Sr. Firmware Engineer

Sr. Firmware Engineer (Open)

Location:

Cheshire, CT (ATS) - Management

At Airgas, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

Airgas is hiring for a Sr. Firmware Engineer in Cheshire, CT.

We are looking for you!

• Travel:
  Occasionally (1-10% of work time)

• In-office role- M-F

• Pay: 130-145K

Senior Firmware Engineer with 5+ years of experience developing embedded systems. The candidate will be accountable for designing, building, and testing embedded firmware/software for wireless electronic products for the gas industry. The candidate will work within a multidisciplinary team and be responsible for new products from their design stage through commercialization. We require an individual that is comfortable and competent in the role of a firmware technical leader with experience in firmware development including but not limited to C and RTOS.

• Design, build, test, and document microprocessor based firmware for wireless electronic products from concept, feasibility, prototyping through production.

• Create embedded firmware and software in widely used software development environments (e.g. IAR Systems, AVR Studio, Eclipse, MPLab IDE, Zephyr).

• Create software design requirements, test plan and test results documentation for various platforms.

• Work closely with hardware engineers in specifying components for efficient firmware design.

• Working with hardware team and others, create and design PC based software to create production, manufacturing and product validation test fixtures

• Conduct system functional tests and troubleshoot products and equipment as required.

• Provide and continuously communicate time and cost estimates for projects.

• Provide ongoing technical assistance to manufacturing.

• BS+ in Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science.
• 5+ years of experience designing, building, and testing firmware and hardware for embedded systems.
• Experience generating firmware for 8-bit, 32-bit single or dual core microprocessor systems including use of peripheral devices such as A-D converters, voltage/current switches/regulators/controllers/monitors, batteries, solar panels, and charging system controllers in assembly, C or other higher languages. Familiarity with communication protocols such as SPI, I2C, Ethernet, TCP/IP, wireless networks desired.
• Experience in Low power applications for fielded devices.
• Experience with revision control applications and documentation, e.g. Git, Git Hub, Tortoise Git, Doxygen
• Experience with PC based software for controlling electronic products including but not limited to VB, Visual Studio. NET, C #, Lab View.
• Experience with Yocto Linux and real time operating systems (RTOS) for embedded systems
• Experience in BSP development and RPM creation for Linux based microprocessors.
• Experience using oscilloscopes, network analyzers, spectrum analyzers and basic lab tools and instruments.
• Desired direct design experience with RF wireless communication technologies such as Wifi, 4G, 5G, Mesh network, Bluetooth, Sigfox and LoRa.
• Experience working with FPGA firmware including but not limited to Verilog, VHDL etc. desired.
• Advanced mathematical skills relevant to the application of firmware/software engineering

• Experience in BSP development for IMX
  93 core processor.
• Experience in Zephyr RTOS development for Ublox NORA-B120.

• Comfortable using firmware development tools (IDE).
• Comfortable programming microprocessors using industry standard practices and tools.
• Comfortable documenting software and associated activities.
• Comfortable using typical tools to develop, test and troubleshoot firmware.
• Experience with mathematical and simulation tools a plus
• Basic knowledge of Google applications and Gmail
• Able to save and maintain electronic files

• Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations
• Ability to write routine business…