Senior Firmware Engineer

Posted:
10/22/2024, 5:01:22 AM

Location(s):
San Jose, California, United States ⋅ California, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

 

Join the Trackonomy Team! 

At Trackonomy, our employee value proposition champions your growth through varied responsibilities and a commitment to innovation. Join us to evolve professionally in a company that reshapes both industries and individuals.

Connection & Community: You're essential to Trackonomy's mission, and every team member is regarded as a founder.  Collectively, our goal is to make a lasting impact on the world, making every endeavor at Trackonomy a meaningful journey.

Growth & Development: Dive into diverse roles and learn from our seasoned leaders. Your potential and passion define your trajectory here. We value innovation and offer unparalleled opportunities, making your career journey transformative. At Trackonomy, your growth is multifaceted. Collaborate and learn directly from senior leaders across various departments. Here, your potential—fueled by capability, passion, and results—determines the scope of your role.  At Trackonomy, merit and opportunity outweigh mere experience. It's a level playing field, offering unique opportunities not found elsewhere.

Impact: Trackonomy is dedicated to impactful tech solutions that better our world. From fire prevention to enhanced security, our innovations don't just change industries; they save lives. Join us to be part of meaningful change.

 

About Trackonomy 

At Trackonomy, we are pioneering a transformative network of interconnected objects. Our goal is to bring inanimate objects to life, giving them the ability to converse, think, and interact in real-time. Envision a world where our devices seamlessly integrate with every physical entity, facilitating a global conversation among them. Our overarching mission is to craft the operating system for the connected world, one object, and sensor at a time.  Our customers are major players in various verticals such as logistics, industrial, utilities, healthcare, and government. They use our solutions for a wide range of applications like predictive maintenance, workflow optimization, asset protection, safety, security, and environmental monitoring. We are a unicorn, funded by top investors like Kleiner Perkins and 8VC.

Our executive leadership team has experience working together for over two decades, having previously held key roles in the C-suites of renowned companies such as Flextronics, Heptagon, GT-Nexus, and Digital Motors Corporation. Together, we have engineered a revolutionary technology that is yielding extraordinary results. 

Are you ready to be a part of the next chapter in Silicon Valley's hyper-growth IoT success story?

You will be a core engineer of our early-stage team. We work on everything from machine learning, to security, to high performance computing, to IoT devices, to dynamic web apps, etc. Don’t be surprised if you get to touch every system while you work here, often teaming up with other team members on critical work. Some examples of projects you may work on:

Candidates must be comfortable working with microcontrollers and low-level hardware control in a test-driven development environment.

The ideal candidate will have experience working with wireless communications modules, IoT technologies, RF protocols and have great troubleshooting and prototyping skills. 

 

Required Experience:

  • At least 4+ years of embedded code experience, with emphasis on C
  • Bachelor / Masters of Electronics Engineering and 5 years' experience  
  • Experience with real time embedded systems
  • Experience with firmware development, testing, and system level bringup and debugging
  • Experience in conducting bench modifications and fast development of hardware / firmware prototypes
  • Good interpersonal, organizational and communication skills
  • Team player, be capable of sharing knowledge, learn from others, and support other groups within an organization
  • Self-starter, highly motivated 

 

Preferred skills:

  • Experience with IoT systems and wireless/wired communication protocols
  • Knowledge about cellular protocols and industrial electronics wireless devices
  • Experience working with cellular modems
  • Knowledge of PCB design, using schematic capture and layout tools (Eagle / Altium preferred)
  • Knowledge about firmware development in best practices including proper testing, documentation, debugging and code review.
  • Experience developing bootloaders and firmware over the air update
  • Experience with Nordic (or similar) Semiconductor platforms 
  • Experience with low power embedded devices
  • Experience in evolving embedded sensor technologies and networks
  • Knowledge of one or more scripting languages (Python) 
  • Basic understanding of subsystem interfacing and I2C, SPI as well as other standard chip interface protocols
  • Comfortable reading and interpreting complex electrical schematics
  • Experience with microcontrollers and driver development for embedded peripherals
  • Experience with embedded network exchange protocols like with RSTP, PTP, LLDP and UDP/TCP is highly regarded

 

Trackonomy Systems is proud to ensure equal employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of their race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, medical condition, genetic information, marital or registered domestic partnership status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. 

We strive to provide a stellar experience throughout the application process and ensure all applicants will be given proper consideration based solely on merit and Trackonomy’s business needs.

Trackonomy Systems is dedicated to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability while interviewing, please contact [email protected].

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