Firmware Engineer III

Position: Engineer III/ II – Technical Specialist - Firmware/ Technical Lead- Firmware.

Position Requirements

The right person for this position should have 7-10 years of experience in Embedded systems. He/She should be passionate, tech savvy, academically sound, have interest in embedded devices and technologies that drive the headless domain.

He / She should be able to understand Pentair product domain and develop products using industry best practices. He / She is required to be hands-on with embedded low-level driver and application development to monitor, control and manage the embedded devices.

Role & Responsibilities

Lead projects for a segment’s end-to-end firmware delivery.

Define design/architecture for the product firmware.

Firmware development & troubleshooting.

Code review and quality assurance using industry standard tools.

Ensure process compliance, best practices and leveraging AI in simplifying them.

Mentor project team members.

Manage launched products firmware lifecycle.

Manage product challenges due to external factors such as market or supply chain.

Collaborate with Business Unit, Cross functional and Delivery Teams to achieve Project goals for firmware.

Knowledge:
• Exposure to Microcontroller/Microprocessor Architecture Family e.g. ARM Cortex, Microchip, Xtensa ESP32, TI CC32XX, Raspberry PI, iMX series, RISC V
• Knowledge of any RTOS - FreeRTOS, uC OS, EmbOSs, VxWorks, QNX
• Knowledge of embedded linux, device driver concepts and inter process communication.
• Knowledge of Build toolchains and framework such as IAR, GCC, Keil, Mplab, Build root, Yocto
• Knowledge of Microcontroller peripherals and drivers e.g. ADC, DAC, I2C, SPI, UART, CAN, RS485, DMA, Ethernet, SD/eMMC, SDIO, UFS
• Understanding of different types of analog & digital sensors and their qualification/verification process
• Knowledge of RF protocols WIFI, Zigbee, Bluetooth/BLE, IoT Cellular.
• Knowledge of networking concepts like OSI layers, embedded TCP/IP stacks and common IP protocols.
• Knowledge of IoT communication protocols MQTT, COAP, AMQP
• DFMA and DFMEA, Design release process
• Coding standards, guidelines, and compliance tools
• Version control and repositories using git tools
• Software quality assurance and automated testing tools

Experience / Skills:
• Maintain, support & troubleshoot products already in production
• Embedded software design cycle
• Documenting Software Design (flow charts, state diagram, logic design, analysis, implementation, debugging and testing etc)
• Good hands-on programming in Embedded C, C++
• Programming in scripting languages such as batch, shell, python, Nodejs is a plus.
• Experience with AWS/Google cloud for device connectivity. Exposure to IoT cloud services. e.g. AWS IoT is a plus.
• Protocol debugging using protocol analyzer
• Understanding of Schematic/ Hardware design around microcontrollers like ST, TI, Atmel, Microchip, ARM core

Key Interfaces
• Global Project team members
• GEC Engineering Team
• External vendors and suppliers

Qualifications and Experience:

M.Tech/B.Tech in Computer Science / Electronics Engineering from a good Engineering College.

Other Requirements:
• Team player
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Ability to multitask
• Design Thinking
• Have passion for Design & Technology
• Should have a “can do” attitude
• Excellent interpersonal skills