Senior Firmware Engineer (Embedded Linux)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Embedded Software Development

• Design, develop, test, and maintain embedded software for new and existing instrumentation products.
• Develop embedded Linux software across the stack, including BSPs, kernel configuration, device drivers, system services, device applications, and user interfaces.
• Develop and maintain software using C and C++.
• Develop and maintain device user interfaces using Qt.
• Support embedded Linux build environments using Yocto, Torizon, or similar technologies.
• Develop software interfaces between embedded applications, hardware, sensors, peripherals, and external systems.
• Participate in software architecture and platform decisions for future instrumentation products.
• Create maintainable, reusable, and testable embedded software components.
• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and technical discussions.

Hardware Integration and Board Bring-Up

• Partner with Electrical Engineering during board bring-up, hardware integration, and troubleshooting.
• Review electrical schematics and hardware interfaces to support software development and debugging.
• Develop and troubleshoot device drivers and hardware interfaces.
• Use oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, debuggers, and other laboratory tools to investigate hardware/software interaction issues.
• Support prototype hardware builds and early-stage system integration.
• Diagnose issues spanning embedded software, firmware, electrical hardware, and system-level behavior.

Device Connectivity and Security

• Develop and maintain secure device connectivity capabilities.
• Implement device security features such as secure boot, signed software images, access controls, and secure update mechanisms.
• Develop and support over-the-air software and firmware update capabilities.
• Support communication between instruments, data-management applications, cloud services, and other connected systems.
• Apply appropriate security practices throughout embedded software design and development.
• Participate in evaluation and implementation of platform security improvements.

Embedded Platform Development

• Contribute to technical decisions involving operating systems, processors, BSPs, build environments, deployment models, and update strategies.
• Help define reusable software and platform patterns for future instrumentation products.
• Evaluate new technologies, tools, and architectures for applicability to Neogen products.
• Support development of common software components and platform capabilities that can be reused across product families.
• Identify opportunities to improve software maintainability, reliability, security, and development efficiency.

Regulated Product Development

• Develop software within established product-development and design-control processes.
• Create and maintain software requirements, design documentation, technical specifications, and related engineering records.
• Support requirements traceability from software requirements through implementation, testing, and verification evidence.
• Participate in software verification and validation activities.
• Support product risk-management activities and technical risk assessments.
• Contribute technical documentation and evidence required for product-development phase gates, certifications, and regulatory submissions.
• Support software change control and configuration-management activities.

Sustaining Engineering and Product Support

• Support existing instrumentation products as needed throughout the product lifecycle.
• Investigate and resolve software, firmware, integration, and field issues.
• Perform root-cause analysis and develop corrective solutions.
• Support product updates, component changes, platform updates, and lifecycle-management initiatives.
• Partner with Service, Manufacturing, Quality, and other teams to troubleshoot complex product issues.
• Identify and implement software improvements that enhance product reliability, maintainability, and customer experience.

Technical Leadership and Collaboration

• Review software designs and code developed by internal engineers and external development partners.
• Provide technical feedback and guidance within areas of expertise.
• Help establish and promote embedded software engineering standards, patterns, and development practices.
• Collaborate effectively with development partners located across multiple regions and time zones.
• Communicate technical decisions, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to engineering teams and stakeholders.
• Mentor less-experienced engineers as appropriate.
• Perform other duties as assigned.