Firmware Engineer

Firmware Engineer

Shape the future of smart home technology as a Firmware Engineer on our product team. You'll help create next-generation connected security solutions that will be installed in millions of homes across North America. This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of connected smart locks and IoT access products.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work closely with lead engineers to develop firmware solutions for New Product Introductions (NPI), new features, and enhancements to existing products, including scoping, architecture, design, development, testing, validation, production release, and ongoing support.
• Work with technical and non-technical team members to translate high-level project requirements into firmware specification documents, design trade-offs, risk assessments, solutions, scope and time estimates, test plans, and execution activities.
• Map out firmware solutions for features, seek team alignment and follow through on implementation, validation, and release.
• Work with internal and external developers on solution development while continuing to optimize code size, performance, testing, and product features across all products.
• Report project progress, issues, risks, and potential solutions; test and manage defects through resolution.

Education and Experience Profile:

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
• 2+ years of professional embedded firmware development experience required.

Required Skills:

• Industry experience in embedded firmware/software development for microcontrollers.
• Design experience in C/C++ for embedded applications.
• Experience with chip-to-chip communication protocols or interfaces (I2C, SPI, UART, etc.)
• Experience with IoT connectivity protocols and interoperability standards, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread, Matter, and Aliro.
• Ability to debug firmware and work with hardware, including hardware bring-up, logic probing, and voltage measurements.
• Experience developing, debugging, and maintaining embedded firmware in bare-metal and RTOS-based environments, including task scheduling, inter-task communication, timers, interrupts, and resource management.
• Familiarity with issue-tracking software such as Jira, collaboration tools such as Confluence, and version control.
• Organized, able to multitask, and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously with varying degrees of complexity, priority, and urgency.
• Keen sense of urgency, ownership, and follow-through.
• Effective communicator who is passionate, flexible, collaborative, able to work independently, able to set goals, and brings a positive "can-do" attitude.
• Excellent documentation practices.

Additional Desired Skills:

• Experience writing firmware for low-power, battery-operated consumer devices.
• Bootloaders and firmware update OTA mechanisms.
• Embedded firmware security and signing.
• Production testing and provisioning.
• Familiarity with electronic hardware and schematics.

Business Environment:

You will be joining the Americas Residential Electronics team within ASSA ABLOY located in Lake Forest, California. We are a leading global provider of well-known brands such as Kwikset, Baldwin, and Weiser. With decades of mechanical door lock expertise, we began incorporating electronics and wireless solutions 15 years ago to deliver increasingly advanced security products. From our global engineering office in Lake Forest, with supporting teams in Taiwan, China, and Mexico, our passionate engineers ship products used by millions.

Work Environment: Working conditions are normal for an office environment. Minimal travel is required. Hybrid work includes three days per week in the office. Pay Range: $81,810-$128,570.