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As an Firmware Engineer, you will be a key member of the hardware team leading an embedded project from start to finish. Both an exceptional technical engineer as well as a leader, you are able to architect, execute, and test complex embedded systems on a range of platforms from bare metal, RTOS, Linux, and mobile OS.
This role will help build the next-generation HW platforms for Motive. This person understands how to ship high-volume quality hardware and has done it many times; experience with mobile platforms and surrounding technologies a must. You have shipped hundreds of thousands if not millions of devices through the devices you have developed.
Responsibilities:- Design and development of high-performance firmware and software for cutting-edge mobile platforms and cameras
- Debug, optimize, and validate firmware on complex embedded multi-core architectures.
- Participate in ground-breaking hardware and research projects
- 5+ years of experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- Strong programming experience and demonstrated proficiency in C/C++ for embedded systems, including development of algorithms, manipulation of complex data structures, and implementing highly optimized code
- Consumer electronics experience or familiarity with 3-4 or relevant technologies: mutli-core ARM processors, GPUs, WiFi/BT, cameras.
- Familiarity with ARM or equivalent embedded multi-core microprocessor architectures is required
- Strong understanding of operating systems concepts such as thread scheduling, context switching and memory management is required.
- Candidate is expected to have experience in using ARM debuggers.
- Ability to understand hardware design and schematics.
- Prior experience with overseeing board bring-up and validation
- Linux OS with ARM or any microcontroller
- Automotive protocols such as J1939, J1587 J1850 etc.
- Peripheral protocols such as UART , CAN, SPI etc.
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