Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kforce Inc is seeking a Staff Embedded Systems Engineer to serve as a senior-level individual contributor on a firmware team. This hands-on role focuses on building and deploying production-grade firmware for distributed energy and industrial systems, requiring ownership of complex challenges across embedded systems.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain firmware across embedded systems, including telemetry, control logic, cloud connectivity, and hardware abstraction
- Translate architecture into well-structured, production-ready code
- Lead technical design discussions, code reviews, and contribute to overall engineering standards
- Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance across the team
- Own end-to-end system integration across hardware, firmware, and cloud components
- Debug and optimize real-time embedded applications and communication interfaces
- Support deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting of devices in production environments
- Contribute to automation, testing, and documentation efforts
- Participate in on-call rotation for escalated technical issues
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Embedded Systems, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience developing embedded software or firmware in production environments
- Strong proficiency in Python, specifically for embedded or hardware-interfacing applications
- Experience working with Embedded Linux environments (Yocto or similar)
- Hands-on experience with embedded systems and firmware development
- Strong understanding of serial communication protocols (RS-485, Modbus, I2C, CAN, Ethernet)
- Experience with real-time systems, including multithreading, inter-process communication (IPC), and timing constraints
- Ability to read schematics and troubleshoot hardware integration issues
- Experience providing technical leadership or mentoring engineers
- Experience managing or deploying IoT devices at scale (OTA updates, remote diagnostics)
- Familiarity with cloud-connected devices (MQTT, AWS IoT, or similar)
- Background in energy systems, industrial systems, or hardware-connected environments
- Experience with containerized deployments on embedded systems (Docker or similar)
- Exposure to CI/CD practices in embedded or hardware-adjacent environments
- Knowledge of grid-connected systems, power systems, or related standards
Benefits
- Medical/dental/vision insurance
- HSA
- FSA
- 401(k)
- Life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees
- Paid time off for salaried personnel
- Paid sick leave for hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project
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