Sr. Firmware Engineer

Career Growth, Flexibility and Collaboration!

Entrust is dedicated to keeping the world moving safely by enabling trusted identities, payments, and data protection around the globe. Headquartered in Minnesota, we offer our colleagues the ability to work globally, in a flexible and collaborative environment. Our team makes an impact!!

The Company: Entrust relies on curious, dedicated and innovative individuals whom anticipate the future and provide solutions for a more connected, mobile and secure world. Entrust’s technologies and expertise help government agencies, enterprises and financial institutions in more than 150 countries serve and safeguard citizens, employees and consumers.

We Believe: Securing identities is most effective when we value all identities. We are committed to ensuring that, through diversity and inclusion, the many voices that make up our communities are heard. From unconscious bias training for managers to global affinity groups that create connections both within and across our enterprise, Entrust expects and encourages all individuals to accept and respect one another. And, of course, to be themselves.

The Senior Firmware Engineer will be a member of the product development team and will have an active role in the design and development of our Central Issuance Systems. Join a talented and dynamic team of engineers developing systems used to print and personalize credit cards, passports, driver’s licenses, national IDs and more. Work on cross-functional teams creating products that matter.

Responsibilities:

• Real-time embedded system software design for control systems in complex machines.
• Development of requirements, design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation of embedded software components or applications.
• Developing firmware for digital, analog, RF, power, and motion control systems.
• Participation in design and code reviews, hardware/software integration and development test.
• Understand and perform design trade-offs in a collaborative team environment.
• Provide schedule input and communicate status to various levels of management, peers and team members.
• Develop or contribute to development and maintenance of policies, practices and standards.
• Continuously improve work processes to enable team efficiencies.
• Resolve product issues through problem evaluation, code modifications, development testing, and coordination with product support team members.
• Create product enhancements from requirements with an emphasis on system-wide benefit and risk impact, iterative design, and thorough development testing.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent technical degree
• 5+ years’ experience with embedded software, hardware and/or firmware in a product development environment.
• 5+ years’ experience with C++ and/or C in an embedded development environment.
• Experience with embedded Linux, VxWorks or other embedded real time operating system
• Experience with unit and integration test methodologies.
• Must have unrestricted work authorization for US

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas
  • Motor control.
  • Smartcard technology.
  • Color printing technology.
  • RFID technology.
  • Security concepts including encryption, PKI and vulnerability mitigation.
  • Laser control.
  • Networking protocols
  • Scripting languages.
• Shows strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Displays a high level of initiative and ability to deliver results on technical projects.
• Exhibits good engineering judgment and decision making.
• Ability to work autonomously with cross functional team members
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to prepare

About Entrust

Our growing company relies on curious, dedicated and innovative colleagues to anticipate the future and provide solutions for a more connected, mobile and secure world. Entrust technologies and expertise help government agencies, enterprises and financial institutions in more than 150 countries serve and safeguard citizens, employees and consumers. Each year, our solutions secure billions of transactions — and every day, our technologies issue and manage more than 10 million secure identities. How do we do all of this? Together.

Join us. Together we’ll create solutions for a more connected, mobile and secure life.

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