Creating Peace of Mind by Pioneering Safety and Security

At Allegion, we help keep the people you know and love safe and secure where they live, work and visit. With more than 30 brands, 12,000+ employees globally and products sold in 130 countries, we specialize in security around the doorway and beyond. Additionally, in 2024 we were awarded the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award, which recognizes the most engaged workplace cultures in the world.

Job Description:

Creating Peace of Mind by Pioneering Safety and Security

At Allegion, we help keep the people you know and love safe and secure where they live, work and visit. With more than 30 brands, 11,000+ employees globally and products sold in 130 countries, we specialize in security around the doorway and beyond: everything from residential and commercial locks, door closer and exit devices, steel doors and frames to access control and workforce productivity systems.

Allegion is looking for a highly motivated Lead Firmware Engineer capable of working collaboratively in a cross-functional team environment. The candidate will be expected to lead new product development and sustenance of Firmware designs for all product life cycle phases.  Additionally, the candidate will supervise, coach, and/or mentor Firmware engineering team members.  The candidate selected will need to be an organized self-starter, comfortable working in a fast-paced Embedded domain.

What You Will Do:

• You will design, develop and debug new firmware for our electronic products and systems.
• You should be able to design embedded modules meeting design attributes of a defined platform.
• Maintain and improve existing designs and source code to help attain goal of having a modularity and robustness.
• Lead and work with a team on designing, coding, testing and documentation for the product as per the defined processes.
• Provide day to day technical guidance to the team members also develop them by providing right inputs and mentoring.
• First point of contact within engineering with Internal and external customer.  Resolves Internal and external customer issues at advanced engineering level.  Lead customer presentations.
• Frequently requested to give technical assessments of situations outside of their normal scope of influence.  Able to quickly generate numerous alternative solution paths, and objectively down-select to several technically promising alternatives based on sound reasoning.
• Work with key stakeholders in defining the scope and milestones, follow ups on planning, tracking and making needed alignments for the program. 
• Work with manufacturing & operations for firmware deliveries to support the production.
• Work with cross functional teams located across the regions, also with external suppliers and vendors.
• Provide constructive feedbacks to team members on a regular basis to improve their performance.
• Track the projects and take the necessary preventive and corrective measures as per the needs of the program.
• Take initiatives in improving the product quality, productivity, processes and tools used in the program.
• Identify the purchase needs of the team and work with the manager to procure the required tools and devices.

What You Need to Succeed:

• BE or M Tech in Electrical, Electronics, Instrumentation and all allied Engineering branches.
• 8-10 Years embedded electronics experience in Firmware design and development.
• Extensive experience working on firmware development and embedded systems
• Very good C programming skills including understanding of assembly language is a plus
• Experience in leading and mentoring teams
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Must be able to work with global stakeholders across regions
• Good in project management skills like estimation, planning, execution and tracking.
• Must have worked with various Software Development Life Cycles such as waterfall, V model, agile methodologies, etc.
• Must have experience in working on various micro controllers and SoCs from different chip manufacturers.
• Must have experience in integrating SDKs for various Wireless SoCs delivered from chip manufacturers.
• Must have written low level device drivers for micro controllers and SoC - I2C, SPI, UART, ADC, PWM, etc.
• Must be agile to work under a situation of changing requirements, ability to quickly adapt to new feature request from product management.
• Good knowledge on any of the widely used embedded RTOS is required - like FreeRTOS, uCOS, VxWorks, etc.
• Worked on products that involve optimal usage of on-board battery, understanding of battery life management.
• Working experience in any of the wireless protocols - BLE, Wi-Fi, Thread, Zigbee, Z-Wave etc.

Why Work for Us?

Allegion is a Great Place to Grow your Career if: 

• You are seeking a rewarding opportunity that allows you to truly help others. With thousands of employees and customers around the world, there’s plenty of room to make an impact. As our values state, “this is your business, run with it”.
• You value personal well-being and balance, because we do too! 
• You’re looking for a company that will invest in your professional development. As we grow, we want you to grow with us. 

We Celebrate Who We Are! 

Allegion is committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace. Together, we embrace all differences and similarities among colleagues, as well as the differences and similarities within the relationships that we foster with customers, suppliers, and the communities where we live and work. Whatever your background, experience, religion, age, gender, gender identity, disability status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law, we will make sure that you have every opportunity to impress us in your application and the opportunity to give your best at work, not because we’re required to, but because it’s the right thing to do.

We Celebrate Who We Are! 

Allegion is committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace.  Together, we embrace all differences and similarities among colleagues, as well as the differences and similarities within the relationships that we foster with customers, suppliers and the communities where we live and work. Whatever your background, experience, race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, disability status, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law, we will make sure that you have every opportunity to impress us in your application and the opportunity to give your best at work, not because we’re required to, but because it’s the right thing to do.   We are also committed to providing accommodations for persons with disabilities. If for any reason you cannot apply through our career site and require an accommodation or assistance, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team.

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