Firmware Engineer

Job Summary

TheFirmware Engineerwill support the Global Rack Power Distribution business and interact with and support Global design test engineering product and quality teams. The Firmware Engineer understands and follows the new product development process and participates in the ideation design testing and troubleshooting release to manufacturing and sustaining activities throughout the product life cycle. This role will focus on rack power distribution products.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver high-quality safety-critical C/C code executing on real-time embedded system platforms.
• Design the software architecture and firmware implementation with a strong focus on quality testability sustainability and maintainability for high-volume manufacturing.
• Responsible for all aspects of firmware design and development for new innovative rack power distribution products and features using embedded microcontrollers designed to measure and collect sensor data calculate energy metering parameters and to provide precision control of low-voltage power distribution.
• Participates in sustaining activities for existing products including diagnosis and resolution of defects.
• Interact with engineering marketing management and project leads to assure that product development priorities are completed to schedule and budget while ensuring quality and product performance requirements are met.
• Responsible for keeping excellent organized project records and documentation.
• Product development activities include design and development design reviews documentation product verification coordination with quality assurance and field validation.

Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree or above in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science.
• 10 years of relevant experience
• Proficient in C and fluent in coding best practices for functional and structural software quality including portability and reusability.
• Experience with real-time operating systems integration e.g. FreeRTOS.
• Experience with managing concurrency and resource sharing in real time environments.
• Ability to balance the demands for processing memory I/O timing and other resource limitations in small range microcontrollers.
• Familiar with digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms and analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) techniques is a plus.
• Experience implementing BSP level boot loader and communication drivers e.g. RS232 RS485 I2C SPI.
• Experience with Git GitHub GitLab MPLAB and Eclipse IDE tools is a plus.
• Experience programming 8 16 and 32-bit microcontrollers e.g. Freescale Kinetis family TI MSP or other ARM Cortex-M architectures and Microchip PIC family.
• Ability to utilize troubleshooting tools such as multimeters oscilloscopes bus analyzers and logic analyzers.
• Strong written and contextual communication skills.
• Analytical and collaborative thinker with ability to problem solve complex and cross-functional technical issues.

The successful candidate will embrace Vertivs Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.

OUR CORE PRINCIPALS: Safety. Integrity. Respect. Teamwork. Diversity & Inclusion.

OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

Customer Focus

Operational Excellence

High-Performance Culture

Innovation

Financial Strength

OUR BEHAVIORS

Own It

Act With Urgency

Foster a Customer-First Mindset

Think Big and Execute

Lead by Example

Drive Continuous Improvement

Learn and Seek Out Development

About Vertiv

Vertiv is a $8.0billion global critical infrastructure and data center technology company. We ensure customers vital applications run continuously by bringing together hardware software analytics and ongoing services. Our portfolio includes power cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Columbus Ohio USA Vertiv employs around 20000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. Visit to learn more.

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