Firmware Team Lead

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world's manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility - our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that's you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

Firmware Team Lead

About Rockwell Automation

Rockwell Automation, the world's largest company dedicated to industrial automation, makes its customers more productive and the world more sustainable. Our flagship Allen-Bradley® and Rockwell Software® product brands are recognized throughout the world for innovation and excellence. When you choose Rockwell Automation, you join a team of accomplished employees who have helped us establish our leadership position in the automation industry over the past century. You join a diverse, inclusive and global community with a passion for innovation. You join a place where you can partner with great minds and inspiring people. And you join a corporation backed by the financial strength that drives growth and career opportunities. As much as we focus on our customers, we know our employees are important to our success and future. Helping you develop a rewarding career is a top priority, because when you succeed, we succeed.

Position Summary

Rockwell Automation's Sensing, Safety and Industrial Components Business is looking for a Firmware Team Lead to be a significant contributor to a next generation of new product development responsible for the design, analysis, test and integration of Firmware for embedded communication and control modules. Reporting to the Firmware Manager, this hands-on technical position requires the proven ability to work with product management, hardware engineering, and firmware developers to create project specifications and execute through the entire development cycle.

Our Offer

• Innovative and interesting projects
• Professional work environment with a high emphasis on product quality
• Opportunities for training and development of professional skills
• Multinational work environment
• Great benefits package
• Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that recognizes the importance of work/life balance.

Principal Responsibilities

• Oversee and lead the activities of a small firmware team (5-10 developers) for software enhancements and new product initiatives.
• Manage development activities of the team using Agile-Scrum methodology. Facilitate scrum processes, e.g. daily stand ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews and retrospectives
• Maintain a strong and high-performance team by providing technical leadership, guidance, and coaching.
• Support the hiring process and evaluate performance of individual developers.
• Monitor team's progress daily while mitigating risks and resolving roadblocks.
• Work with project stakeholders to define success criteria and establish priorities.
• Manage project deliverables.
• Establish and ensure adherence to budgets, schedules, work plans and performance requirements.
• Participate in the design and development of new architectures and frameworks for scalable product platforms.
• Coordinate and communicate with cross-functional teams including Engineering, Product Management and Manufacturing with the goal of total customer satisfaction. This will require knowledge of product family hardware, firmware, and electrical specifications as well as mechanical, reliability and/or architectural specifications.
• Interact and collaborate on products and projects with a team of engineers located in the US, Europe and Asia.
• Develop embedded software on low cost/low power microcontrollers and ASICs
• Participate in code, requirements and test case reviews and play a lead role in defining and maintaining the core software development process.

• Author architecture level design documents
• Time will be split between supervisor duties (30-50%) and developer activities (50-70%)

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other technical discipline or relevant work experience
• Legal authorization to work in the US is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
• Willingness to travel up to 15% internationally

Desired Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 2 years in a technical leadership role
• Typically requires a minimum of 7 years of experience in Firmware and/or software design and development
• Deliver high-quality C code in a real-time embedded environment
• Proven ability to analyze and solve complex problems involving hardware and firmware.
• Experience in firmware development process
• Experience in code collaboration tools and design reviews
• Demonstrated ability to understand existing codebases and refactor when required
• Excellent design, debugging and optimization skills
• Ability to work with emulators and hardware tools to debug issues down to the register level
• Ability to read a schematic
• Experience with Agile framework
• Experience in safety or regulated industries
• Knowledge of IEC 62443
• Knowledge of secure coding & testing practices
• Knowledge of cryptographic algorithms and protocols
• Experience with ARM architecture, ST, and Renesas processor families.
• Understanding of RS-232, USB, Ethernet and packet-based communication protocols
• Experience with typical embedded control peripherals such as A/D, D/A, timers & general purpose I/O
• Experience with standard version control systems

To learn more about our benefits package, please visit at www.raquickfind.com.

This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor.

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