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What you’ll be doing...

We have an immediate need for a Firmware Engineer to join the team and become a core contributor to the Hum Firmware Team, responsible for designing, developing, testing, and delivering firmware for next generation in-vehicle consumer and enterprise telematics devices used for vehicle tracking, fleet management, driver behavior analysis and emergency call services.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Define software architecture for product platforms.
• Develop software functional specifications for products.
• Develops and specifies data protocol messages required to transfer feature specific data between device, cellular network and backend IT systems.
• Develop software source code for products.
• Coordinates design of subsystems and integration of total system. Includes systems modeling, experimentation and data analysis, and system testing.
• Incorporates technologies from multiple disciplines including software engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineer, electro-magnetic, digital signal processing and control theory.
• Designs changes to improve overall system performance.
• Responsible to assist the QA team in test plan creation and review.
• Coordinate with manufacturing to release and maintain products.
• May make recommendations to the future direction of the products.
• Perform limited project management duties.
• Initiate, recommend, or provide solutions through designated channels.
• Work with communication protocols and peripherals, such as LTE, WiFi, BTLE, TCP/IP, and GPS.

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience.
• Two or more years of experience in designing and developing firmware in the embedded microprocessor electronics industry.
• Experience writing software in C/C++ in an embedded environment with a knowledge of assembly language.

Even better if you have:

• An advanced degree in Electronic Engineering or Computer Science.
• Experience with USB, UART, CAN, I2C and SPI.
• Automotive industry experience.
• Experience with communication protocols and peripherals, including LTE, WiFi, BTLE, TCP/IP, and GPS.