Senior Engineer, Systems Engineering - Embedded Systems & PLC Controls

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain embedded firmware for microcontroller- and processor-based systems using C/C++.
• Develop low-level drivers , communication stacks, middleware, and application software for embedded products.
• Implement and optimize real-time control functions, including task scheduling, interrupt handling, state machines, timing, fault handling, and diagnostics.
• Integrate embedded controllers with PLCs, sensors, actuators, motors, drives, instrumentation, and industrial networks.
• Implement, integrate, and troubleshoot CAN, RS-232/422/485, UART, SPI, I²C, USB, Ethernet, and TCP/IP communications.
• Partner with electrical engineers to bring up and validate new hardware platforms using JTAG/SWD debuggers, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and related equipment.
• Translate product needs into functional and non-functional software requirements, interface specifications, architecture, timing and memory constraints, and verification criteria.
• Create and maintain technical documentation , including requirements, architecture descriptions, interface documents, process flows, state-machine diagrams, test plans, test reports, release notes, and troubleshooting guides.
• Develop unit, integration, regression , hardware-in-the-loop, and system-level tests; create tools and scripts that improve automation, repeatability, diagnostic coverage, and data analysis.
• Participate in architecture, design, and code reviews ; apply coding standards, version control, issue tracking, configuration management, and secure development practices.
• Support stage-gate and New Product Introduction activities from concept and prototype through design verification, validation, qualification, release, and transfer to manufacturing.
• Support sustaining engineering by troubleshooting software, firmware, hardware-interface, manufacturing, and field issues; perform root-cause analysis and implement corrective actions.
• Collaborate with domestic and international engineering teams , product management, manufacturing, quality, customers, suppliers, and external development partners.
• Estimate effort , identify technical and schedule risks, communicate tradeoffs, and take ownership of assigned work through completion.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of professional experience developing embedded software or firmware.
• Strong programming skills in C and C++ for embedded systems.
• Hands-on experience with RTOS concepts, embedded hardware architecture, interrupts, concurrency, timing, memory, and real-time constraints.
• Experience developing low-level drivers and integrating peripheral interfaces such as SPI, I²C, UART, CAN, and RS-485.
• Experience developing or integrating at least one industrial communication protocol or control network.
• Experience with Git or similar version-control systems, code review, defect tracking, and controlled software release practices.
• Experience qualifying and validating software against written specifications through unit, integration, and system-level testing.
• Ability to read schematics and troubleshoot embedded hardware and firmware interfaces using standard laboratory and debug equipment.
• Ability to create clear requirements, design documents, interface specifications, test plans, test reports, and troubleshooting documentation.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to prioritize work, manage multiple assignments, and deliver in a fast-paced product-development and sustaining environment.

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