Firmware Developer

Location: Abbotsford, BC

Opportunities are available at junior, intermediate, and senior levels , with leadership paths for more experienced candidates.

Salary: $75,000 to $110,000 - depending on level of experience

Full time | Permanent

About The Role

We’re looking for a Firmware Engineer / Developer to join a multidisciplinary engineering team building high-performance industrial tools used worldwide.

You’ll play a key role in designing, developing, and deploying firmware for next-generation products, contributing at both the system and embedded software levels .

What You’ll Do

- Design, develop, and maintain embedded firmware solutions
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams
- Translate requirements into scalable firmware architecture
- Debug, test, and validate system performance
- Contribute to full product lifecycle (design → release → support)
- Create and maintain technical documentation
- Support continuous improvement of development processes
- (Senior) Mentor junior developers and lead technical initiatives

What You Bring

- Degree in Electrical, Computer Engineering, or similar
- Experience with C/C++ in embedded systems
- Strong understanding of:
- Microcontrollers & SoC architecture
- Communication protocols (I2C, SPI, UART, TCP/IP)
- Real-time systems and concurrency

- Experience debugging embedded systems and implementing firmware unit tests




- Experience with source code management tools, such as SVN or Git

Additional Requirements (preferred)

- RTOS (e.g. FreeRTOS) or embedded Linux (Yocto)
- Bluetooth / Wi‑Fi integration
- Bootloaders (e.g. U‑Boot)
- DSP, motor control, or FPGA (VHDL/Verilog)
- Familiarity with Git/SVN and SDLC best practices
- Experience reading schematics and using lab tools (oscilloscopes, analyzers)
- Experience in product development of manufacturing

Who You Are

- Strong communicator (technical & non-technical audiences)
- Organized, self-driven, and accountable
- Collaborative team player
- Passionate about building high-quality products
- Comfortable working on multiple projects and priorities

Why You’ll Love This Job

- Work on innovative, real-world industrial products
- Be part of a collaborative, engineering-driven environment
- Grow your career with opportunities for leadership
- Contribute to products used across global industries

Disclosure

This posting represents an active and genuine vacancy with one of 3 Step Recruitment's clients and is not for speculative or pipeline recruitment.
3 Step Recruitment and/or our Clients may use, from time to time, AI‑assisted tools to support the screening and evaluation of applications; however, these tools are not intended to replace human judgement or decision‑making in the hiring process.

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📌 Firmware Development Team Lead (Abbotsford)
🏢 3 Step Recruitment
📍 Abbotsford