Job Description

*This role requires working on-site at company headquarters in Ellisville, Mississippi.

Job Description:

Howard Medical, a division of Howard Technology Solution, is seeking to fill the position of an experienced Embedded Systems Engineer in our Research and Development group. This is a full time, permanent position.

Principal activities include:

• Develop firmware for microcontroller-based electronic devices, including analog and digital I/O, motor controllers, board-to-board communications, network communications, and USB.
• Work within multidisciplinary team to develop software design goals.
• Generate project resource requirements and development schedule.
• Create documentation and specifications.
• Select operating systems, programming languages, and development tools.
• Assist in selection of microcontrollers and other board level hardware.
• Write test plans and direct activities of technicians to validate firmware.
• Work closely with hardware designers to ensure design goals are met.
• Coordinate efforts with development team working on associated Windows-based software.

Desired Skills and Expertise:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science.
• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with embedded systems prototyping, startup, debug, and testing.
• Project management and strong communication skills, both written and verbal, are desired.
• Knowledge of USB, TCP/IP, and communication busses like CAN and I²C, is required.
• Experience with MPLab IDE and/or the Cortex M4 platform is a plus.
• Experience in low-power design methods desired.
• Experience in either hardware design and/or Windows application development in C or .NET is a definite plus.
• Applicants should be self-starters and able to work independently

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