Job Description

Position Title

Senior Staff Firmware Engineer

Company Overview

Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR) (TSX: SW) is an IoT pioneer, empowering businesses and industries to transform and thrive in the connected economy. Customers Start with Sierra because we offer a device to cloud solution, comprised of embedded and networking solutions seamlessly integrated with our secure cloud and connectivity services. OEMs and enterprises worldwide rely on our expertise in delivering fully integrated solutions to reduce complexity, turn data into intelligence and get their connected products and services to market faster. Sierra Wireless has 1,400 employees globally and operates R&D centers in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.sierrawireless.com. Sierra Wireless is an equal-opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse working environment. We welcome people of every race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Summary

We have an opportunity for a Senior Staff Firmware Engineer to join our Cellular Platform team to develop and maintain embedded software and supporting tools to provide reusable components to the module firmware teams. In this role, you will work with various R&D teams on architecture decisions in order to provide comprehensive and cohesive end-to-end solutions. You will have a very good understanding of the product development cycle, and both a broad and detailed understanding of various aspects of the embedded software and/or supporting tools. You will have regular autonomous collaboration both within and outside the department and also have collaboration with external parties. You will be able to take a problem statement and come up with an overall design for the solution that can identify aspects beyond just the scope of firmware (host software, documentation, validation, training, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Review product requirements
• Design platform features
• Triage and resolve customer issues
• Collaborate with other development teams on features and issues
• Provide training, guidance, and mentorship to less experienced staff
• Provide feedback on process and template improvements

Required Education, Experience & Competencies

• Minimum of a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering, computer software engineering, computer science, or a related discipline
• 10+ years of professional experience, or equivalent
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Embedded software development experience in C
• Experience working with embedded multi-threaded operating systems
• Ability to work independently and in teams
• Ability to lead technical teams
• Ability to break down complex problems or tasks into subcomponents
• Excellent problem-solving ability with systematic debugging skills

Desired Education, Experience & Competencies

• Wireless WAN protocols such as LTE
• 3GPP protocol specifications
• GNSS operation and control
• Embedded Linux programming and Linux device drivers
• Embedded driver development involving PCIE, USB, UART, GPIO, or I2C
• Memory management systems, file systems, and memory protection algorithms
• ARM processor architecture and tool chains
• TCP/IP suite of protocols
• Source code control systems such as SVN and GIT/Gerrit
• Defect tracking systems such as JIRA
• Collaboration tools such as Confluence