Job Type
Full-time
Description
Position Overview
Under the direction of the Engineering Manager – KT Innovation, the Senior Embedded Software Engineer will conduct critical and complex engineering research and development projects to support Key Technology (KT) and New Product Development (NPD) of Fitness Equipment. The Senior Embedded Software Engineer will perform advanced development, innovation, and critical problem solving to enhance Johnson Health Tech’s product portfolio. This position requires a highly creative and flexible individual who can stretch to support the specific needs of the development situation and manufacturing environment. The successful candidate will be willing to move fast, fail early, iterate, and consistently deliver. They are never married to ideas, have a penchant for creating new IP and IP workarounds, and will help Johnson Health Tech continue to be a leader in the fitness space. This is a non-supervisory position.
Responsibilities
- Understand and integrate potential new technologies, features, modalities/ergonomics into Johnson products
- Create proof-of-concepts (PoC) and partner with the Product Management team for review and refinement
- Evaluate and test for viability and risk mitigation
- Feed new product development by successfully and smoothly transitioning PoC’s to NPD engineering teams based on Asia sourcing and manufacturing
- Develop and document design and specifications
- Strive to move beyond the status quo with a positive, problem-solving, and can-do approach. Know which battles to win and those to compromise on
- Create new intellectual property and intellectual property workarounds
- Other projects as assigned
Requirements
Qualifications
Education:
- 4-year degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering
- Well-qualified candidates will possess an advanced degree
Experience:
- 8+ years of object-oriented programming in a language such as C++, C# or Java
- 8+ years of bare-metal or RTOS programming in C or C++
- Proficient in scripting languages such as Python or Javascript
- Experience reading electronic schematics and component datasheets
- Proficient in writing technical documentation
- Well-qualified candidates will possess engineering experience with fitness products and strong fitness market knowledge
Other Requirements:
- Ability and willingness to travel internationally, approximately 1-2 trips to Asia annually
- Strong and creative problem-solving skills
- Ability to work well with numerous diverse groups and individuals
- Ability and desire to mentor less experienced team members
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Skills
- Strong software engineering and general problem-solving skills
- Ability to adapt to new and changing technology
- Proven track record of on time completion of tasks
- Works well in a team environment
- Able to multitask
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with diverse groups of co-workers, customers and vendors
- Ability to work with overseas development groups
- Understand threading, synchronization and inter-process communications
- Understand network communication such as TCP, UDP and RESTful API’s
- Binary communication implementation such as RS232/RS485/CAN/USB/SPI/I2C
- Linux application development, driver development and OS building
Benefits: We offer an excellent compensation package and team-oriented work environment with growth opportunities. Some of our outstanding benefits include:
- Health & Dental Insurance
- Company paid Life Insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid Time Off benefits
- Product discounts
- Wellness programs
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