Staff Firmware Engineer (15161) (Sterling Heights, MI)

Contractor - Staff Firmware Engineer - Computing and Interface Products

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Design, develop Firmware for Electronic Components and Subsystems for Processing and Interface Products
• Collaborating with systems, software, and hardware engineers to develop designs for video, image & graphics processing
• Develop and review requirements and digest into work packages
• Perform embedded Linux development
• Develop baremetal C development for Xilinx FPGA
• Develop system constraints
• Perform debug through physical lab testing
• Perform Yocto Linux development on NVIDIA Jetson and Xilinx Ultrascale platforms
• Develop Linux drivers for custom peripherals
• Develop Linux drivers

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or Computer Science
• 7 - 10 years of experience
• Experience with Linux & Linux driver development
• Experience with tools/languages such as GIT, Bitbucket, C, C++, Qt, Yocto
• Experience developing baremetal C for Xilinx FPGAs using Vitis
• Experience working with mixed Operating System environments VxWorks, Linux, PetaLinux, RTOS, Virtualization, BSPs, GVOS, etc.
• Experience with serial and network protocols such as RS-232/422, CAN, TCP/IP, UDP/IP, etc.
• Experience with one or more Linux system image build tools such as Yocto
• Experience with Eclipse, Makefile, GIT, gcc, DOORs, Jira / Bitbucket / Confluence, gdb, or QT is a plus
• Experience with type I & II hypervisors is a plus
• Familiarity with security features such as SELinux, verified boot and trusted execution environments is a plus.
• Experience with Linux device drivers, bootloaders, memory maps or other system programming is a strong plus Demonstrated problem solving skills, learning capabilities, and multitasking capabilities
• Experience with Yocto Linux on NVIDIA Jetson platorms
• Experience with V4L2 & Gstreamer
• Familiarity with CUDA
• Familiarity with OpenCV
• Experience with Git or similar revision control systems
• Experience with Jira or similar issue tracking systems
• Experience with Agile like team environment

Knowledge of the following areas desired:

• MOSA, SOSA, GCIA, TSN
• Microprocessor based products and Single Board Form Factors: Intel, AMD, ARM, VPX, VME, COM Express.
• Industry standard interfaces and products (PCle, DDRxx, USB, SATA, RS422/485, MIL-1553, Ethernet, CAN, RS422/485, Solid State Drives)
• Graphics/video interfaces (HDMI, DisplayPort, HD-SDI, RS-170, LVDS)
• FPGA Design and Simulation (Xilinx Toolsets)
• EMI/EMC, High Speed Signal Integrity design practices
• Military design and test requirements including MIL-1275, MIL-461, MIL-464, MIL-810
• Six Sigma design tools including DFMEA and Reliability Analysis

Desired Experience

• This position will require eligibility to obtain a US security clearance
• (Non-US Citizens may not be eligible to obtain a security clearance)
• Previous experience working on ground combat Vehicles desired
• Must be able to work evening and/or weekend overtime as required

EOE (Veteran/Disability)