being onsite at least three days a week.
Pay/Salary Range: $60.00 to $80.00 per hour depending on experience
Hybrid Sr. Firmware Engineer job responsibilities include:
• Embedded systems, firmware development with specific focus on Linux and real time embedded systems.
• Developing advance firmware solutions for critical substation monitoring and diagnosis requirements.
• Coordinate firmware development activities and lead quality and scheduling projects.
• Supports development team and provides needed pre-qualification and verification testing. Ensure compliance to all regulatory needs for the product and business
• Support product transition to mass manufacturing
• Supports sales and support team post release to timely meet customer needs.
• Follow software development and validation processes and continuously improve them.
• Use Scrum Agile Methodology for software development.
QUALIFICATIONS:
• Bachelors or Masters in Electrical / Electronics Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent
• Three to five years of experience required
• Proven expertise in the design and support of embedded systems architecture in a real time, Linux environment (High Speed Serial IO, Embedded Processor).
• Experience with DSP programming. Hands on experience in programming different peripheral interfaces like UART, I2C, SPI etc.
• Expertise in Embedded C/C++. Code development in a hard real time, multi-threaded environment. Experience in Linux user space C++ code
• Strong analytic and problem-solving skills for root cause determination and fixing issues.
• Integrating existing business logic to existing kernel drivers through OS facilities (sysfs, ioctl, SPI)
• Initial HW/FW validation with DMM / Logic Analyzers
• Work involves implementing existing interfaces into concrete classes
Preferred Skills:
• Knowledge of unit test frameworks for Linux and/ or Cyber security implementation
• Programming experience with device drivers.
• Experience in fault location, fault recording and/or power quality.
• Familiarity with SPI, I2C, Linux DTS
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