Firmware Engineer
Cohu, Inc.2 days ago
San Diego, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$115k - $135k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop bare-metal C/C++ firmware for STM32H7 microcontrollers, from pin assignment and board bring-up through peripheral drivers and debugging.
- Support legacy firmware products and analyze older designs with limited documentation.
- Collaborate with hardware engineers on new electronic boards from pin definition through firmware delivery.
- Develop and improve a Windows-based C++ graphical user interface with Ethernet, CAN, serial, command, scripting, and real-time graphing capabilities.
- Create and maintain requirements, architecture, interface, test, release, and customer documentation.
- Manage code in Git with traceability from requirements through releases.
- Provide pre-sales and post-sales technical support and train customer engineers to use company interfaces.
- Set priorities across multiple projects as the group's firmware owner and sole firmware engineer.
- Travel as required for projects and customer support.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field is required; a master's degree is desired.
- Minimum of 8 years of firmware development and application-support experience for complex electromechanical or control systems.
- Strong proficiency in C and C++, including Windows application development.
- Experience with bare-metal firmware on STM32 or similar ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers, microcontroller architecture, digital circuit design, and board bring-up from schematics.
- Experience with UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, and Ethernet communication protocols; EtherCAT experience is a plus.
- Experience with bootloader development and Git.
- FPGA experience is a plus.
- Experience with motion control and/or control systems; thermal systems experience is a plus.
- Strong analytical skills, engineering judgment, ownership, prioritization, and ability to work with ambiguous or poorly documented codebases.
- Excellent English communication skills; German and/or French is a plus.
- Willingness to travel as required for projects and customer support.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) with company matching contributions.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Tuition assistance.
- Disability and life insurance.
- Profit sharing.
About Cohu, Inc.
Cohu, Inc. builds semiconductor test handlers, contactors, and automated test and inspection systems used by IDMs and OSATs to validate and package chips. The company sells capital equipment, interface hardware, thermal subsystems, and related software and services. Founded in 1947 and headquartered in San Diego, California, Cohu is publicly traded on NASDAQ (COHU) and serves markets including RF front-end modules, MEMS, and automotive electronics.