Senior Firmware Engineer - Contractor (Remote)
Senior Firmware Engineer - Contractor (Remote)
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22-06-2025
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Posted on :
22-06-2025
Job Description
Wilcox develops innovative world class electro-mechanical combat systems for todays warfighters and law enforcement officers. Senior Firmware Engineers are a core component of the development team serving as the technical authority for firmware development and while working to deliver best-in-class products. Senior Firmware Engineers work closely with Electrical Engineers System Engineers Quality Engineers Program Managers external partners and the customers to ensure Wilcox stays on the leading edge of technology and innovation while ensuring the team is delivering a product that our customer can trust his/her life with.
Roles & Responsibilities
Advanced Firmware Development & Architecture:
Education & Experience:
**Compensation offered may vary depending upon job-related knowledge skills and experience.
Wilcox provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
Roles & Responsibilities
Advanced Firmware Development & Architecture:
- Leads end-to-end design and implementation of large-scale or highly complex firmware projects (e.g. multi-processor systems advanced RTOS or bare-metal architectures).
- Establishes standards for firmware modularity reuse and maintainability.
- Champions best practices for debugging hardware-in-the-loop testing and overall embedded development life cycle.
- Guides cross-team technical strategies (e.g. firmware build pipelines release management).
- Aligns firmware tasks with product requirements collaborating with Hardware Software QA Systems Engineering and Program Management teams.
- Interact with external vendors or third-party engineering teams to evaluate components SDKs or toolchains.
- Influences firmware release processes and helps evaluate tools/technologies for continuous improvement.
- Identifies and mitigates risks early making strategic decisions that balance performance cost and time-to-market.
- Aligns firmware tasks with product requirements collaborating with Hardware Software QA Systems Engineering and Program Management teams.
- Leads design reviews fosters knowledge-sharing sessions.
Education & Experience:
- Bachelors degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering/Computer Science
- 7 years of experience in a firmware engineering role or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Expert with Object-Oriented modular coding styles including data structures.
- Proficient with bootloaders and pre-application code execution.
- Understanding of USB Protocol.
- Working knowledge of RTOS/Linux embedded designs.
- Proficient implementing of SPI I2C UART Synchronous/Asynchronous memory interfaces RTC PWM GPIO.
- Familiarity with secure boot.
- Familiarity with OTP.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office suite (Microsoft 365 Teams).
- Proficiency in using code management and defect tracking tools (e.g. JIRA SVN GIT).
- Experience with ARM processor designs and development.
- Wilcox is a U.S government defense contractor and this position requires access to export-controlled technology. Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access U.S. government-controlled technology prior to beginning work.
- U.S citizenship is required for this position.
- Experience with audio/video data stream processing.
- Proficient with USB PD Protocol.
- Proficient with secure boot.
- Proficient with OTP.
- Masters Degree.
- Must be able to sit stand walk talk hear; use hands and fingers to handle and touch objects tools or controls to work in a production environment. Vision abilities required including close vision distance vision color vision and the ability to adjust focus to work. Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer. Must be able to lift 25 pounds at times.
- Ability to work at a computer for extended periods.
- Ability to perform physical tests and handle tools/equipment used for prototyping.
**Compensation offered may vary depending upon job-related knowledge skills and experience.
Wilcox provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Contract
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