Principal Embedded Software Engineer

Collaboration drives Nordson’s success as a market leader in Industrial Precision Solutions and Advanced Technology. Our employees thrive in an environment where we help each other reach our personal best and enable our company to continuously improve and grow, and our customers to succeed. You will find Nordson employees sharing our success by giving back in the communities around the world where we live and work.

From the mobile device in your pocket to the sensors in your car, and even life-saving medical devices, Nordson’s technology is used to make products that touch your life every day. Do you want to join a growing team in a market-leading technology company? We’re looking for motivated individuals who care about helping our customers succeed. If you value integrity, respect for people, customer passion, energy, and excellence, you’ll fit right in to the Nordson culture.

Overview:

We are looking for a talented Principal Embedded Software Engineer to join the Nordson EFD team. In this role you will be responsible for designing, developing, troubleshooting, and debugging firmware and software programs for electro-mechanical systems that enables precision manufacturing processes and medical fluid handling. You will work on complex hardware-software interaction problems that require strong analytical and data driven approaches to make our products smarter, connected and intelligent.

How YOU will make an impact:

• Lead architecture development of embedded software for microprocessors, microcontrollers and FPGAs to control electro-mechanical actuators, acquire sensor data, implement control algorithms and enable digital communications. 
• Collaborate with and guide a global team to develop software and firmware source code in c/c++, embedded c, Verilog/VHDL and other languages.
• Implement world class coding conventions and software development standards within the company.
• Determine hardware compatibility and/or influences of hardware design.
• Participate in new technology evaluations, voice of customer exercises, competitive benchmarking and production launch support.
• Write requirements, develop, maintain, and troubleshoot software APIs/SDKs for industrial controllers as well as work with external vendors to support integration of communication APIs.
• Coach junior engineers to define system requirements, implement good coding practices and develop features for seamless integration of Nordson EFD products into customer systems.

Qualifications To Be Successful:

• 9 years’ experience working on electro-mechanical products with embedded systems, real time control and digital communication interfaces, 3 of that with full ownership of product embedded software.

• Proficient in C/C++ programming of microcontrollers/microprocessors and FPGA’s. HDL and real time operating systems experience desired.
• Knowledge of communications protocols such as UART (RS232, RS485), SPI, TCP/IP, MODBUS, Profinet, Ethernet IP etc.
• Knowledge of socket-based communication with other processes / systems strongly preferred.
• Agile / Scrum / XP development best practices. Experience with version control tools.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with a global team.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science

Preferred:

• Background in robotics, machine automation and machine learning algorithms.
• Familiarity with Linux operating systems and SBCs, storing and retrieving data from SQL database, communication over Web Services, and parsing markup languages like XML and HTML

What We Offer:

• Flexible work hours.
• Starting day 1, your benefits include Medical, Rx, Vision, Dental, Health Savings Account (HSA), 401k (with match AND additional 3% annual company contribution), tuition reimbursement and Life Insurance.
• Annual cash bonus based on personal & company performance.
• In addition to paid time off and paid holidays, each employee receives 16 hours of paid time each calendar year to perform volunteer services in our communities.
• Full-service on-site cafeteria

Working Conditions and Physical Demands: Office environment. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Travel Required: Estimated 10%

Nordson Corporation provides equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees. No person is to be discriminated against in any aspect of the employment relationship due to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, citizenship status, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

All employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of our pre-employment drug screening and background/criminal check, consistent with applicable laws.

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Nordson Corporation provides equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees. No person is to be discriminated against in any aspect of the employment relationship due to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, citizenship status, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. All employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of our pre-employment drug screening and background/criminal check, consistent with applicable laws.

Third party recruiters and agencies should not contact employees of Nordson or its subsidiaries directly. Any resumes sent to a hiring manager or submitted to Nordson employees are considered unsolicited and property of Nordson. Nordson will not pay a placement fee unless the agency or recruiter has a signed contract with Nordson’s Human Resources department in advance of submitting a candidate for consideration. Verbal and written approvals will not be considered a valid contract for service.