Senior Firmware Developer (Engineer)

Qualitrol employees receive competitive Salaries, great Healthcare benefits, Pension Plan with company contributions, generous vacation/sickness plans, Life Insurance and more.  We are a family friendly workplace with Flexible Working Hours, and some remote, work from home opportunities.  We have annual reviews and career development planning to help get you to the next level in your career.

You will love working with colleagues who have a genuine desire to innovate and seek out complicated problems. We believe in absolute inclusion and diversity. Qualitrol associates enjoy the autonomy, breadth of responsibility, and creativity that are typical in a medium-sized company, while sharing resources, standard methodologies, and growth opportunities that are found in a Fortune 500 company like Fortive. 

Your Impact

As a Senior Firmware Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in defining requirements, crafting sophisticated software solutions, and rigorously testing applications for both new product development and incremental releases. Your responsibilities extend across multiple projects, leveraging internal and external resources to deliver top-tier products that precisely meet the demands of our customers. You will be deeply engaged in every phase of development, from requirement specification to validation, verification, and seamless deployment. Your focus will be on ensuring the highest standards of product quality, reliability, and feature completeness.

Here’s where you’ll demonstrate your proficiencies: 

• Lead the development of real-time, embedded firmware solutions tailored for critical substation monitoring and diagnostics requirements.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams across the organization, including direct engagement with customers to glean invaluable technical insights. 
• Spearhead version management and traceability initiatives to uphold rigorous development standards.
• Provide robust support to the development team, offering pre-qualification and verification testing expertise while ensuring strict adherence to all regulatory requirements governing both the product and the business.
• Supports sales and support team post release to timely meet customer needs.
• Champion the adoption and refinement of software development and validation processes, consistently striving for enhancement and optimization.
• Use Scrum Agile Methodology to drive efficiency and agility in software development processes.
• Post-release support to manufacturing and transition to production.

Skills & Experience

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• A minimum of 5+ years of hands-on experience demonstrating expertise in embedded systems design, development, testing, and debugging.
• Proficiency in Embedded C/C++ development within a real-time, multi-threaded environment.
• Extensive hands-on experience programming various peripheral interfaces such as UART, I2C, SPI, etc.
• Proven track record in developing, debugging, and testing industrial protocols such as Modbus, DNP3, IEC60870, IEC61850, along with expertise in Ethernet systems, protocol analyzers, and industry-standard SCADA practices.
• Experience in embedded, primary Windows environments, Linux environments, with a demonstrated ability to develop and implement real-time data acquisition, scheduling, and design applications.
• Supplementary experience in programming languages such as C#, PHP, JS, and scripting languages like Python is considered an asset.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with IoT protocols, IP communications, and/or industrial embedded applications.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity implementation principles.
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices.
• Familiarity with JIRA and Confluence environment.
• Experience in leveraging AI technologies within firmware development is highly desirable.
• Advanced in math.

Fortive Corporation Overview

Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.

We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.

We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.

At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.

At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.

Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.