Experience Inc. Jobs

Job Description:

Role Summary:

The Sr. Firmware Engineer will be focused on evaluating and developing future technologies for TTI Floor Care. This position will reside in the Charlotte, N.C. Center of Excellence Electrical Engineering team.

Provide firmware development, software maintenance, and electrical engineering project support for a variety of floor care and other consumer products.  The engineer works directly with global design, engineering, and marketing groups in new product development teams. Manages and performs in house firmware development activities, and coordinates with outside suppliers and service providers. Analyzes product designs for quality improvement.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Work across multiple teams to jointly develop and refine engineering requirements based on marketing and user needs

• Responsible for firmware engineering, design, development, and implementation of system PCBAs for new products, and life cycle management activities of existing products, to meet specified performance criteria.

• Peer review and drive best practice within the Global team using unit test, static analysis and validation plans.

• Establishes test plans to ensure firmware meets product design specifications with the help of the product hardware engineer. 

• Ensure approval with UL, CSA, and other safety agencies with the help of the agency engineer.

• Assist the laboratory with preparation of test units and the analysis of test results.

• Works with the product teams to compile engineering product development schedules and making sure that key engineering deliverables, quality, performance, and cost targets are met.

• Drives innovation: Stay abreast of relevant technologies and assess innovations regarding their applicability to floor care and other consumer products.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• B.S. Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent.

• Experience with bare-metal and RTOS firmware designs, experience with ARM cortex MCU’s a plus

• Interest and familiarity with any of the following:

• Lithium-ion Batteries and Battery management systems

• BLDC motor control using FOC control

• Magnetic sensing application utilizing hall sensor, magnetoresistive sensors, magnetometers.

• Motion sensing applications utilizing gyroscopes, accelerometers, and barometers.

• Inductive measurement applications.

• Touch-based applications utilizing technologies such as resistive touch and capacitive touch.

• Current sensing applications, Broad working knowledge of firmware development for MCU’s.  Firmware development will include AC/ DC motor control, battery management, charging and monitoring, current level sensing and control, etc.

• Strong demonstrated experience for firmware development using the “C” language.  “C#” or “C++” is a plus.

• Experience with Software tools IAR, Visual Studio,Git Control and Issue tracking software. Parasoft, and LabVIEW experience a plus.

• Minimum 5 years of experience in consumer products, aerospace, industrial, or medical electrical engineering, including: new product firmware design of electronics systems, controls, and sensors.

• Ability to troubleshoot PCBAs to the component level, hands on mentality.

• Experienced in the use of oscilloscopes, MultiMeters, Power Supplies, Data Acquisition Systems, Power Analyzers, etc.

• Solid understanding of equipment, tools and software to design, test and analyze systems and components, electronic lab equipment, calibration, etc.

• Creative yet practical and hands-on in problem solving and decision making.

• Must possess ability to communicate effectively (written and verbally) with different levels/functions within and outside the organization, including the ability to discuss and explain complex technical details to non-technical team audiences.

• Pro-active approach with risk analysis, including the development of mitigation strategies before issues arise.

• A strong sense of urgency, strong project management skills, strong attention to detail, and strong analytical and interpretative skills.

• Proficient in common office applications (MS Office, MS Project, PowerPoint, Viso).

• Ability to travel up to 10% (Domestic and International).

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this position. This document is subject to change at any time and is not intended to be exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required by employees with this position title. The physical requirements described on the supplemental Occupational Worksheet are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made upon request.

#LI-TN1

Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Protected Veterans/Disabled

We endeavor to make this site accessible to any and all users. If you need to contact us regarding technical accessibility of our website call 443-391-1542. This number is only for technical accessibility issues, not general employment or job posting inquiries.