Firmware Engineer

Eaton’s Electrical division is currently seeking a Firmware Engineer to join our team in Richmond, VA. This position will be a hybrid role as long as you live within 50 miles of our Richmond, VA facility. Relocation benefits will be provided within the United States only.

Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.

This position will give applicants an opportunity to understand the current products within our Data Center Power Distribution (DCPD) portfolio and develop modern solutions based on those products in the context of a larger, experienced team. Applicants are expected to design and implement features while estimating timeline of completion, resources needed to implement, and testing required to validate the feature.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $94,000 - $138,000 a year.

Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

What You’ll Do

• Design and develop embedded firmware for use primarily with Power Distribution Units, Remote Power Panels, Static Transfer Switches, metering products, and other electronic assemblies
• Implement device drivers and peripheral logic for a variety of operating systems including Zephyr, FreeRTOS, and bare metal devices
• Develop robust and redundant state machine implementations for control logic
• Work with a cross-functional team to understand customer requirements and effective methods to deliver business value

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• Develop these systems in a manner in which programmatic, automated testing can easily be accomplished
  
  
  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of a Bachelors Degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum of three (3) years of C or C++ development
• Minimum of two (2) years of Real Time Operating System (RTOS)
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.
  
  

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Preferred Qualifications

• State Machine development experience
• C or C++, State Machine development (FSM or similar)
• Cybersecurity scanning and vulnerability management
• Continuous Integration Continuous Development (CICD) integration7
• Field Programmable Grid Array or Programmable Logic Device (FPGA or PLD) development
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) experience

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• Power Electronics design or high voltage lab experience"
• Requirements management and traceability, interdisciplinary communication and boundary identification, ability to recognize how technical solutions deliver business value
  
  
  

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