Job Description
Title: Embedded Software Engineer
Location: Buffalo Grove, IL
Shift: 1st Shift
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $90,000–$110,000 per year
Shift: 1st Shift
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Salary: $90,000–$110,000 per year
Comprehensive Benefits Package
Sterling Engineering is hiring an Embedded Software Engineer for a global engineering and manufacturing organization developing next-generation embedded control systems used in advanced transportation applications. This is an outstanding opportunity to work on highly visible new product development projects while designing real-time embedded software that powers critical electromechanical systems. If you enjoy solving complex engineering challenges, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, and seeing your work move from concept to production, this is an excellent opportunity to grow your career.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain embedded software for controllers, sensors, and intelligent electromechanical products
- Develop software architecture and embedded control solutions from concept through production launch
- Optimize software performance, reliability, manufacturability, and overall system functionality
- Participate in new product development activities using APQP and Stage-Gate methodologies
- Perform software validation, verification, and system integration testing
- Lead or support root cause analysis, troubleshooting, and corrective actions for embedded software and electrical systems
- Evaluate customer specifications and develop scalable embedded software solutions
Qualifications
- Must have Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related engineering discipline
- Must have 6+ years of embedded software development experience
- Strong experience developing embedded systems using C/C++, Linux, and RTOS environments
- Experience with Python, C#, JavaScript, HTML, or React
- Experience with embedded architecture, system integration, and performance optimization
- Knowledge of embedded debugging tools and real-time software development
- Knowledge of embedded controllers, sensors, and electromechanical systems
- Experience with APQP, DFMEA, Root Cause Analysis (8D), and product development processes
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Buffalo Grove, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $90,000–$110,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)unmatched
- C Programming Languageunmatched
- C++ Programming Languageunmatched
- Computer Engineeringunmatched
- Control Systemsunmatched
- Corrective Actionunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Debugging Toolsunmatched
- Electrical Engineeringunmatched
- Electromechanical Systemsunmatched
- Electromechanicsunmatched
- Embedded Softwareunmatched
- Embedded Systemsunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Integration Testingunmatched
- Linux Operating Systemunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
- Product Developmentunmatched
- Project Designunmatched
- Realtime Operating Systemunmatched
- Root Cause Analysisunmatched
- Scalable System Developmentunmatched
- Software Administrationunmatched
- Software Architectureunmatched
- Software Developmentunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Software Validationunmatched
- System Integration (SI)unmatched
- System Testunmatched
- Technical Recruitingunmatched
- Validation Testingunmatched
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