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The Role: Sensus, a Xylem brand, seeks to hire a Firmware Engineer.

Essential Duties/Principal Responsibilities

• Motivated, curious, self-starting professional to contribute and grow as a part of our team
• Ability to work collaboratively within a team environment of engineers to meet exacting requirements with high quality standards.
• Develop firmware responsible for gas, water, and electricity metering in commercial and industrial applications.
• Develop firmware responsible for RF, optical, mag-coupled and tethered communications
• Integrate solid state metrology and/or sensors used within metering products.
• Collaborate with hardware, mechanical and product engineers to ensure high quality, factory-ready products that adhere to schedule, cost and performance requirements.
• Collaborate with other development and test teams (e.g. handheld tools, headend systems, analytics) to ensure products work flawlessly within Sensus solutions and with 3rd party offerings.
• Analyze released product lines for improvement opportunities to maximize product quality, extend product lifetime and lower product cost. Drive planning and implementation of solutions through to field deployment.
• Assist hardware engineering in the review of with microcontroller pin assignment, design calculations, analog and digital circuit design and PCB schematics/layouts.
• Assist quality assurance and marketing teams in investigating and analyzing defective product returned from customers
• Develop PC-based tools in (xUnit, Python, Ruby, C#) for demonstration, automation and analysis of metrology and product performance data in support of Manufacturing, Quality Assurance and CI (Continuous Integration).
• Develop documentation required for collaboration, sustainability and internal processes.
• Interface with third-party companies to enable integration of their technologies with the Sensus portfolio of products.
  

Minimum Qualifications: Education, Experience, Skills, Abilities, License/Certification:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
• At least 4 years of embedded OS and/or embedded systems development experience.
• Experience writing assembly language and C code for micro-controllers in resource-limited situations (ROM/RAM/MIPS).
• Experience in writing Prototype Test Plans (TP)
• In-depth understanding of fixed point arithmetic issues and implementation techniques.
• Experience with Version Control Systems such as GIT or SVN
• Analyzing code execution using a debugger.
• Experience with common test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and spectrum analyzers.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with utility metering products
• Experience tuning software for RF characteristics, power consumption and memory for optimal performance.
• Knowledge of concepts and algorithms for RF systems.
• Low power / microcontroller sleep states / battery operated devices
• Experience developing and debugging software on MSP430 or ARM Cortex-M3, M4 architectures
• Application of Test Driven Design (TDD)
• Experience in writing system specifications (SPEC), Product Requirement Documents (PRD)
• Experience with Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
  

Physical Demands

(The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• Regularly required to sit or stand, reach, bend and move about the facility
  

Work Environment

(The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• Office: Standard office equipment; work usually performed in an office setting free from any disagreeable elements.
• Standard weekly job hours: 40 hours
  

Xylem is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.