Senior Embedded Engineer

Role Description

This is a full-time Senior Embedded Engineer role on-site work in Schenectady, NY. The Senior Embedded Software Engineer is a role for experienced professionals seeking to advance Lynkwell’s solutions to energy management for the world’s most pressing needs, including fleet vehicle electrification and public EV charging networks. Within this role, candidates receive guidance from senior engineers on architecture, design, and process goals. Candidates will work alongside other cross-functional engineers on 1- to 6-month development efforts. They will also take an active role in continuous improvement and serve as mentors to new hires.

Compensation: $95,000-120,000 DOE plus benefits

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with hardware engineering team to develop EV charging infrastructure hardware and software
• Integrate embedded peripherals with Linux/openWRT host
• Utilize wireless and wired communication protocols (TCP/IP, Ethernet, Bluetooth, 802.11)
• Write reliable Python code for embedded systems
• Collaborate across diverse teams inside and outside of engineering
• Create test harnesses or apparatuses in support of hardware/firmware validation, such as for UL 1998 firmware testing
• Serve as a mentor to less experienced team members
• Speak about problems and solutions at various levels of detail, from deep dive conversations to architecture/design-level discussions
• A positive attitude and good professional demeanor
• Desire to work in-person within a hardware manufacturing facility near Schenectady, NY
• Good task management skills
• Good communication skills with non-engineering stakeholders, such as with customer support, product management, marketing, or sales groups
• General electrical safety knowledge

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering, mathematics, or computer science from an accredited institution
• 6 to 8 years of industry experience within a cross-disciplinary team
• Industry experience within an embedded software or firmware context
• Common continuous improvement strategies
• Scrum, Kanban, and the full SDLC
• Object-oriented application development within one or all of the following programming languages: C, C++, Python
• Scripting language experience within Linux operating systems, such as bash
• Embedded software development involving one or more of the following technologies: I2C, SPI, MQTT, Cellular Modems, UART, embedded microcontrollers, embedded Linux, bare-metal development