Primary duties:
- Design, implement, and maintain embedded firmware for products used for material flow and material management automation systems for projects.
- Responsible for solving specific firmware design problems with little outside direction
- Responsible for the completion of total embedded firmware design, coding, and testing for products for intended to be released and used in industrial material handling systems.
- Completes firmware documentation in accordance with Company requirements in association with the Technical Publications department.
- Participates in the preparation of technical proposals.
- Assists with the preparation and presentation of technical and user training for customers.
- Travels to the customer site to support firmware issues or upgrades.
- Complies with customer or Company procedures for software quality assurance, software configuration control and ISO 9000.
- Define, develop and implement firmware validation test plans and test content with deep comprehension of firmware algorithms and customer specifications
- Participate in and role model an Agile/Kanban development culture which emphasizes product quality, team accountability, and continuous improvement.
Knowledge, skill, and abilities:
- Knowledge of software design methodologies such as object-oriented design and knowledge of commercial operating systems such as Window 10 and/or Unix.
- Embedded firmware design experience, user interface programming skills, and other programming skills.
- Experience with all phases of embedded firmware development in platform independent environments
- C, C++, Visual C, MS Windows (10), Visual Basic.
- Excellent written and verbal skills with customers, contractors, and team members.
- Excellent facilitation skills to lead discussions and solve problems.
- Knowledge of firmware quality assurance procedures.
- Knowledge of the capabilities of automated software configuration control systems.
- Bachelor's in computer science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering (preferred) and/or equivalent experience.
- Five or more years of experience in:
Embedded firmware experience, User interface programming experience, General programming skills, Advanced engineering principles and concept design
- Familiarity with storage and retrieval systems a plus
- Familiarity with material handling systems a plus
- FPGA experience a plus
- AB / Siemens PLC experience a plus
- CAN / Profibus / Ethernet IP / Profinet / ASi fieldbus experience a plus.
- Motor Control experience a plus
- Scripting languages for test automation (Perl, Python or similar) a plus
