Firmware Engineer – Embedded Controls / Sensors
Intrepid Solutions and Services, LLC3 months ago
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$180k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, modify, and debug low-level firmware running on embedded processors and microcontrollers.
- Integrate sensors, actuators, imaging systems, motors, optics, gimbals, and control hardware with cross-functional engineering teams.
- Develop new firmware functionality and modify existing firmware for embedded subsystems.
- Troubleshoot complex problems spanning the hardware and firmware boundary.
- Support the REACT program and other critical national security missions.
Requirements
- Experience developing or modifying embedded firmware in C/C++ or similar low-level languages.
- Experience with microcontrollers, embedded processors, SoCs, and associated peripherals.
- Experience interfacing with hardware using SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, PWM, ADC/DAC, or similar interfaces.
- Experience developing firmware for motors, actuators, sensors, optics, gimbals, or other electromechanical systems.
- Strong understanding of real-time embedded systems, interrupts, timers, memory management, and hardware interfaces.
- Experience debugging firmware and hardware with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, debuggers, and laboratory equipment.
- Ability to read schematics, datasheets, interface control documents, and existing firmware.
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Active TS/SCI security clearance required.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with gimbals, motor controllers, camera and electro-optical systems, motor control, encoders, PID/control loops, stabilization systems, IMUs, cameras, environmental sensors, GNSS receivers, embedded Linux, RTOS, bare-metal development, STM32, NXP, TI, Microchip, bootloaders, firmware updates, device drivers, low-level communications protocols, UAS, robotics, autonomous systems, imaging systems, reverse engineering, and physical-hardware prototyping.
Benefits
- 401(k) with company matching.
- Dental, medical, vision, life, and disability insurance.
- Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account options.
- Ancillary offerings including hospital indemnity, accident, critical illness, and pet insurance.
- Paid time off and holiday pay.
- Based at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, with standard operating hours and flexibility for program and mission requirements; no regular travel is anticipated.
About Intrepid Solutions and Services, LLC
Intrepid Solutions and Services, LLC provides secure communications products and integration services for U.S. defense, intelligence, law-enforcement, and homeland-security customers. Now part of CIS Secure and headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia, it builds and supports secure telephones and computers, encrypted tactical communications, TEMPEST/TSG voice and video, COMSEC ancillary components, and VTC solutions. The company operates as a government contractor and systems integrator, delivering custom solutions and professional services across classified and contested environments.