Embedded Firmware Engineer (C/C++)

Location: Chantilly, Virginia, United States. Occasional domestic and international travel of up to 15% several times a year is required.

Company

Everforth hirify.global is hiring for the RPL team to develop firmware supporting relief-providing hardware devices.

What you will do

• Design, develop, debug, and maintain firmware for embedded systems and microcontrollers.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, and product teams on system architecture and hardware/firmware interfaces.
• Write maintainable C and C++ code and optimize firmware for performance, memory usage, and power consumption.
• Develop and execute unit, integration, and system validation tests.
• Troubleshoot embedded systems and field deployments, support new hardware bring-up and validation, and contribute to code reviews.
• Maintain technical documentation and support installations, testing, and project activities during occasional travel.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of embedded firmware development experience.
• Strong proficiency in C/C++ programming.
• Experience with microcontrollers and embedded systems, including bare-metal and RTOS development.
• Familiarity with SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, and USB hardware interfaces.
• Experience using programmers/debuggers, power supplies, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG, and related debugging tools.
• Understanding of memory management, interrupts, and real-time constraints.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills; ability to read and interpret electrical schematics.
• Willingness to learn and take direction from senior engineers.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a US Government DoD Security Clearance.

Nice to have

• 3+ years of experience with electronic circuit analysis and design applications, including Altium or Siemens/Mentor Graphics PADS, SPICE/PSPICE, MATLAB, Keysight PathWave/Genesys/ADS, AWR Microwave Office, Ansys HFSS, ModelSim, Vivado, Vitis, or Quartus.
• 3+ years of FPGA design experience with VHDL and/or Verilog, including FPGA soft CPU cores such as AMD MicroBlaze or Altera Nios II.
• Experience with 8051 assembly, high-speed interfaces including 1GE, PCIe, and DDRx, and hardware/software codesign in Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoCs.
• Experience in RF circuit modeling, analysis and design, DSP, high-speed digital design, signal integrity, clock domain crossing, DFM, and DFT.
• Coursework or direct experience with radar system design and analysis, radar signal processing, and radar simulation.
• Understanding of RF and microwave engineering principles, including transmission lines, matching networks, filter design, harmonic balance, nonlinear effects, noise figure, signal-to-noise analysis, RFI/EMI mitigation, and time- and frequency-domain analysis.
• Active US Government DoD Secret Security Clearance or higher.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with hardware, software, and product teams on embedded hardware products.
• Occasional domestic and international travel of up to 15% is part of the role.