Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer

Overview

Client is seeking a Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer to design develop and support firmware for IoT and video-streaming products. This role will own major firmware components throughout the product lifecycle and collaborate with hardware cloud mobile QA and manufacturing partners to deliver reliable production-ready devices.

Core Responsibilities

• Design develop debug and maintain embedded firmware for IoT and video-streaming products.
• Own major firmware components and features from initial design through production.
• Develop and integrate device drivers communication protocols RTOS components and platform firmware.
• Collaborate with hardware cloud mobile QA and original design manufacturer partners on system integration and product delivery.
• Troubleshoot complex firmware hardware and system-level issues.
• Optimize firmware for performance memory usage power consumption resource utilization and reliability.
• Review board schematics component datasheets and hardware documentation to support development and debugging.
• Participate in design reviews code reviews and root-cause analysis.
• Evaluate SoCs image sensors wireless modules and other components for future products.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering standards and process improvements.

Essential Qualifications Skills and Technologies

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Electrical Engineering or a related field or equivalent industry experience.
• 7 years of embedded firmware development experience.
• Strong Embedded C and C programming skills.
• Software development experience across RTOS and Embedded Linux platforms.
• Understanding of real-time multimedia applications including video and audio processing compression and streaming technologies such as H.264 and H.265.
• Multithreaded and multitasking embedded software development experience.
• Experience developing and debugging embedded device drivers.
• Strong embedded-system debugging troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Experience optimizing embedded software for performance and resource utilization.
• Working knowledge of TCP UDP HTTP/HTTPS RTP RTSP SIP and WebRTC.
• Experience with Wi-Fi BLE and LTE wireless technologies.
• Familiarity with IoT communication architectures and cloud-connected devices.
• Hands-on experience with oscilloscopes logic analyzers and protocol analyzers.
• Experience using Git or a comparable source-control system.

Preferred Skills or Experience

• Masters degree in Computer Science Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• Firmware development experience involving consumer IoT smart-home networking or video-streaming products.
• Experience with Zigbee Z-Wave Thread or Matter.
• Knowledge of Linux memory management file systems and bootloaders such as U-Boot.
• Python Perl or Lua scripting experience.
• Experience supporting products through manufacturing and production.

Work Details

• Remote role within California USA

Nesco Resource offers a comprehensive benefits package for our associates which includes a MEC (Minimum Essential Coverage) plan that encompasses Medical Vision Dental 401K and EAP (Employee Assistance Program) services.

Nesco Resource provides equal employment opportunities 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.