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Firmware Engineer

Sterling Heights, MI 48310

Posted: 10/21/2025 Employment Type: Contract Industry: Electrical Engineer Job Number: 43674 Pay Rate: 70.00

Job Description

About the Role: 
We are hiring a Firmware Engineer to work on our client’s computing and interface products

Responsibilities:
  • Design, develop Firmware for Electronic Components and Subsystems for Processing and Interface Products
  • Collaborating with systems, software, and hardware engineers to develop designs for video, image & graphics processing
  • Develop and review requirements and digest into work packages
  • Perform embedded Linux development
  • Perform Yocto Linux development on NVIDIA Jetson and Xilinx Ultrascale platforms
  • Develop Linux drivers for custom peripherals
  • Develop Linux drivers
  • Develop system constraints
  • Perform debug through physical lab testing
 Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science
  • 10+ years of experience
  • Experience with Linux & Linux driver development
  • Experience with tools/languages such as GIT, Bitbucket, C, C++, Qt, Yocto
  • Experience working with mixed Operating System environments VxWorks, Linux, PetaLinux, RTOS, Virtualization, BSPs, GVOS, etc.
  • Experience with serial and network protocols such as RS-232/422, CAN, TCP/IP, UDP/IP, etc.
  • Experience with one or more Linux system image build tools such as Yocto
  • Experience with Eclipse, Makefile, GIT, gcc, DOORs, Jira / Bitbucket / Confluence, gdb, or QT is a plus
  • Experience with type I & II hypervisors is a plus
  • Familiarity with security features such as SELinux, verified boot and trusted execution environments is a plus.
  • Experience with Linux device drivers, bootloaders, memory maps or other system programming is a strong plus Demonstrated problem solving skills, learning capabilities, and multitasking capabilities 
  • Experience with Yocto Linux on NVIDIA Jetson platforms
  • Experience with V4L2 & Gstreamer
  • Familiarity with CUDA
  • Familiarity with OpenCV
  • Experience with Git or similar revision control systems
  • Experience with Jira or similar issue tracking systems
  • Experience with Agile like team environment
 
Desired experience: 
  • MOSA, SOSA, GCIA, TSN
  • Microprocessor based products and Single Board Form Factors: Intel, AMD, ARM, VPX, VME, COM Express.
  • Industry standard interfaces and products (PCle, DDRxx, USB, SATA, RS422/485, MIL-1553, Ethernet, CAN, RS422/485, Solid State Drives)
  • Graphics/video interfaces (HDMI, DisplayPort, HD-SDI, RS-170, LVDS)
  • FPGA Design and Simulation (Xilinx Toolsets)
  • EMI/EMC, High Speed Signal Integrity design practices
  • Military design and test requirements including MIL-1275, MIL-461, MIL-464, MIL-810
  • Six Sigma design tools including DFMEA and Reliability Analysis
  • Previous experience working on ground combat Vehicles desired
  • Must be able to work evening and/or weekend overtime as required
Additional Information:
  • This position may require eligibility to obtain a US security clearance . Non-US Citizens may not be eligible to obtain a security clearance)

Meet Your Recruiter

John Sabbagh
Recruiting Manager

John Sabbagh has over 10 years of recruiting experience. Starting his career as an Entry Level Recruiter at Panther, our candidates find him genuine and great resource to their career search!

Fun Fact: John is a sports fanatic, he plays in horseshoe and cornhole leagues and loves fantasy football.

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