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Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer

Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer
GE Renewable Energy
8 months ago

Job Description Summary

Come bring your energy to change the world.

Grid Solutions, part of the GE Vernova portfolio of energy businesses, serves customers globally with over 12,000 employees. Grid Solutions provides equipment, systems, and services to bring power reliably and efficiently from the point of generation to end power consumers. We electrify the world with advanced grid technologies and accelerate the energy transition.

About Us

Grid Solutions, a GE Renewable Energy business, serves customers globally with over 12,000 employees. We provide power utilities and industries worldwide with equipment, systems, and services to bring power reliably and efficiently from the point of generation to end power consumers. We are focused on addressing the challenges of the energy transition by enabling the safe and reliable connection of renewable and distributed energy resources to the grid. For more about GE’s Grid Solutions, visit https://www.gegridsolutions.com.

Essential Responsibilities

  • Architects, designs, and/or programs/develops a small module or a large component, feature, set of features, whole feature area, or entire embedded software product.
  • Identifies scope of the work, provide initial estimate and justify the estimate with facts.
  • Engages in technical discussions; participates in technical designs and presents technical ideas through white boarding.
  • Designs and implements features or components of feature on request from various programs.
  • Works closely with peers and keeps engaging in a fast pace technical design and development team.
  • Executes in a fast pace delivery mode and focuses on delivering tasks to meet the product release goal.
  • Maintains code quality through best practices, code reviews, and unit testing.
  • Customer-oriented focus in the root cause analysis of issues during program execution.
  • Provides guidance to other team members with either planning and execution and/or design architecture.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering. Minimum of 8 years of embedded development experience.

Desired Characteristics

  • C++ preferably C++17 programming skills and understanding of object-oriented design and development.
  • Strong grasp of RTOS; VxWorks, embedded Linux fundamentals.
  • Good understanding and programming skills of modern languages such as GO and Python.
  • Exposure to modern development environments CI/CD, automated software unit-testing.
  • Knowledge of microcontrollers; NXP Freescale family, Xilinx SoC’s, Altera SoC's.

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