Senior Software Engineer (Low-Level/Firmware) at Garmin International in Tucson, Arizona

Job Description:

Garmin is a large, multinational provider of products that are a compelling part of our customers lives. In Tucson, these products are focused on improving the relationship between dogs and their owners. If you love hands on product development where you can see your work making a difference to the business right away, we have the job for you. We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer in our sunny Tucson, AZ Dog Product Center of Excellence. Tucson boosts over 280 days of sun a year with no snow all year round. A city of almost a million people, nestled in Southern Arizona and home to a major research university, Tucson offers all of the amenities of larger cities with lower cost of living, minimal travel times and easy access to mountains, hiking, biking and just about any other outdoor activity one could want. 

Our outdoor product development team is looking for someone to provide very low-level, embedded C software development for next generation outdoor products, including using SPI, I2C, UART and other interfaces on bare metal 8 and 32 bit processors.

Important Note: Due to the nature of our products, contact with dogs and products that have been in contact with dogs is common/ frequent

In this role you will be responsible for creating and executing designs for small sets of new functionality as part of a software project. Other essential functions include: 

• Creates and executes designs for small sets of new functionality as part of a software project


• May perform as a technical leader or Lead Software Engineer for derivative software project


• Collaborates and adds value through participation in peer code reviews, providing comments and suggestions 


• Provides reliable solutions to a variety of problems using sound problem solving techniques 


• Performs technical root cause analysis and outlines corrective action for given problems 


• Contributes to technical research on new technologies 


• Estimate level of effort, evaluate new options of similar technology, offer suggestions to improve processes, and provide comments on some electrical design aspects

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES:

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  Review product and/or application information including manuals and brochures for technical accuracy

  
  


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  Participate in product and/or application definition activities including feature analysis and system tradeoffs

  
  


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  Perform other duties as necessary

  
  

Qualified candidates possess a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering Aerospace Engineering, Math or Physics or a technical field (such as CIS or IT) relevant to the essential functions of this job description from a four-year college or university AND 5 years of current work experience. Other requirements include: 

• Demonstrates proficient knowledge and utilization of engineering tools necessary for successful performance of the essential functions of this job description 


• Must have a minimum of 5 years of current low-level embedded system experience (non-Linux)


• Experience performing maintenance activities for products already in production and troubleshoot issue reports, reproduce issues, perform technical root cause analysis and outline corrective action, and implement and test software solutions. 


• Proficient knowledge and utilization of engineering tools plus proficiency and experience necessary to develop moderately complex software in C, or other selected language are a must.  Mastery of relevant software engineering tools (configuration management systems, build processes, debuggers, emulators, simulators and logic analyzers) and proficient ability to capture and document software requirements are additional requirements.


• Demonstrates mastery of relevant software engineering tools (configuration management systems, build processes, debuggers, emulators, simulators and logic analyzer


• Preferred experience with


• USB/SPI/I2C


• BTLE


• RTOS


• 32 bit MCU's


• Wireless technologies and battery powered devices