Senior Firmware Engineer

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Job Description for Position: Technical Specialist - Firmware Position Requirements The right person for this position should have 6-10 years of experience in Industrial Embedded systems aligning with Industry 4.0 . He / She should be passionate, tech savvy, academically sound, have interest in embedded devices and technologies that drive the headless domain. He / She should have excellent communication skills to collaborate with global teams and be able to understand Pentair product domain to manage / develop products using industry best practices. He / She should have hands-on experience designing embedded systems architecture and execute projects to monitor, control and manage embedded devices. Role & Responsibilities Understand and explore segments product portfolio. Define design/architecture for the product firmware. Firmware development & troubleshooting. Code review and quality assurance using industry standard tools. Ensure process compliance, best practices and leveraging AI in simplifying them. Mentor project team members. Manage launched products firmware lifecycle. Manage product challenges due to external factors such as market or supply chain. Collaborate with Business Unit, Cross functional and Delivery Teams to achieve Project goals for firmware. Knowledge: Exposure to Industrial IoT equipment like PLC (Siemens, Allen Bradley) , Edge devices and gateways Knowledge of Industrial IOT domain protocols like Modbus, PROFINET, OPC-UA, EtherNet/IP Exposure to Microprocessor Architecture Family e.g. ARM Cortex, Raspberry PI, iMX series, RISC V Knowledge of embedded linux , device driver concepts and inter process communication. Knowledge of Build toolchains and framework such as Build root, Yocto Knowledge of Microcontroller peripherals and drivers e.g. ADC, DAC, UART, RS485 , Ethernet Understanding of different types of analog & digital sensors and their qualification/verification process Knowledge of Wireless protocols WI-FI , Bluetooth/BLE , IoT Cellular. Knowledge of networking concepts like OSI layers, embedded TCP/IP stacks and common IP protocols. Knowledge of IoT communication protocols MQTT , COAP, AMQP DFMA and DFMEA , Design release process Coding standards , guidelines, and compliance tools Version control and repositories using git tools Software quality assurance and automated testing tools Experience / Skills: Experience of integrating and enabling products in factory environment Maintain, support & troubleshoot products already in production Documenting Software Design (flow charts, state diagram, logic design, analysis, implementation, debugging and testing etc) Good hands-on programming in Embedded C, Golang Programming in scripting languages such as batch, shell, python, Nodejs is a plus. Experience with AWS/Google cloud for device connectivity. Exposure to IoT cloud services. e.g. AWS IoT is a plus. Understanding of Schematic/ Hardware design around microcontrollers like ST, TI, Atmel, Microchip, ARM core Key Interfaces Global Project team members GEC Engineering Team External vendors and suppliers Qualifications and Experience: M.Tech/B.Tech in Computer Science / Electronics Engineering from a good Engineering College. Other Requirements: Team player Good communication and presentation skills Ability to multitask Design Thinking Have passion for Design & Technology Should have a “can do” attitude Excellent interpersonal skills Show more Show less