Embedded Software Development Engineer at Emerson Electric Co in Marshalltown, Iowa

Job Description:

At Emerson, we are innovators and problem-solvers, focused on a common purpose: leaving our world in a better place than we found it. Each and every day, our foundational values—integrity, safety and quality, supporting our people, customer focus, continuous improvement, collaboration and innovation—inform every decision we make and empower our employees to keep reaching higher. As a global technology and engineering leader, we provide groundbreaking solutions for customers in industrial, commercial, and residential markets. Our Emerson Automation Solutions business helps process, hybrid, and discrete manufacturers maximize production and protect personnel and the environment while optimizing their energy and operating costs. Our Emerson Commercial & Residential Solutions business helps ensure human comfort and health, protect food quality and safety, advance energy efficiency and create sustainable infrastructure.

Emerson, a Fortune 500 company with $15.3 billion in sales and 200 manufacturing locations worldwide, is committed to helping employees grow and thrive throughout their careers.
Whether you’re an established professional looking for a career change, an undergraduate student exploring options or a recent MBA graduate, you’ll find a variety of opportunities at Emerson. Join our team and start your journey today.

As a Firmware Engineer working in the new product development group you will be responsible for a broad range of engineering tasks.  Our mission is to deliver to the market highly reliable products for which Fisher is well known and our customers demand.   In support of that mission you will be responsible for rapid familiarization with legacy embedded code, designing new features and analyzing and resolving identified field issues.  This role requires a well-rounded skillset with the ability to work within an already defined architecture and the ability to design new architectures.  You will be expected to document your work thoroughly and support our commitment to software quality by adhering to company best practices for software development.  Design documentation using unambiguous tools such as UML are expected.  Your code will be subjected to code reviews and will be required to conform to company coding standards.  Unit testing and static analysis are also expected. Your development tasks will span embedded code, verification test code, execution of test code, and various supporting PC applications.If you like to be continually challenged by working with new and unfamiliar hardware and tools we encourage you to apply. AS A FIRWARE ENGINEER, YOU WILL: 

• Interface with marketing and manufacturing in helping define requirements
• Analyze, design, and implement solutions to requirements
• Propose improvements to identified software inefficiencies and deficiencies
• Utilize scopes, meters, power sources etc. as necessary to complete the task
• Plan and architect a testing environment using existing tool chain for a given product
• Participate in sprint planning sessions.
• Identifies test cases necessary for verifying firmware requirements.
• Implements or manages the implementation of test cases
• Manage code changes using version control tools.
• Participate in code reviews.
• Execute or manage the execution of test cases
• Log defects in project defined defect tracking tool
• Read and follow relevant project engineering practice and engineering standards documents.

REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

• Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering with a focus on programming.
• or Associates degree or Relevant certifications in lieu of degree with 5 yrs of relevant work experience 
• Legal authorization to work in the United States.

• Prior embedded development experience
• Knowledge and experience with 8, 16, and 32 bit Micro-controllers
• Knowledge and experience with agile development methodologies
• Knowledge and experience with distributed version control such as (GIT, Mercurial)
• Expert programming skills with C / C++ compilers and linkers
• Knowledge and experience with C# and Microsoft Visual Studio
• Knowledge or ability to learn requirements management database tools such as (Jama)
• Familiarity with scripting languages such as Batch
• Familiarity with command line application interfaces and operation.
• Ability to participate in a team environment
• Must have a commitment to quality
• A mechanical background or mechanical aptitude is helpful
• Methodical problem-solving skills are needed
• Be able comprehend and adapt solutions to existing code structures

Software Development