Job Summary
Ember is seeking an experienced Senior Firmware Engineer to join our team of engineers, to develop and drive innovative products in the consumer and healthcare marketspace. Lead team members to forge and maintain a close working relationship with external contractors, suppliers, and vendors. Oversee and participate in the firmware team contributions to the product concepting process with cross-disciplined engineering teams by way of focus on Industrial Design, User Experience and Sustainability. This role will be hybrid (Tue, Wed & Thu in office) based out of Westlake Village, CA.
Responsibilities
· Provides technical leadership and owns firmware in products within the Company’s portfolio, able to drive product development activities independently and with minimal supervision
· Responsible for the overall firmware architecture of product development
· Write and contribute high-quality code, including new features and bug fixes, to our repository
· Write test applications, programs, formal requirements, and relevant documentation
· Analyze systems and provide software support
· Estimate time required for coding tasks based on requirements and ensure timely follow-through on assignments
· Collaborate with the testing team to promptly identify and repair any bugs
· Maintain the strict and confidentiality of sensitive information
· Perform other job-related duties as required
Requirements and skills
· Firmware Engineer background with 4-year college degree
· 5-10 years Firmware Engineering design experience
· Strong embedded C programming skills, ARM Processors desired
· Experience with common software development tools like IDEs (VS Code), CMake, GNU, GIT, Jira, bash, etc.
· Experience working electronic hardware, microcontrollers, serial communications (USART/I2C/SPI), embedded design, low level debugging using JTAG and similar tools.
· Can read and understand schematics to the level needed to develop embedded software
· Experienced in hardware bring-up.
· Experienced with device productization and launch.
· Familiar with writing code around an Operating System such as FreeRTOS or Zephyr is a plus
· Experience coding applications using radio communications (LTE, BLE, Wifi) is a plus
· General understanding of power management / optimization is a plus
· Working knowledge of product development processes, gates and execution
· Expert comprehension of Microsoft tools (Teams, Excel, Visio, Project and Word)
· Ability to travel overseas approximately 10% of the time
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree (4-year) in related field
- 5-10 years firmware engineering design experience
- Strong embedded C programming skills
- ARM processors experience
- Experience with IDEs (VS Code), CMake, GNU toolchain, Git, Jira, Bash
- Experience with electronic hardware, microcontrollers, serial communications (USART/I2C/SPI), embedded design
- Low-level debugging experience using JTAG and similar tools
- Ability to read and understand schematics for embedded software development
- Hardware bring-up experience
- Experience with device productization and launch
- Familiarity with RTOS such as FreeRTOS or Zephyr
- Experience coding applications using radio communications (LTE, BLE, WiFi)
- General understanding of power management and optimization
- Working knowledge of product development processes, gates, and execution
- Expert proficiency with Microsoft tools (Teams, Excel, Visio, Project, Word)
- Ability to travel overseas approximately 10% of the time
What We Do
Ember LifeSciences is a healthcare technology company dedicated to redefining global medicine distribution. Leveraging proprietary temperature control technology, the company provides secure and sustainable cold chain solutions, such as the Ember Cube, to transport life-saving medicines and vaccines. Its mission is to save lives, improve patient outcomes, and reduce waste within the pharmaceutical supply chain through innovative, cloud-based shipping solutions.
