Senior Firmware Engineer
Novanta Inc.2 months ago
Bedford, MA, USASenior
Base Salary
$130k - $170k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain firmware for sensor technology.
- Implement signal-processing algorithms and control loops, including automatic gain control, PID, gain offset, and phase correction.
- Design and integrate MCU firmware optimized for performance, resource utilization, latency, and power efficiency.
- Implement low-level CAN, BiSS, SPI, I2C, UART, and Ethernet communication protocols.
- Collaborate with hardware, FPGA, systems, electrical, and application software engineers to define requirements and integrate firmware.
- Develop test benches and use oscilloscopes and logic analyzers to validate designs against functional and performance requirements.
- Participate in code reviews, documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Support manufacturing and field teams with debugging and troubleshooting.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of firmware engineering experience focused on MCU firmware design, development, and testing.
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related advanced degree.
- Demonstrated experience programming firmware in C.
- Experience with signal processing, including automatic gain control, PID, gain offset, and phase correction.
- Experience with CAN, BiSS, SPI, I2C, UART, and Ethernet communication protocols.
- Familiarity with digital and analog electronics, electrical schematics, and oscilloscopes.
- Ability to read electronic schematics and understand peripherals connected to an MCU.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Experience with software configuration management and revision control systems such as GitHub.
- Experience with Microsoft tools including Visio, Excel, and Word.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies and/or Kanban and associated tools such as Atlassian Jira.
- Ability to travel approximately once or twice per year to trade shows, customer sites, or partner business units.
Benefits
- Full range of medical, financial, and other benefits.
- Full-time employment with occasional travel of approximately once or twice per year.
- Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace.
About Novanta Inc.
Novanta Inc. designs and manufactures precision photonics, motion control, vision, and laser subsystems used by medical, life‑science, and advanced industrial OEMs. Its products support applications from minimally invasive surgery and robotics to 3D metal printing, sold as engineered components and integrated sub-systems to equipment makers. The company is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts and is publicly traded on Nasdaq under the ticker NOVT, with global operations across the Americas, Europe, and Asia‑Pacific.