Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer

Location: Chantilly, Virginia, United States. Occasional domestic and international travel of up to 15% is required. The position is contingent upon contract award.

Salary: $90,000–$150,000 annually, commensurate with experience.

Company

hirify.global develops hardware products and relief-providing devices through its engineering and technical disciplines organization.

What you will do

• Design, develop, debug, and maintain firmware for embedded systems and microcontrollers.
• Collaborate with hardware engineers to define system architecture and hardware/firmware interfaces.
• Develop unit tests, integration tests, and system validation activities.
• Optimize firmware for performance, memory usage, and power consumption.
• Troubleshoot embedded systems and field deployments, support hardware bring-up, and validate new hardware platforms.
• Participate in code reviews and maintain technical documentation.

Requirements

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

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position within the Engineering & Technical Disciplines organization.
• Requires occasional domestic and international travel, up to 15% of the time and several times per year, for installations, testing, and related project activities.
• Employment is contingent upon contract award.