Job Description
Position- Firmware Engineer-Embedded Systems and C++
Location Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA-Day 1 onsite
Job Description
Role focus: Deliver high-quality firmware while independently learning unfamiliar systems, resolving technical ambiguity, and progressing work with minimal day-to-day guidance.
Position Summary
We are seeking a self-directed firmware engineer to contribute to embedded software development for MR platforms. The engineer will work across firmware, systems, hardware, and architecture teams to translate requirements into reliable software. Success in this role requires strong C++ fundamentals, practical embedded development experience, disciplined engineering practices, and the ability to quickly learn a complex technical environment and make progress with limited supervision.
Key Responsibilities
Location Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA-Day 1 onsite
Job Description
Role focus: Deliver high-quality firmware while independently learning unfamiliar systems, resolving technical ambiguity, and progressing work with minimal day-to-day guidance.
Position Summary
We are seeking a self-directed firmware engineer to contribute to embedded software development for MR platforms. The engineer will work across firmware, systems, hardware, and architecture teams to translate requirements into reliable software. Success in this role requires strong C++ fundamentals, practical embedded development experience, disciplined engineering practices, and the ability to quickly learn a complex technical environment and make progress with limited supervision.
Key Responsibilities
- Own assigned firmware features or components from requirements analysis through design, implementation, integration, verification, and defect resolution.
- Independently learn existing code, hardware interfaces, development tools, and system behavior; identify the right technical resources and ask focused questions when needed.
- Develop maintainable embedded software in modern C++ using sound object-oriented design, clear interfaces, and appropriate error handling.
- Collaborate with systems, hardware, FPGA, software, and architecture teams to clarify requirements, evaluate tradeoffs, and resolve cross-functional issues.
- Use debuggers, emulators, analyzers, logs, and other diagnostic methods to isolate complex software and hardware interaction problems.
- Create unit and integration tests, contribute to automated testing, and support continuous integration to improve software quality and regression coverage.
- Participate in design and code reviews; provide constructive feedback and incorporate review input promptly.
- Estimate, plan, and track work through user stories; communicate status, risks, dependencies, and technical blockers early and clearly.
- Follow applicable quality processes and produce clear technical documentation that supports design traceability, testing, and long-term maintenance.
- Work effectively with globally distributed teams and contribute to consistent design and architectural improvements across MR platforms.
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent practical experience, in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 5+ years of professional experience developing embedded or firmware software.
- Strong C++ programming skills, including object-oriented design, memory management, concurrency fundamentals, debugging, and writing maintainable production code.
- Hands-on experience developing software that interacts with hardware, real-time systems, device interfaces, or resource-constrained embedded platforms.
- Proven ability to learn unfamiliar technologies and codebases independently, break down ambiguous problems, and deliver results with minimal guidance.
- Experience with embedded development and diagnostic tools such as debuggers, emulators, protocol or logic analyzers, and system logs.
- Experience with Linux-based development environments, source control such as Git, and build or container-based workflows.
- Experience with continuous integration, automated testing, and disciplined software review practices.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions, raise risks, and collaborate across functions.
- Experience with a real-time operating system and multi-threaded or concurrent software.
- Experience with hardware bring-up, board-level debugging, device drivers, communication protocols, or FPGA and firmware integration.
- Experience working in a regulated, safety-critical, or quality-controlled product-development environment.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Waukesha, WI |
| Industry | Computer Software |
| Company Size | 20 to 49 employees |
| Year Founded | 2014 |
| Website | http://www.tekfortune.com/ |
About Company
Tekfortune is a software solutions company providing project development and staff augmentation services to companies in various industries including Healthcare, Banking, Finance, Telecommunication and Aviation.
Tekfortune Inc delivers solutions to a wide variety of organizations of various sizes and industries. Our clients include mid-market to Fortune 1000 companies spanning across industries such as: Insurance, Financial, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Retail and many others.
In Tekfortune Inc, we are offering selection of services and solutions at very reasonable rates. With years of experience in the placement and recruitment Industry and over time we have acquired the knowledge essential to comprehend the exact need and dependence on customers. Therefore we provide the customers the best and also the brightest candidates for vacancies. Moreover, by understanding the working interest of customers who is able to place them within the companies where they are able to get maximum opportunity for professional growth.
Tekfortune Inc has a strong emphasis on quality. Its goal would be to achieve client satisfaction by looking into making deliveries satisfaction of customer's business needs. Our ability to quickly identify and effectively employ proven fundamental principles, techniques and resources yields highly desirable results for our clients.
We understand that each industry and organization share a level of uniqueness that requires a tailored approach in order to deliver specific solutions. Such factors as client culture, industry regulations, organizational maturity, financial health and many more items may impact our approach to delivering client solutions.
Having served a wide variety of clients has provided Tekfortune the ability to build subject matter expertise across numerous industries. Our industry expertise combined with our specialized knowledge of Business Process Improvement, Requirements Management and Program & Project Management provides a powerful combination and a tremendous value to our clients.
We are run by a group of industry experts who have decades of experience in delivering custom solutions to our clients.
Tekfortune Inc delivers solutions to a wide variety of organizations of various sizes and industries. Our clients include mid-market to Fortune 1000 companies spanning across industries such as: Insurance, Financial, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Retail and many others.
In Tekfortune Inc, we are offering selection of services and solutions at very reasonable rates. With years of experience in the placement and recruitment Industry and over time we have acquired the knowledge essential to comprehend the exact need and dependence on customers. Therefore we provide the customers the best and also the brightest candidates for vacancies. Moreover, by understanding the working interest of customers who is able to place them within the companies where they are able to get maximum opportunity for professional growth.
Tekfortune Inc has a strong emphasis on quality. Its goal would be to achieve client satisfaction by looking into making deliveries satisfaction of customer's business needs. Our ability to quickly identify and effectively employ proven fundamental principles, techniques and resources yields highly desirable results for our clients.
We understand that each industry and organization share a level of uniqueness that requires a tailored approach in order to deliver specific solutions. Such factors as client culture, industry regulations, organizational maturity, financial health and many more items may impact our approach to delivering client solutions.
Having served a wide variety of clients has provided Tekfortune the ability to build subject matter expertise across numerous industries. Our industry expertise combined with our specialized knowledge of Business Process Improvement, Requirements Management and Program & Project Management provides a powerful combination and a tremendous value to our clients.
We are run by a group of industry experts who have decades of experience in delivering custom solutions to our clients.
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