Senior Firmware Engineer

Job Description

As an intelligent power management company, Eaton is fully engaged in our digital transformation to improve our internal business processes and to reach and serve our customers better and provide them with new value. We are reshaping the way we think and work – leveraging digital tools and technologies to accelerate our transformation and instilling a digital mindset from the ground up.

Eaton is currently seeking a Senior Firmware Engineer to join our team based in Rockville, MD or Plymouth, MN. Hybrid work available!

Eaton provides a competitive total rewards package commensurate with applicable skills, knowledge, and experience.

At Eaton, we know that good benefit plans are important to employees and their families. In addition to a competitive base salary, Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits as well as some of the following perks:

• Flexible work options to help balance work/life demands (at participating Eaton sites)
• Tuition assistance or financial help for ongoing learning and development
• Donation matching (U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico)

Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits at a Glance.

In this role as a Sr. Firmware Engineer, you will develop next generation technology solutions to enable the smart grid to become smarter! You will be a member of a dynamic, experienced team who can help design, implement, and test smart algorithms and controls for our exciting digital devices. In this role you will:

• Participate in all phases of the product development lifecycle to ensure quality and reliability
• Design, implement, and test software for RF network, control algorithms, embedded drivers, protocols, and communication technologies
• Develop supporting engineering documentation including software requirements specifications, design documentation and design verification test plans
• Estimate workload, establish and maintain project schedules and monitor progress through the project execution phases.
• Ensure the product specifications are complete, accurate and achievable.
• Conduct root cause analyses and provide solutions for software problems
• Collaborate with external and internal customers including training.
• Communication with the cross functional team to ensure schedule, cost and performance alignment.

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in embedded software development in C, C# and/or C++
• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50-mile radius of Plymouth, MN or Rockville, MD will be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation
• Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Electrical, Electronics, Computer, or Software Engineering from an accredited institution
• Experience in developing RF networking technologies including WiFi, Bluetooth/BLE, Cellular
• Knowledge of networking protocols and OSI model
• Experience in Agile design methodologies
• Familiarity with software configuration and change management processes and tools (SVN, Git, Jira, etc.)
• Experience developing solutions utilizing ARM Cortex processors
• Experience working with Real Time Operating Systems
• Working knowledge of shell scripts and python

Experience with test equipment such as: oscilloscope, logic analyzers

Eaton considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with local laws. To request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application or interview process, please call 412-893-3600 or send an email to: [email protected]

What you will get from us

Eaton’s mission is to improve the quality of life and the environment through the use of power management technologies and services. We provide sustainable solutions that help our customers effectively manage electrical, hydraulic and mechanical power – more safely, more efficiently and more reliably. Making what matters work at Eaton takes the passion of every employee around the world. We create an environment where creativity, invention and discovery become reality, each day. It’s where bold, bright professionals like you can reach your full potential—and where you can help us reach ours. Eaton’s 2020 revenues were $17.9 billion, and we sell products to customers in more than 175 countries. We have approximately 85,000 employees.

We make work exciting, engaging and meaningful for our employees through our dedication to tackling some of the toughest power management challenges on the planet and by never losing sight of what matters. Our culture is built on a strong commitment to practicing our core values and supporting our employees with the tools they need to succeed. We pledge to always foster a diverse and inclusive environment, including inclusion resource groups that bring together employees who share a common purpose, interest or background. In the past year, our company has received top employment recognition by the Human Rights Campaign and almost fifty percent of our Board of Directors represented diverse groups. When we embrace the different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds that make each of us unique, we — as individuals and as a company — are stronger.

We have demonstrated our passion for sustainability with the recent announcement of cutting carbon emissions from the company’s operations by at least 50 percent by 2030. We are ethical, passionate, accountable, efficient, transparent and committed to learning. We are confident we can deliver on our promise to improve the quality of life and the environment because of the attributes that our employees embody.

We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.

Job: Engineering

Region: North America – US/Puerto Rico
Organization: EPG EAS Electrical Automation Solutions

Job Level: Individual Contributor
Schedule: Full-time
Is remote work (i.e. working from home or another Eaton facility) allowed for this position?: Yes – Hybrid
Does this position offer relocation?: No
Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time