Principal Firmware Engineer
Seeking a Principal Firmware Engineer for a Gaming Equipment, Accessories, and Gear Start-up Team in San Francisco, CA.
Summary You'll assist to create high end gaming equipment.
full design cycle for high volume products.
Strong technical design and analysis capabilities are also required.
Responsibilities:
Develop firmware for a variety of embedded products.
Create and execute development and bring up schedules.
Create project and technical reports as required.
Help define product architecture as needed.
Participate in schematic/layout review process.
Test and evaluate prototypes from initial engineering samples to mass production.
Help maintain firmware servers (used for revision control, build system) Develop tools for internal use, including scripts and basic hardware interfaces.
Must Have Skillsets:
At least 5 years proven track record of bringing consumer electrical products into production.
Prototyping experience using EVKs, protoboards, etc Strong lab skills, including circuit analysis/debug, PCBA bring up, solder/rework.
Strong C or C+
programming skills required Scripting skills desirable, including Python, Perl.
Understanding of good test practices, design for test, and test script development.
Knowledge of audio engineering concepts including characterization, signal processing, real-time requirements, etc Experience working with and maintaining OSS development tools.
Experience completing at least 3-5 projects and made it to mass production (had a lead role in these products) Working cross functionally especially with EE's and SE's.
Understand product validation test process's Agile driven, writing code, tracking bugs, clearing bugs, fixing bugs, dealing with customers, understanding what the bugs are that need to be fixed Excellent fixing bugs skills as reported, is key.
Developed products and understanding of product life cycle.
Ability to demonstrate at least one full FW product development cycle of a high volume, consumer electronic device.
Work with electrical engineering, marketing, and suppliers to develop FW for Cortex-M processors as part of a small team.
Assist other engineering fields in evaluating and specifying microcontrollers and other embedded devices into future products.
Desired Skillsets Consumer electronic devices experience (power management, audio or RF characteristics) Experienced with ARM or board bring up is a plus.
Reasonable understanding of ASM programming concepts expected.
Knowledge of SVN, git, good understanding of revision control best practices.
Experience with GCC/make based tool-chains for embedded development.
Good understanding of ARM Cortex-M.
Knowledge of other MCUs and embedded platforms a plus.
Good understanding of RTOS based firmware design.
Understanding of the gaming, interactive, on-line, console, pc markets a plus, but not required.
Strong Unix user skills, admin knowledge a plus but not required.
Location:
San Francisco, CA (Bryant Street) Type:
Fulltime (some remote work available).
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
Summary You'll assist to create high end gaming equipment.
full design cycle for high volume products.
Strong technical design and analysis capabilities are also required.
Responsibilities:
Develop firmware for a variety of embedded products.
Create and execute development and bring up schedules.
Create project and technical reports as required.
Help define product architecture as needed.
Participate in schematic/layout review process.
Test and evaluate prototypes from initial engineering samples to mass production.
Help maintain firmware servers (used for revision control, build system) Develop tools for internal use, including scripts and basic hardware interfaces.
Must Have Skillsets:
At least 5 years proven track record of bringing consumer electrical products into production.
Prototyping experience using EVKs, protoboards, etc Strong lab skills, including circuit analysis/debug, PCBA bring up, solder/rework.
Strong C or C+
programming skills required Scripting skills desirable, including Python, Perl.
Understanding of good test practices, design for test, and test script development.
Knowledge of audio engineering concepts including characterization, signal processing, real-time requirements, etc Experience working with and maintaining OSS development tools.
Experience completing at least 3-5 projects and made it to mass production (had a lead role in these products) Working cross functionally especially with EE's and SE's.
Understand product validation test process's Agile driven, writing code, tracking bugs, clearing bugs, fixing bugs, dealing with customers, understanding what the bugs are that need to be fixed Excellent fixing bugs skills as reported, is key.
Developed products and understanding of product life cycle.
Ability to demonstrate at least one full FW product development cycle of a high volume, consumer electronic device.
Work with electrical engineering, marketing, and suppliers to develop FW for Cortex-M processors as part of a small team.
Assist other engineering fields in evaluating and specifying microcontrollers and other embedded devices into future products.
Desired Skillsets Consumer electronic devices experience (power management, audio or RF characteristics) Experienced with ARM or board bring up is a plus.
Reasonable understanding of ASM programming concepts expected.
Knowledge of SVN, git, good understanding of revision control best practices.
Experience with GCC/make based tool-chains for embedded development.
Good understanding of ARM Cortex-M.
Knowledge of other MCUs and embedded platforms a plus.
Good understanding of RTOS based firmware design.
Understanding of the gaming, interactive, on-line, console, pc markets a plus, but not required.
Strong Unix user skills, admin knowledge a plus but not required.
Location:
San Francisco, CA (Bryant Street) Type:
Fulltime (some remote work available).
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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