Software Engineer, Associate

MKS Instruments•Rochester, NY

6d•$75,000 - $90,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Software Engineer, Associate in the Embedded Firmware Group in Power Solution, you will work with other talented engineers to design embedded firmware for semiconductors manufacturing equipment—DC/RF power delivery system. You help advance the manufacturing technology by increasing power delivery efficiency and precision. We are looking for a junior level engineer who will learn and grow with the team. You Will Make an Impact By: Develops software libraries/applications/drivers/modules using embedded programming languages including, but not limited to, C/C++, Python, Matlab, VHDL Analyzes system software verification standards and procedures Analyzes requirements, designs, implements, documents, and tests against customer, marketing, and engineering requests Follows software and business processes to ensure high level quality and robustness of deliverables Develop and execute test plans on embedded firmware features in RF/DC power system; collect and analyze data from firmware debug probes and external instrument; Correlate abnormalities in the data to the firmware bugs Contributes meaningfully within the software team to improve on-time delivery and frequency of new releases Produces maintainable design documents providing technical information about designs to ease rapid future development Collaborates and supports other functional teams, like system, reliability, manufacturing, field application engineers to troubleshoot, guide, support, and test our products Travel Requirements: Average 5% of travel per year. Travel is rare

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related degree
0 to 1+ years of related experience with embedded object-oriented software development (applicable co-ops, internships may count) Ideally with design pattern, unit tests, embedded system architecture in C/C++ and python
You bring strong collaboration and communication skills, paired with sharp analytical thinking and a talent for creative problem-solving
Experience in MS Office suite and instant messaging to help engineering activities

Nice To Haves

Work experience in the industrial protocols—EtherCAT, DeviceNet, Fieldbus
Work experience or interests in developing embedded Linux user/kernel applications/drivers, commercial/open-source RTOS user/kernel applications/drivers, and device tree
Work experience or interests in developing multi-threaded/multi-task systems, as well as profiling, benchmarking, tracing system bottlenecks
Work experience in digital signal processing, control theory, power amplifier, and power delivery theory
Interests in implementing control theories in discrete time domain on an embedded system
Interests in Radio Frequency characteristics and transmission theories

Responsibilities

Develops software libraries/applications/drivers/modules using embedded programming languages including, but not limited to, C/C++, Python, Matlab, VHDL
Analyzes system software verification standards and procedures
Analyzes requirements, designs, implements, documents, and tests against customer, marketing, and engineering requests
Follows software and business processes to ensure high level quality and robustness of deliverables
Develop and execute test plans on embedded firmware features in RF/DC power system; collect and analyze data from firmware debug probes and external instrument; Correlate abnormalities in the data to the firmware bugs
Contributes meaningfully within the software team to improve on-time delivery and frequency of new releases
Produces maintainable design documents providing technical information about designs to ease rapid future development
Collaborates and supports other functional teams, like system, reliability, manufacturing, field application engineers to troubleshoot, guide, support, and test our products