Senior Firmware Engineer
Bothell, WA

Job Description

Job TitleSenior Firmware Engineer

Job Description

Senior Firmware Engineer

Who are we?

Philips Oral Healthcare is committed to bringing our customers the best in-mouth experience we can provide while providing them with the oral healthcare they deserve. With the strong link between oral health and heart health, we are helping people to live longer, healthier lives. A Philips Sonicare toothbrush is a household name and synonymous with quality, durability and innovation.

You will be joining a group of other highly talented, collaborative firmware engineers responsible for delivering innovative solutions for leading Oral Health care devices while having fun along the way. The firmware team is part of the larger Embedded Systems team that consists of Hardware engineers, Software engineers and ES Test Engineers that work closely with other cross-functional teams to develop products from concept to mass-manufacture.

Why join us?

At Philips Oral Healthcare, we are committed to helping you reach your true potential by understanding your strengths and setting you up for success. We do this, by listening to you; ensuring you get to solve the engineering problems that you are passionate about, supporting you with your training needs and providing you with opportunities to challenge yourself and grow. We also have great benefits including a good 401(k) matching scheme, health insurance and flexible working options.

What will you be doing?

As the Senior Firmware Engineer, you will be responsible for creating, developing and maintaining the overall Development of Philips Oral healthcare products.

Working closely with firmware team, you will be responsible for the modelling and the definition of reusable firmware components. In addition to defining product, you will be an outstanding firmware developer a portion of time and contribute to developing features on our world class Oral healthcare products. You will work with the cross functional teams to understand product vision and have the ability to translate that into features and technical requirements for the team. BS or MS degree in Computer Science/Electrical/Electronic or Computer Engineering or equivalent experience in a similar discipline

* Architectural experience for platform creation is strongly preferred
* Balance short term versus long term actions, strategic vs tactical requirements, while continuing to align the architectural road map to achieve the strategic vision
* Excellent communication (both written and verbal), interpersonal skills and experience in presenting to business and technical teams in an effective and persuasive manner
* 6 + years of recent experience with C (coding and design).

Minimum qualifications:

* Experience using logic analyzers and other hardware tools to debug complex system issues
* 8 plus years of experience with bare metal programming of 8/32 bit micro-controllers
* Ability to effectively collaborate with engineers with varying levels of experience, capable of communicating vision and mentoring fellow engineers
* Hands-on experience with new hardware bring up and ability to ramp up quickly on complex and unfamiliar code across various technology areas
* Ability to debug complex issues spanning hardware/firmware/software, using tools such as oscilloscopes, function generators, IDE's and emulators for identifying root cause and evaluating possible solutions
* Experience with various interfaces including SPI, I2C, UART etc.
* Understanding of board and system-level technologies and the ability to read, interpret and review analog and digital circuit schematics in order to develop requirements for low level drivers and hardware specific features.

Desired Experience:

* Experience working with RTOS
* Experience in wireless technologies such as BLE, Wi-Fi, Zigbee
* Experience within a regulated environment (e.g. FDA, FAA)

Why should you join Philips?

Working at Philips is more than a job. It's a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on improving 3 billion lives a year by delivering innovative solutions across the health continuum. Our people experience a variety of unexpected moments when their lives and careers come together in meaningful ways.

To find out more about what it's like working for Philips at a personal level, visit the Working at Philips page on our career website, where you can read stories from our employee blog. Once there, you can also learn about our recruitment process, or find answers to some of the frequently asked questions.

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