Job Description
Position: Firmware Engineer (C/C++ Firmware)
Location: Milwaukee area, WI 53172 (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)
Type: Full time permanent direct hire role - No C2C | No Sponsorship available
Salary Range $95K - $140K + Bonus and Benefits
I am looking for a true, embedded engineer with electrical engineering degree and experience in Embedded Systems and design for firmware. This is a hands-on firmware role supporting microprocessor-based control systems used in real-world infrastructure. You’ll be writing low-level C/C++ code, building device drivers, and working directly with hardware. This role has real engineering ownership.
In this role you will join a team to
- Write embedded C/C++ firmware for low-power devices
- Develop device drivers (GPIO, SPI, I2C, UART, ADC, etc.)
- Work directly with hardware (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers)
- Support system integration, testing, and debugging
- Collaborate with EE + hardware teams
Qualifications
- 5–7+ years of embedded firmware experience (C/C++)
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering with U.S. experience
- Experience with low-power microcontrollers + RT systems
- Hands-on debugging at the hardware level
- RTOS (Zephyr, Embedded Linux) is preferred
- Signal processing (FFT/DFT) is preferred
- Communications (Ethernet, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi) is preferred
If you’ve written firmware that talks to hardware — we should talk.
Overview: Sterling Engineering / Staffing has a rich history of delivering top talent to our clients. We are a nationwide Staffing Firm that has been in business for over 57 years. With over 200 current active clients, with 500 positions in play, Sterling works within Automation, Energy, Facilities, Information Technology, Food, Logistics / Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Packaging, Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Engineering and R&D industries.
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 | Milwaukee, WI |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| 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
- Automationunmatched
- Biologyunmatched
- Biotech and Pharmaceuticalunmatched
- Bluetoothunmatched
- Building Codesunmatched
- C Programming Languageunmatched
- C++ Programming Languageunmatched
- Computer Engineeringunmatched
- Computer Firmwareunmatched
- Control Systemsunmatched
- DFT (Design for Test)unmatched
- Debugging Skillsunmatched
- Device Driversunmatched
- Electrical Engineeringunmatched
- Embedded Linuxunmatched
- Embedded Systemsunmatched
- Ethernetunmatched
- Fast Fourier Transformunmatched
- Hardware Debuggingunmatched
- I2Cunmatched
- Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
- Integration Testingunmatched
- Logic Analyzerunmatched
- Logisticsunmatched
- Low Powerunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Microcontrollerunmatched
- Microprocessorunmatched
- Oscilloscopeunmatched
- Realtime Operating Systemunmatched
- Research & Development (R&D)unmatched
- Signal Processingunmatched
- Supply Chainunmatched
- System Integration (SI)unmatched
- System Testunmatched
- Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter (UART)unmatched
- Wi-Fiunmatched
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