Senior Firmware Engineer - BSP

Careers at Crestron•Plano, TX

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About The Position

At Crestron Electronics, Inc we build the technology that integrates technology. We are proud to be the largest and most recognized brand in automation and control solutions, and the premier technology partner for fortune 500 businesses globally. Our products’ are integrated into new high-tech commercial buildings’ to include some of the most exciting real estate throughout the world. Our clients include Google, Microsoft, Amazon, LinkedIn and many others. We are the leaders in the most exciting industry in the world! Our automation and control solutions for homes and buildings allow our clients to control entire environments with the push of a button, integrating systems such as Audio Visual, Lighting, Shading, Security, Building Management Systems and HVAC to provide greater comfort, convenience and security. Overview Crestron’s firmware team is looking for a talented and self-motivated engineer with strong embedded software development experience who can apply his/her expertise in our next generation systems. As a member of the firmware development team, your daily activities will include the full lifecycle of design, develop, modify, test, debug, and support new and existing embedded software for our embedded Linux and Android based products. The Senior Firmware Engineer for our Android/Linux BSP team will help in creating new control system, digital media and UC products. The ideal candidate should take part in the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) as well as handling field escalations with new and legacy products.

Requirements

BS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering is required.
5-8 years of proven experience developing and debugging embedded software for Linux/Android based products, C & C++ development environments.
Must have strong C, & C++ skills.
Must have experience with: Embedded Linux U-Boot/kernel development and customization, Linux Device Tree development, Android HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer)
Device driver development, optimizations, bug fixing, add new functionality (display, power management, wifi, GPIO, etc )
Debugging issues within the Android Framework and Linux Kernel.
Ability to independently read and understand electrical schematics
Working with source control tools such as Git, Gerrit, GitHub, and with Android command line tools such as adb and fastboot.
Debugging embedded systems where step debugging may not be available.

Nice To Haves

MS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering is preferred.
HW accelerated graphics processing (OpenGL ES) is beneficial.
Google’s AOSP architecture developing Android framework services, Android Native applications (JNI / NDK) or system applications in JAVA or Kotlin.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, implement, debug and maintain embedded real time applications for Android/Linux based products C, & C++ development environments.
Embedded Linux Kernel / OS development on ARM based platforms including configuration management, build, deployment, hardware interfaces, device driver, device tree
Work closely with other software and hardware engineers to solve design issues.
Responsible for design and implementation of new device features on multiple platforms
Responsible for the maintenance of current software including: feature enhancements, performance increases, troubleshooting, testing, and bug fixing.
Interfacing software applications with other devices and control systems
Providing technical documentation (test procedures, design specifications, etc.)
Other duties as assigned