Note: This is a limited tenure position with an anticipated employment period of two years.
The Mayo Clinic Special Purpose Processor Development Group (SPPDG) is seeking a Hardware/Firmware Engineer for design and engineering contribution to complex hardware and embedded system engineering applications. SPPDG is a research group within Mayo Clinic and is comprised of electronics hardware, software, and firmware engineers supporting a variety of design, analysis, and testing efforts. Note that this is a Limited Tenure position, which is anticipated to support employment for two years.
As part of this R&D team, the candidate would perform increasingly complex electronics engineering functions including hardware design, test, and verification and embedded software development and test for ultra-low power portable device development.
Limited travel may be required.
QualificationsRequires a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering from an accredited college or university, and minimum of 4 years of engineering experience.
The successful candidate is expected to have experience in hardware and firmware development, test, and verification. This experience should include familiarity with the following: basic lab equipment (power supplies, multimeters, oscilloscopes, etc.), logic analyzers, embedded IDEs, C programming language, embedded architectures, serial communication protocols, and general firmware and debug skills. Additional base qualifications include the ability to generate tests based on a description or functional requirement, an expectation to document test plans, test executions, and present results, and ability to communicate technical details to team members.
Note: This position requires obtaining and maintaining a Secret clearance and adhering to security requirements described in the NISPOM. Therefore, must be a U.S. Citizen. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with ARM Cortex M4 core, use and debug of serial communication protocols specifically UART, I2C, SPI.
- Experience with Python language - especially for testing.
- Familiarity with version management software such as Git.
- Experience working in multithreaded RTOS environments.
- Experience and/or interest in applying engineering knowledge to physiologic signals such as photoplethysmography, electrocardiograms, and activity monitoring.
- Ability to document instructions to aid in programming, debug, test, and verification.
- Familiarity with embedded coding standards and the ability to apply these standards.
- Experience participating in code and design reviews.
- Ability to analyze data quickly and determine best path forward for debug.
- Ability to debug embedded systems in real time.
- Experience using debuggers to set breakpoints, watch variables, analyze stack usage, and monitor RTOS mechanisms.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering from an accredited college or university
- Minimum of four years of engineering experience
- Experience developing, testing, and verifying hardware and firmware
- Familiarity with power supplies, multimeters, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and other basic laboratory equipment
- Experience with embedded IDEs, C programming, embedded architectures, serial communication protocols, and firmware debugging
- Ability to generate tests from descriptions or functional requirements
- Ability to document test plans, test executions, and results
- Ability to communicate technical details to team members
- U.S. citizenship
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance
- Familiarity with ARM Cortex-M4 and UART, I2C, and SPI protocols
- Experience using Python for testing
- Experience with Git or similar version management software
- Experience working in multithreaded RTOS environments
- Experience or interest in physiologic signals, including photoplethysmography, electrocardiograms, and activity monitoring
- Familiarity with embedded coding standards
- Experience participating in code and design reviews
- Ability to analyze data and debug embedded systems in real time
- Experience using debuggers for breakpoints, variable watches, stack analysis, and RTOS monitoring
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