Title: Firmware Engineer
Job Location: Dayton, OH
Our Department: CTCT
High-Impact Firmware Engineer for Next-Gen Sensors for Machine Control!Ready to see your code move mountains? Join our CTCT team in Dayton where you’ll develop the high-performance firmware powering the world’s most advanced autonomous sensors and machine control systems. This is your chance to bridge the gap between complex algorithms and real-world physical impact, creating smarter, safer, and more efficient technology that transforms global infrastructure.
About Us: Trimble is a global technology company that connects the physical and digital worlds, transforming the ways work gets done. With relentless innovation in precise positioning, modeling and data analytics, Trimble enables essential industries including construction, geospatial and transportation. Whether it's helping customers build and maintain infrastructure, design and construct buildings, optimize global supply chains or map the world, Trimble is at the forefront, driving productivity and progress.
The Trimble Field Systems segment provides digital construction solutions that increase precision and productivity for contractors and developers in the field.
What Makes This Role Great: You will be at the heart of hardware-software integration, taking full ownership of firmware architecture for real-time sensors. Unlike roles that focus on a single component, you will work across the entire development lifecycle—from defining signal processing requirements to hands-on debugging with oscilloscopes—directly influencing how heavy machinery "sees" and interacts with its environment.
Key Exciting Responsibilities
Design and Architect: Lead the development and implementation of high-performance firmware for real-time hardware sensors and control devices.
Master the Hardware: Manage advanced testing and debugging using circuit emulators, logic analyzers, and oscilloscopes to ensure mission-critical reliability.
Define Signal Logic: Drive firmware architecture decisions specifically regarding signal processing and controller requirements.
Iterate and Improve: Maintain and support firmware throughout the production lifecycle, ensuring quality deliverables while adhering to aggressive schedules.
Essential Skills & Experience
Technical Foundation: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Control Engineering, or a related technical field.
Embedded Expertise: Hands-on experience developing with C++ on 32-bit embedded microprocessors.
Real-Time Systems: Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Design principles and experience with Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS).
Production Tooling: Proven experience with compilers, debuggers, and version control tools like GitHub and Jira in a production environment.
Bonus Points For
Experience with Functional Safety development standards.
Background in designing PID controllers, anti-aliasing, and decimation filters.
Proficiency with Matlab and Simulink development for control systems.
Logistics
Location: Dayton, OH - In Office
Travel: 10% or less domestic
Why You'll Love Working With Us At Trimble, we're not just a company that "does good"—we are a team dedicated to making a tangible, positive Real-World Impact.
You'll work on projects that truly matter: Our purpose-driven culture means you'll be helping to build and deliver solutions that make work faster, safer, and more sustainable for millions of people worldwide. Our impact is tangible, from connected machines that save fuel to data-driven insights that reduce waste.
Collaborate with like-minded people: Our strong internal culture is a "hidden gem." You will work with a collaborative, supportive team that shares your purpose and fosters a genuine sense of belonging. We're a company of "visionary pragmatists" who think boldly and build things that work.
Be an owner: Trimble thrives on individuals who take initiative and embrace ownership. You'll find an entrepreneurial spirit where success is often "self-authored," empowering proactive "doers."
About Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies (CTCT)
The CTCT division (a joint venture between Trimble and Caterpillar) develops positioning, control, and automation products for earthmoving and paving machines in the construction and mining industries, using technologies such as GNSS, optical total stations, lasers, and sonics. The products are used in a range of applications where the operator of the machine benefits from having accurate horizontal and vertical guidance. For more information on currently developed products, see http://construction.trimble.com/earthworks.
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Compensation: Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.
Hiring Range
$99,600.00–$137,000.00Pay Rate Type
SalaryBonus Eligible?
YesCommission Eligible?
No
Benefits: Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. If this position is identified above as commission- or bonus-eligible, the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date.
How to Apply: Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on the ‘Apply Now’ button located in this posting.
Application Deadline: Applications could be accepted until at least 30 days from the posting date.
At Trimble, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Guided by our core values—Belong, Innovate, and Grow—we embrace and celebrate differences, knowing they make us stronger and more innovative. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, welcoming individuals of all backgrounds and advancing opportunities while embracing race, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other protected and diverse characteristic. We are committed to offering our candidates and employees with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs the ability to seek reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law and/or where it would not constitute undue hardship for Trimble. For more, please see Trimble's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics at https://investor.trimble.com, under “Corporate Governance.”
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Trimble is transforming the way the world works by delivering products and services that connect the physical and digital worlds. Core technologies in positioning, modeling, connectivity and data analytics enable customers to improve productivity, quality, safety and sustainability. From purpose built products to enterprise lifecycle solutions, Trimble software, hardware and services are transforming industries such as agriculture, construction, geospatial and transportation. For more information about Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB), visit: www.trimble.com.
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