Principal Firmware Engineer, Advanced Development

Principal Firmware Engineer, Advanced Development

Our purpose is to positively impact people’s lives every day in every home around the world! We work very hard to provide our consumers with high-quality, exciting 5-star products that make life easier. We thrive on passion and innovation and are looking for great people, with great ideas, who want to build the next big thing and develop while they do. As we continue to grow, we are excited to add a Principal Firmware Engineer – Advanced Development to our global team.

OVERVIEW:

SharkNinja (creator of the familiar household brands Shark® and Ninja®) offers a fun and fast-paced work environment with countless opportunities for employees to grow as professionals. From interns to executives, we are a group of passionate, smart and motivated people with a drive to learn, innovate and succeed. This is all thanks to our devoted employees and their steadfast commitments to the consumer and innovation.

We’re looking for a dynamic, creative, talented, inspirational and committed Principal Firmware Engineer to help deliver an extraordinary pipeline of new products for the fastest growing consumer product business in the world.

We thrive on designing great products that delight our customers but know that it takes unusual individuals to make it happen.  This role will focus on bringing technical substance and inspiration to our Electrical Engineering team to ensure that imaginative but credible solutions populate our ambitious product roadmap.

Working as part of our advanced development team you will bring technical substance and inspiration to our creative efforts to ensure that imaginative but credible solutions populate our ambitious product roadmap.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead and enable firmware definition of new transformative ideas for our next generation of products leveraging new technology and out-of-the-box engineering solutions.
• Research new technologies without prejudice to identify what will drive change tomorrow.
• Develop novel firmware to enable unique prototypes to test and validate new concepts and create new development tools.
• Support product test activities.
• Drive best practices across global firmware teams throughout the firmware development life cycle.
• Develop strategies to create firmware platforms enabling code reuse.
• Participate in peer design reviews. Think critically about new product concepts and asking the provocative questions necessary for positive change.
• Collaborate with our global multi-disciplinary teams.
• Contribute to the SharkNinja IP portfolio.

ATTRIBUTES:

• Ability to identify and implement new technologies to make impactful product architecture changes.
• Ability to work in a fast paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Ability to work independently and/or leading a team, demonstrating initiative, and providing guidance.
• Solid analytical skills with a strong attention to detail.
• Good interpersonal, leadership qualities and self-awareness.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Able to pivot quickly while maintaining momentum.

SKILLS:

• Embedded firmware development experience on platforms including 32bit ARM and 8bit 8051 across multiple vendors using C/C++ and assembly language leveraging software debugging tools.
• Serial interface design including I2C, SPI, Quad SPI. UART, and SMBus.
• LCD display implementation.
• Triac universal motor control and high speed 3 phase BLDC H-Bridge motor control implementation.
• PID loop implementation including heater control.
• Li Ion and LiPo Battery pack BMS firmware implementation experience.
• Solid understanding of sensors and their implementation.
• Movement and navigation sensor experience including infrared, accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, ultrasonics, LiDARs, time of flight, cap sense and cameras.
• Edge AI and machine learning knowledge.
• Ability to read electrical schematic designs.
• Wireless communication experience including Bluetooth / Wi-Fi / 433MHz.

EDUCATION and EXPERIENCE:

• BSc or MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (or equivalent).
• Minimum 10+ years relevant experience in a senior technical leadership or innovation role.
• Experience using firmware development tools such as IDEs, compilers, debuggers, and cross-compilers.
• Previous advanced development experience - preferably working for a company or a consultant company in the consumer goods space.
• Experience in all aspects of firmware design: firmware architecture, software specification, code reviews, verification, test and documentation.
• Experience with rapid system prototyping utilizing Arduino or similar framework using C and/or Python.
• Experience using source code management tools such as Git.
• Debug experience using analysis/measurement tools such as oscilloscopes, data loggers, electronic loads and spectrum analyzers.

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