Firmware Engineer - Continuing Engineering

Description

Whisker is the maker of Litter-Robot, Feeder-Robot, and Litterbox.com. At Whisker, we believe pet parenthood can always get better.

As leading innovators in pet tech and refined pet accessories, we work tirelessly to solve problems and deliver smarter insights for pet parents while enriching the lives of pets. Whether it’s a self-cleaning litter box that automates scooping, an automatic feeder that helps pets develop healthier eating habits, or a modern cat tree that delights both humans and felines, we strive to deliver better solutions for consumers while transforming pet care along the way. To us, having a pet is the best thing ever. At Whisker, life together just keeps getting better.

Whisker is based in Auburn Hills, Michigan and Juneau, Wisconsin with 500+ passionate team members.

What You’ll Do:

The Firmware Engineer is responsible for the firmware of Whisker’s existing product line.  This includes continuous improvement of the products’ quality, functionality, and customer experience by analyzing issues, defining changes, verification and validation of the changes, and leading the implementation.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

This list of duties and responsibilities is not all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities as deemed necessary.

• Architects and implements technical solutions on embedded systems to support IoT smart pet products.
• Works closely with AWS cloud engineering team on solutions for data management.
• Manages code release process for embedded team.
• Conducts code reviews across multiple teams.
• Conducts integration and system-level testing.
• Programs, solves, and debugs with detailed knowledge in machine control and multi-threaded / multi-core programming environments, software applications, and device layering programs.
• Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development issues.
• Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
• Stays up to date with state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks and participating in professional organizations.
• Provide support to partners such as component suppliers, contract and internal manufacturers, sourcing, supply chain, quality, packaging, product management, and customer experience.
• Will perform additional responsibilities when required. 

Requirements

What You’ll Bring:

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• 3+ years of Firmware/Embedded Systems Experience 
• Solid understanding of:
  • Embedded C, C++, Bare Metal, RTOS and/or Embedded Linux
  • Low-level hardware and discrete sensors
  • Digital and analog components and circuits
  • Motor control
  • PWM, UART, I2C, SPI, SDIO, MIPI, BLE, and WiFi
  • Bootloader usage and design
  • JTAG / ICE 
• Experience writing firmware for various MCUs (STMicro and Espressif desired)
• Experience with source control tools (i.e. BitBucket)
• Experience with power supplies, meters, oscilloscopes, signal generators, etc.
• Experience with defining and running product testing
• Experience with successfully taking products to market
• Comfortable with office pets (cats, dogs)
• Maintains confidentiality of proprietary information
• Ability to maintain a professional atmosphere in a fast-paced environment with numerous interactions and interruptions
• A high degree of initiative, self-motivation, and ability to motivate others
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with Team Members and colleagues
• Ability to travel up to 10% to suppliers and manufacturing locations domestically and internationally

Not Required but Nice to Have:

• Develop electronic subsystems and board-level designs
• Experience in robotics and/or IoT smart home solutions 
• Basic understanding of mechanical systems
• Experience with PIC MCUs, Bluetooth and WiFi chips, and respective development systems
• Experience with SOC modules

Benefits & Purrks: 

Join a tenacious, inventive company that empowers team members to chart their own path, lead by grounding decisions in the “why”, and has a strong sense of empathy and openness to new perspectives. Be a part of exciting growth, work with incredible people, and create tomorrow’s pet products—plus a whole lot of extras. You