Firmware Engineer
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Responsibilities
- Role Responsibilities - How You Will Make an Impact
- Break down system and product requirements into a firmware design and implement it for the ARC product lines
- Work with the product team to define and characterize performance metrics for sensor components
- Iteratively improve user-experience concerns around accuracy, stability, and calibration of MEMS sensors
- Support firmware development and optimization efforts for processing efficiency, code size, and power requirements
- Provide input, feedback, and data-backed results to management and leadership on various firmware features, functions, and power utilization
- Work with the ARC team to plan firmware work in Agile development cycles
- Identify, develop, and execute automated and manual testing procedures with ARC QA functions including hands on support for debugging and resolving identified issues
- Relevant Skills and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field
- Experience with hardware or firmware development (C programming)
- Experience with electronic magnetometers, accelerometers, gyroscopes, temperature/pressure sensors, and similar digital sensing technologies
- Experience with SPI, I2C, and UART protocols
- Experience developing microprocessor/micro-controller-based solutions
- Experience with Agile methodologies and development cycles
- Proficiency in using various development environments as well as meters, oscilloscopes, JTAG debugging, logic analyzers, packet sniffers, emulators, etc.
- Familiarity with battery operated products or products with constrained power
- Bonus Points:
- Master's degree or higher in electrical, computer engineering or a related field
- Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Experience with digital signal processing (DSP) techniques
- Experience developing Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), WiFi, or RF enabled IoT devices
- Experience developing firmware applications for the Zephyr RTOS
- Experience reading/developing schematic drawings using KiCAD/Altium or equivalent tools/software
- Experience developing ultra-low power optimized firmware for custom designed PCB boards
- Existing or ability to obtain a DoD security clearance
Benefits
Additional Information
About Armaments Research Company Armaments Research Company (ARC) is a technology company dedicated to bringing real-time situational awareness and battlefield logistics capabilities to the warfighter. You will be an integral part of the ARC team managing program execution in support of our innovative and powerful IoT devices to enhance national security. Our core offering is the ARC AI-Enabled Weapons Sensor (AEWS), which collects and transmits real-time tactical data to the cloud. This information enables battlefield/tactical awareness and aggregated insights into big data sets that do not exist today. ARC technologies were initially developed in partnership with DARPA and the National Science Foundation and leverage internet-of-things (IoT) technology and machine learning to derive actionable insights and transform operational responses. This novel technology will be deployed at scale to enhance safety, decision-making, and sustainment for the warfighter at the tactical edge.
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