Talon is a small business staffing and engineering firm providing innovative, end-to-end, rapid turn solutions to our government and commercial clients. Founded in 2019, Talon employs over 150 Aerospace and Defense engineers and other support staff to solve problems for a variety of applications to include aircraft, ballistics, cybersecurity, motorsports, armor development, biological systems, missiles, and warheads. Talon has an office in Tucson, AZ that is providing staffing solutions, technical services support, and manufacturing to Fortune 500 companies.

Position Role Type: Contract Labor

Location: East Syracuse, NY

Firmware Engineer Engineer Job Description:

The Firmware Engineer Engineer is responsible for developing and installing industry-specific software programs and hardware systems. The Firmware Engineer will develop low-level firmware/software for microcontrollers, create reusable device drivers, integrate system-level features and architect changes to support an ever-growing codebase. In this role you will debug and troubleshoot issues that span the electrical, firmware, and software boundaries, and must be able to review schematics with the electrical engineering team.

Primary Qualifications:

• Generate firmware requirements based on the system architecture
• Generate firmware documentation that describes the firmware architecture
• Must have experience in Audio, Video-based firmware systems.
• Must have experience in Audio, Video-based firmware systems.
• 7+ years' experience in hands-on development of RTOS or Linux based embedded systems
• Languages: C, C++, Assembly
• Experience with Ambarella SoC/SDK is highly desirable
• Design HDL (VHDL/Verilog/System Verilog) based digital logic circuits that are structured and readable
• Build test benches to verify/test the HDL based design
• Generate constraints for target device (FPGA/SoC/CPLD)
• Create scripts to automate build, integration, and test activities.
• Verify target device functionality in laboratory environment (multimeters, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers)

Must Have Qualifications:

• BS or MS in CS/CE/EE or equivalent industry experience
• Strong C coding ability for embedded systems
• Experience integrating microcontrollers with analog and digital sensors
• Experience developing firmware in bare-metal or RTOS environments
• Solid understanding and application of coding best practices, board bring up and debugging
• Some familiarity with common bus protocols such as USB, SPI, I2C, CAN, RS232, RS485, Ethernet, etc.
• U.S. Persons status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data
• Experience with one or more microcontroller cores (ARM, AVR, MSP430, PIC, etc.)
• Debugging skills with JTAG, SWD, Oscilloscopes, and Logic analyzers
• Have a bias for action. If you see a problem, you want to solve and fix it
• Be naturally curious about the technologies and tools you use
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract

Compensation:

• Offering a competitive hourly wage
• Flexible work schedule
• Full-time schedules available
• Anticipate 12 month assignment
• 401K, 6% match

Talon is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.