37500837
:Contract Engineer Embedded Mid.
Number of Positions: 2
Experience: 7+ Years
Location: Remote (British Columbia, Canada)
Job Description Summary

- Experience developing firmware for consumer IoT or smart home products.
- Experience with industry protocols such as Zigbee, Z-Wave, Thread, and Matter.
- Knowledge of Linux memory management, file systems, and bootloaders such as U-Boot.
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or Lua.
- Experience supporting products through manufacturing and production.

Responsibilities
- Design, develop, debug, and maintain embedded firmware for IoT and video streaming products.
- Own major firmware components and features throughout the product development lifecycle, from design to production.
- Collaborate with Hardware, Cloud, Mobile, QA, and ODM partners to ensure successful system integration and product delivery.
- Develop and integrate device drivers, communication protocols, RTOS components, and platform firmware.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex firmware, hardware, and system-level issues.
- Optimize firmware for performance, memory usage, power consumption, and system reliability.
- Review board schematics, component datasheets, and hardware documentation to support firmware development and debugging.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and root-cause analysis to improve software quality.
- Evaluate new SoCs, image sensors, wireless modules, and other hardware components for future product development.




- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices and continuous process improvements.

Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field; Master's degree is a plus, or equivalent industry experience.
- 7+ years of experience in embedded firmware development, preferably with IoT, networking, or video streaming products.
- Strong programming skills in Embedded C and C++.
- Experience developing software on RTOS and Embedded Linux platforms.
- Solid understanding of real-time multimedia applications, including video/audio processing, compression, and streaming technologies (H.264/H.265).
- Experience with multithreaded and multitasking embedded software development.
- Experience developing and debugging embedded device drivers.
- Solid debugging, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills in embedded systems.
- Experience optimizing embedded software for performance and resource utilization.
- Working knowledge of networking protocols, including TCP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, RTP, RTSP, SIP and WebRTC.
- Experience with wireless communication technologies such as Wi-Fi, BLE, and LTE.
- Familiarity with IoT communication architectures and cloud-connected devices.
- Hands-on experience using hardware debugging tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and protocol analyzers.
- Experience using source control systems such as Git.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.

📌 Contract Engineer Embedded Mid (Richmond)
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