Associate Firmware Engineer
Rockwell Automation is a global leader in industrial automation and information solutions, where innovation is critical. With our Integrated Architecture™ control and information system, Intelligent Motor Control portfolio and components offering, we bring together products and technologies that shape our future — and help organizations achieve Smart, Safe, and Sustainable Manufacturing.
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Rockwell Automation’s Industrial Component Business is seeking an experienced Firmware Engineer to be a significant contributor to a next generation new product development responsible for the design, analysis, test and integration of Firmware for embedded communication and control modules. The position requires the proven ability to work with a team of system, hardware, and firmware design personnel to support project specifications and execute through the entire development cycle.
Responsibilities typically include:
- Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug firmware programs for embedded products. Determine hardware compatibility and/or influence of hardware design.
- Utilize experience to resolve wide range of issues in creative and effective ways.
- Participate in creation of or reviews of; documents, designs, code, test cases and user documentation.
- Perform unit or functional testing of developed software to ensure correct operation per functional requirements and compatibility with other components in the system.
- Contribute to firmware development capability by keeping abreast of current trends in the areas of software development practices, technology utilization and development tools.
- Frequently interact with peers to gain cooperation of others or sharing of technical information/project activities.
- Strong accountability to assignments, keeping in mind the guiding principles; Customer Focus, Sense of Urgency, Performance to schedule and Quality.
Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum of a completed Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or similar Engineering discipline with a concentration in firmware.
- Legal authorization to work in the US is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
- Up to 10% travel
Preferred Qualifications:
- Proven experience with embedded firmware development and proven track record of following a development process.
- Programming and development experience involving C and C++ programming languages.
- Clearly communicates and conveys design concepts, both verbally and written.
- DevOps experience with standard version control systems (Git/RTC), build automation systems (Makefiles), and release management tools (Jenkins, CLM), standard scripting languages (Python, Powershell, Bash, etc) and managing them is a plus.
- Experience with the use of tools such as In-Circuit Emulators, Logic Analyzers, embedded monitors, and other such development tools.
- Board Support Package (BSP) development level experience with microcontrollers and interfaces such as SPI, I2C, and simple peripherals such as A/D, D/A, & general purpose IO.
- Experience with Agile software development methodology.
- Advanced courses in engineering or computer science would be beneficial. Course work covering software requirements analysis, software design, software engineering and software testing is desired.