Job Description An employer is looking for a highly skilled hybrid firmware engineer to join one of our largest national clients for a contract-to-hire opportunity. In this role you'll join a growing team, and work to support connected thermostats. This is an iOT product connected to the cloud, therefore any prior experience working with connected devices like thermostats will help you be successful on this team. This team is focused on supporting real time operating systems connected to Wi-Fi. You will not need to develop the Wi-Fi module but will be supporting the connected layer of the thermostat on this team. Responsibilities: -Work on all aspects embedded software development projects design, development, review, and test. You will have clear accountability to drive innovation utilizing new technologies in hardware, software, and emerging wireless communication protocols. -Collaborate closely with a team of highly motivated peers. -Design great products novel in capability, exceptional in quality, and always delivering an end-to-end 5-star customer experience. -Design and develop embedded software/firmware for Connected Home products. -Work closely with cross-functional teams (systems, hardware, test, quality) to produce architecturally sound designs, contribute to hardware selection, design test plans, and coordinate delivery of software modules, applications, and documentation. Cultivate 3rd party vendor relationships as needed. -Research technical problems and implement appropriate algorithm solutions. -Explore tools and techniques and contribute to efforts that benefit firmware design, development, testing and management. We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. 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Skills and Requirements -Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering -2+ years of embedded firmware development using C and/or C++ programming language -Strong knowledge of embedded software and embedded product development -Experience in writing firmware for embedded devices -Knowledge of embedded hardware and components -Knowledge of firmware debugging techniques and usage of tools like trace analyser and JTAG -Experience of using lab tools (i.e. multimeter, oscilloscopes, logic analyser) -Experience with software development environments such as Visual Studio and IAR Embedded Workbench (i.e. including compiling, linking, loading, and executing) -Experience working within the middle layer / application layer -Ability to integrate and develop new features within a product -Ability to commute to the Golden Valley location as this team operates in a hybrid environment and goes on site 3x/week -Relevant experience in home automation products and residential market -Experience working in Agile Scrum teams -Solid communication, collaborative and interpersonal skills with the ability to work and relate well with others -Experience with embedded processors such as ARM Cortex-A and Cortex-M processors. -Experience with software management tools like SVN, Bitbucket, JIRA, and requirements management tools like Contour. -Experience with Data structures, Multi-threaded programming, Object Oriented programming, Networking concepts, Network Security. -Experience with wired and wireless data communications technologies, such as SPI, I2C, UART, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and/or Z-Wave. -Experience with designing well-architected software systems/modules. -Demonstrated ability to decompose functional requirements into well-defined tasks while balancing quality, quantity and complexity in work output. -Familiarity with cryptographic concepts public key cryptography, certificates -Experience with embedded Linux environments such as Raspberry PI -Experience with standard libraries and multithreaded programming with RTOS's like ThreadX, FreeRTOS, Linux, etc. null We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion,sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military oruniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, andordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to HR@insightglobal.com.