Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Forge Performance Group is a Recruitment & Talent Management solutions team located in Calgary, AB. They are seeking a full-time remote firmware leader to own embedded software for a renewable energy inverter. The role involves designing firmware for real-time control, communication, telemetry, and test automation, while collaborating with hardware and test engineers.
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
Skills
- A bachelor's degree in Electrical & Electronic / Software Engineering or 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)
- 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
Benefits
- Partially remote work mode
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