Software/Firmware Engineer

Job Description

Overview

At Zebra, we’re reinventing how businesses operate at the enterprise edge - helping them run faster, smarter, and more connected than ever before.

A dynamic community of builders, doers and problem solvers, we each play a unique role - shaping new technologies, bringing solutions to market, and partnering with companies on the front line of business.

Being a part of Zebra means making your mark as we make digital transformation a reality.

It means growing into a leader at a leading company that makes a distinct difference - because together, we’ve only just begun.

Build Today. Create Tomorrow.

Join a team of builders, doers and problem solvers.

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Zebra serves enterprises of all sizes in retail/ecommerce, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, healthcare, professional sports, and other industries to connect people, assets, and data. The company’s portfolio includes barcode printing, mobile computing, data capture, locationing, data platforms, and software

Location Solutions Business Unit – Hardware Department

The Location Solutions (LS) Hardware Development Team is responsible for the design of next generation Location Solutions products for the Industrial, Healthcare, and Sports Markets. Products incorporate a diverse set of location technologies including: Ultra-Wide-Band (UWB), ISO 24730 (2.4GHz), Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Wi-Fi, magnetic and others, to locate assets and people. Members of the hardware team design the tags, beacons, receivers, hubs, etc. that are the key hardware components in the overall location solutions. Products developed by this group include UWB tags and receivers which are used to track all NFL football players and balls at all NFL games at all stadiums. Design engineers must be creative in applying the latest technologies to solving difficult locationing problems with efficient, accurate, and reliable hardware and firmware.

Responsibilities

The candidate will work with in-house EEs, other Firmware Engineers and off-shore Joint-Development-Partners (JDMs) in the design and manufacture of Locationing Systems.

• Establishes requirements for highly complex firmware design projects and may manage a team responsible for establishing requirements.
• Architects and designs firmware projects. Finishes the phases of the projects. Follows through on all in-process and final inspection activities
• Drives code review of projects. Develops and applies technical and quality improvements
• Builds new programs, technologies and solutions based on novel or outstanding ideas. Insures new ideas and methodologies are documented for use by software teams
• Uses status as a knowledge leader in firmware design and functional knowledge across multiple engineering fields and program management to provide technical leadership to a given program
• Defines requirements for and may craft complex new tools to aid in the analysis and solving of complex problems
• Initiates cross-company collaboration and develops positive relationships with other engineering subject areas
• Exercises judgment (within broadly defined policies and practices) in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for acquiring results
• May coordinate the activities of other personnel
• Networks with key contacts outside own area of expertise. Interacts with management and senior customer personnel on matters requiring coordination across organizational lines. Represent the organization as the principal customer contact and often performs project leadership
• Collaborating with hardware engineers on processor and component selection
• Developing code for engineering debug and manufacturing test
• Designing firmware for low power, battery operation

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in an appropriate engineering discipline required
• Bachelors degree and 5+ years experience or Master’s degree
• Excellent C/C++ programming skills
• Thorough understanding of real-time-operating systems
• Ability to read schematics and component level data sheets
• Excellent knowledge of hardware subsystems and common peripheral buses I2C, SPI, USB
• Background in wireless technologies – ISO 24730, WiFi, BLE, Ultra-Wide-Band
• Experience with modern networking protocols
• Strong teammate with good communication skills