Forge Performance Group is a Recruitment & Talent Management solutions team located in Calgary, AB. We are dedicated to connecting our clients with highly skilled professionals well-matched to their unique hiring needs, culture, and goals. This opportunity is posted on behalf of one of our clients.
Intermediate Embedded Firmware Engineer
Overview
We’relooking for afull-time remotefirmware leaderto own embedded software for a renewable energy inverter. You willbe responsible forowning the design of firmware for real-time control, communication,telemetryand test automation.This role works closely with hardware and test engineersto define requirements, build robust test procedures,and shipproduction-grade firmware.
Key Responsibilities
- Own firmware technical roadmap, architecture decisions, and delivery for a multi-controller embedded system.
- Lead planning, estimation, prioritization, and execution of firmware workstreams across new features, validation, and field issues.
- Define firmware requirements and test procedures to validate new features.
- Develop and maintain firmware on Microchip PIC16 & PIC32 MCU’s using MPLAB X, MCC and X32 toolchain.
- Deliver safe and deterministic behavior for closed loop control systems.
- Build and maintain firmware validation tooling and automation.
- Drive coding standards and best practices across code reviews, documentation, testing, and long-term maintainability
Required Skills & Experience
Abachelor's degree in Electrical& Electronic / Software Engineeringor equivalent.Strong firmware experience working with embedded C & microcontrollers for 3+ years.Experience with communication protocols SPI, UART, I2C & peripherals such as ADCs & PWMs.Proven ability to debug complex issues.Ability to define system behavior using state diagrams and translate them into deterministic embedded firmware.Ability to read electrical schematics, datasheets, and functional diagrams.Expertise in control theory, feedback / feedforward loops, and frequency response.Proficiency with Git workflows (branching, reviews, releases)Nice To Haves
Experience with TCP / UDP networking and Wi-Fi module integration in embedded systems.Jenkins or comparable CI / CD release pipelines.Experience using JIRA for backlog, requirements, and feature tracking.Experience with Python and scripting languages.Knowledge of higher-level programming languages and experience using AWS cloud services.Understanding of Grid Technologies and renewable energy system.Experience with Power Electronics, oscilloscopes, and digital multimeters.#J-18808-Ljbffr