Firmware Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton5 days ago
Warner Robins, GA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$87k - $198k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, implement, test, and maintain low-level firmware controlling electronic hardware.
- Configure and optimize low-level drivers and communication protocols.
- Use JTAG, SWD, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and digital multimeters to isolate and resolve hardware and firmware issues.
- Analyze hardware schematics, component datasheets, and reference manuals to develop hardware abstraction layers.
- Perform unit tests, participate in code reviews, and document firmware architectures and API interfaces.
- Reverse engineer software, configure platform-specific solutions, and collaborate with hardware, electrical, systems engineering, and cybersecurity teams.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in bare-metal programming, microcontrollers, and debugging tools.
- Experience writing and maintaining efficient, testable code in C and C++.
- Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
- Bachelor's degree or 8+ years of firmware engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
- Preferred experience with Bluetooth Low Energy, Wi-Fi, Zigbee, or LoRa communication stacks.
- Preferred experience with electrical schematics, PCB design concepts, Python or Bash scripting, automated testing, and build environments.
- Preferred knowledge of secure boot, encryption, and trust zones for embedded devices.
- Top Secret clearance and a master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field are preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with work at a Booz Allen or customer facility according to leadership expectations and role needs.
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards and other total well-being programs.
- Regular full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week may be eligible for Booz Allen benefit programs.
About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds and integrates software, analytics, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions while providing engineering and consulting services, primarily for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil government clients, with select commercial partnerships. Its business is largely government contracting and professional services delivering mission systems and cyber defense. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: BAH).