Highlights
You will work closely with hardware, software, and product teams to deliver reliable, high-performance firmware solutions that power and drive our newest relief-providing devices. Experience using debugging tools (programmer/debuggers, power supplies, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG, etc.).
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Washington, DC |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 50 to 99 employees |
| Year Founded | 2000 |
| Website | http://www.ecs-federal.com/ |
Description
Everforth ECS is seeking an Embedded Firmware Engineer to join the RPL team in Chantilly, VA.
We''re looking for an Embedded Firmware Engineer to design, develop, and maintain embedded software for our hardware products. You will work closely with hardware, software, and product teams to deliver reliable, high-performance firmware solutions that power and drive our newest relief-providing devices.
You Will
- Design, develop, and debug firmware for embedded systems and microcontrollers
- Collaborate with hardware engineers to define system architecture and hardware/firmware interfaces
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code in C and C++
- Develop and execute unit tests, integration tests, and system validation
- Optimize firmware for performance, memory usage, and power consumption
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in embedded systems and field deployments
- Contribute to code reviews and maintain thorough technical documentation
- Support bring-up and validation of new hardware platforms
- Occasional domestic and international travel (up to 15% of the time, several times a year) to support installations, testing and other project related activities.
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
- 3+ years of experience in embedded firmware development
- Strong proficiency in C/C++ programming
- Experience working with microcontrollers and embedded systems (bare-metal and RTOS)
- Familiarity with hardware interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, and USB
- Experience using debugging tools (programmer/debuggers, power supplies, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG, etc.)
- Understanding of memory management, interrupts, and real-time constraints
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics
- Effective communication and teamwork skills
- Willingness to learn and take direction from senior Engineers
- Ability to obtain and maintain a US Government DoD Security Clearance.
- 3+ years in electronic circuit analysis and design applications, such as:
- Altium or Siemens/Mentor Graphics PADS
- SPICE/PSPICE
- MATLAB
- Keysight Pathwave/Genesys/ADS, AWR Microwave Office or Ansys HFSS
- ModelSim, Vivado, Vitis or Quartus
- 3+ years of experience with FPGA designs, VHDL and/or Verilog.
- Experience with FPGA soft CPU cores similar to AMD Microblaze or Altera Nios II.
- Experience with 8051 assembly
- Experience with designing/debugging high speed interfaces (1GE, PCIe, and DDRx).
- Experience with hardware & software codesign in Zynq UltraScape+ RFSoCs.
- Experience in Radio Frequency (RF) circuit modeling, analysis and design and/or Digital Signal Processing (DSP).
- Experience with high-speed digital design, including signal integrity and clock domain crossing.
- Familiarity with Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for Test (DFT).
- Coursework or direct experience with radar systems, including:
- Radar system design and analysis
- Radar signal processing and simulation
- Understanding of basic RF and microwave engineering principles, including:
- Transmission lines and matching networks
- Filter design and analysis
- Harmonic balance and non-linear effects
- Cascaded noise figure and signal-to-noise analyses
- Radio Frequency/Electromagnetic Interference (RFI/EMI) effects and mitigation techniques
- Time- and frequency-domain relationships and analysis techniques
- Active US Government DoD Secret Security Clearance or higher.
About Company
ECS was founded in 2001 by experienced IT professionals with a commitment to quality processes, people and performance. Led by our Chairman, Roy Kapani, and an experienced executive leadership team, ECS provides our customers with solutions and services that support their critical needs and further mission objectives. This commitment has paved the way for expansive growth, year over year.
ECS gained market share in 2011 in the Department of Defense and Federal spaces through both organic and acquisition growth. In May, ECS completed its first strategic acquisition with the purchase of OAK Management, Inc., a leading provider of marine environmental services, ship systems engineering, maritime consulting and platform acquisition management. The OAK acquisition kicked off ECS’ intention to add tactical acquisitions as a part of its long term strategy to supplement and expand upon organic growth and to build enterprise value. ECS closed out 2011 with the acquisition of Paradigm Technologies, Inc. The Paradigm transaction added approximately 200 employees to ECS’ existing 900+ employees. Paradigm also added new Defense clients for ECS, including the Missile Defense Agency, the Navy’s Program Executive Officer for Integrated Warfare Systems, the United States Marine Corps, and the U.S. Marshals Service.
In 2012, ECS completed the acquisition of iLuMinA Solutions, Inc. iLuMinA brings large-scale Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software implementation and infrastructure design and development to ECS’ expanding capabilities.
ECS will continue to invest in corporate infrastructure and quality processes as we grow and enhance our ability to offer professional excellence to both our customers and our employees.