Firmware Engineer

Who we are:

EMC (Energy Management Collaborative, LLC) manages and scales turnkey energy efficiency solutions for Fortune 500 clients across their North American portfolios. Since 2003, the company has used its total project management approach, EnergyMAXX, to successfully implement thousands of projects on an annual basis including efficient lighting, smart building controls, ROI-driven IoT solutions, electric vehicle supply equipment infrastructure and ongoing maintenance and warranty support. In doing so, EMC has helped clients realize billions of kilowatt-hours of energy savings and advance their net zero emissions goals.

EMC is looking for a self-starter who is driven to learn and take on new challenges. Ideal candidates share our company values of Always Go the Extra Mile, Teamwork, Continuously Improve and Drive Change and Take Initiative.

Job Summary:

EMCs IoT Solutions Business Unit, which is a start-up within the broader organization, is planning on launching a new and innovative life-safety IoT product. EMC is looking to build out an internal team to launch and support this product, as well as design future new products. These products are microcontroller-based embedded systems. A key component of the product ecosystem is the electrical engineering hardware aspect.

EMC is looking for an electrical engineer with a hardware focus to join our IoT Solutions team. The electrical engineer will encompass defining product specifications, designing schematics and PCB layout, building, testing, and validating prototypes, and supporting the manufacturing processes. Additionally, you will work closely in a complementary role with the lead firmware engineer to support all phases of the R&D effort from concept to post-launch, including product development, testing, documentation, BOM development, de-bug and troubleshooting, and work toward achieving regulatory compliance certifications, such as, UL compliance and FCC compliance.

In this role, you will also work closely with internal and external partners, and customers to ensure the product is operating reliably and in alignment with customer expectations.

Essential Job Functions:

• Contribute to and support the electronic circuitry & hardware aspects of the new EMC Life Safety IoT product.
• Design the electronic circuitry & hardware aspects of new future products.
• Design, develop, and/or modify systems to meet product specifications/goals.
• Participate with the firmware engineer in selecting embedded microcontrollers, and other electronic hardware ICs and modules such as, communication modules/ICs, sensors, I2C Multiplexor ICs, etc.
• Participate in value engineering projects/efforts.
• Design in, and implement embedded microcontrollers, and other electronic hardware ICs and modules, including interface components and connectors.
• Design and implement the AC/DC power supply module and associated circuitry.
• Design and implement DC/DC regulators to support the selected embedded microcontroller, and all system electronics and modules/ICs.
• Responsible for designing systems to achieve regulatory compliance certifications, such as, UL compliance and FCC compliance.
• Responsible for designing systems that are optimized for noise immunity, whether internally or externally generated.
• Design and develop schematics and PCB layout using EDA/CAD software tools.
• Participate in project scoping and planning.
• Build, test, troubleshoot, and document prototypes, samples, and beta-site units.
• Work with a cross-functional team of internal and external stakeholders to address pre-launch, and post-launch items.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of documentation, standard operating procedures, and knowledge base articles.

Skills and Abilities:

• Proficiency in electrical/electronic hardware design for microcontroller-based embedded systems.
• Proficiency at developing schematics and PCB layouts using CAD software tools.
• Familiarity with launching a high-quality electronics IoT business product.
• Ability to design, develop, test and debug C/C++ code and experience with NXP MCU tools is a plus.

Education:

• Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering

Experience Required:

• Five+ years of electrical/electronic engineering with R&D and new product development experience.

Experience Preferred/Helpful:

• Lighting, Electrical, and LED technical knowledge.
• Understanding of technology communication protocols such as LoRa, BLE etc.

EMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Disability, Veteran.