Senior FW Engineer

Join NevadaNano and develop state-of-the-art gas sensing systems that help control global warming! NevadaNano is a fast-paced small business that has developed patented gas sensing technologies. These exciting technologies are used by our customers to control emissions of greenhouse gasses. NevadaNano is looking for a Senior FW Engineer to be a leader in developing a high volume, low cost IIoT device. This person will collaborate closely with an existing HW engineering, analytics, field services, and manufacturing teams. This is an amazing opportunity to join a small company at the beginning of a tremendous growth phase and help develop a green-technology product that will be produced in the millions. 

Primary Responsibilities

• Generate Specifications
• Identify leverageable Code modules
• Define Architecture
• Collaborate w/HW Development
• Identify tools and define development practices
• Implement critical portions of the code base
• Oversee development efforts of other firmware contributors.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience working as an embedded C/C++ developer with strong problem-solving skills.
• Strong experience allocating and configuring peripherals on ARM based microprocessors.
• Previous experience and knowledge in protocol software development of one or more of wireless protocols such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth/BLE, Sigfox, LoRa, Zigbee or Z-Wave.
• Previous experience with battery-based devices with a focus on low power design
• Previous experience developing code image update and revision management for a large number of remote devices.
• Working knowledge of reliable SQA practices and release management
• Strong knowledge of DFT practices.
• Knowledge of code profiling and processor loading analysis practices to collaborate in hardware processor and peripheral selection 

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field.
• Familiarity with at least one RTOS environment.
• Experience setting up development environments with development tools like IAR/Keil and Git version control system.
• Experience with common bus protocols such as I2C and SPI.
• Experience in using Python.
• Experience with simulations in Matlab is a plus.

Desirable Traits

• Love of startups and small companies
• Collaborative – enjoy working on multiple tasks with multiple groups
• Self-starter – do what needs to be done without being told what to do
• Modest – focused on what is best for the team and company
• Customer focused – passion to give customer best experience possible
• Student – always open to learning
• Be willing to wear multiple hats – do what needs to be done
• Creative – ability to search for and implement new ideas and solutions

Email resumes to rogers@nevadanano.com