Job Description
Title: Embedded Firmware Engineer
Location: Seattle, WA
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Compensation: 150-220k
Must have Skill Set:
- Must have Professional C programming experience (Required)
- Must have Embedded firmware development experience
- Must have Java experience (used for decoding compressed data and supporting software tools)
- Experience debugging at the hardware/software interface
- Ability to read hardware schematics and component datasheets
- Must have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline
Highly Preferred
- Bare-metal embedded development experience
- ARM microcontroller experience
- GNU toolchains
- Serial communication protocols (UART, SPI, I²C)
- Embedded software testing and verification
Overview:
Join a small, highly collaborative engineering team developing fully autonomous robotic vehicles that operate in the world's oceans to support environmental and climate research. This is a unique opportunity to develop firmware for sophisticated autonomous systems where software reliability, efficiency, and precision are critical.
This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy working close to the hardware and solving challenging low-level programming problems rather than developing desktop or web applications.
Job Duties:
- Design, develop, and maintain embedded firmware in C
- Develop software for ARM-based embedded controllers
- Implement efficient data compression algorithms used by autonomous ocean robotics
- Support Java-based software used to decode and process collected data
- Integrate firmware with sensors, electronics, and embedded hardware
- Debug complex hardware/software interactions
- Develop unit tests and verification procedures
- Collaborate closely with electrical, mechanical, and systems engineers throughout the product lifecycle
Relocation Assistance Available
Please Note: Relocation assistance is available for qualified candidates relocating within the U.S. This position is not eligible for candidates requiring current or future visa sponsorship or visa transfers.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Itasca, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $150,000–$220,000 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
- ARM (Advanced RISC Machine)unmatched
- C Programming Languageunmatched
- Compression Algorithmsunmatched
- Computer Engineeringunmatched
- Computer Firmwareunmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Data Collectionunmatched
- Data Compressionunmatched
- Data Processingunmatched
- Datasheetsunmatched
- Desktop PCunmatched
- Electrical Engineeringunmatched
- Electricityunmatched
- Electronicsunmatched
- Embedded Hardwareunmatched
- Embedded Softwareunmatched
- Embedded Systemsunmatched
- Environmental Researchunmatched
- Hardware Componentsunmatched
- Hardware Debuggingunmatched
- Javaunmatched
- Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
- Microcontrollerunmatched
- Product Lifecycleunmatched
- Roboticsunmatched
- Schematicsunmatched
- Serial Communications Protocolsunmatched
- Software Administrationunmatched
- Software Debuggingunmatched
- Software Developmentunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Software Testingunmatched
- Systems Engineeringunmatched
- Systems Reliabilityunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Test Plan/Scheduleunmatched
- Unit Testunmatched
- Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter (UART)unmatched
- Web Programmingunmatched
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