The Next Level of Fire & Life Safety Leadership
With more than two centuries of combined history, brands like Kidde, Kidde Commercial, Edwards, GST, Badger and Aritech have been leading the way in protecting people and property around the world. Now, we’re taking that leadership to the next level. Kidde Global Solutions brings together the most trusted and iconic brands in safety, building upon our shared experience and expertise to address the needs and challenges of more customers in more places. With an unmatched portfolio of solutions and services, and a commitment to constant innovation we’re elevating the standards for an entire industry – and establishing the next level of fire and life safety leadership.
At Kidde Global Solutions, you’re joining a global technology leader in fire and life safety solutions and our employees are the heart of it all. With industry-defining brands in life safety and security, you’ll be part of a legacy of leadership working with cutting-edge technologies that protect lives and property worldwide. As a leading fire safety brand, our mission is to provide solutions that protect people and property from the effects of fire and related hazards. We’re committed to expanding our impact and providing dynamic opportunities for growth within our team. You’ll be part of a company that prioritizes quality, integrity, collaboration, and customer care, with the resources, training, and incentives to ensure your success every step of the way.
Basic Function/General Scope:
The Embedded Design Engineer will utilize strong design skills and will operate within multidisciplinary teams to develop and introduce new product designs. In this role you will design, implement and maintain Fire Alarm Panels from design to production.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Translate marketing, customer and industry standards requirements into product design. Define and provide different embedded firmware alternatives for specified requirements in order to select the best solution.
- Design, implement and maintain Fire Alarm Panels from specification through production. Emphasis is on embedded firmware design, project completion, engineering documentation, and product agency certification.
- Design, develop, and integrate new firmware features as assigned by the Firmware or Project Lead.
- Define and develop complete conceptual, architectural, detailed design and test and verification plans: from concept and design to production.
- Define and develop embedded firmware platforms, OS abstraction layers and life safety systems and components applications.
- Proto-type testing, verification testing, system testing and quality assurance.
- Debug and solve software defects from testing or field to ensure software stable and reliable.
- Documentation as High Level Design, Detailed Design, Interface Specification, Test Report, Release Notes Document, etc.
- Define and execute engineering design testing, reliability and verification.
- Perform the necessary design control documentation as per our engineering design control system.
- Interface, work and support local and remote engineering teams (i.e. Mechanical Engineering, Firmware Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering etc.) on projects requirements and development.
- Ability to operate in highly motivated, high impact multi-functional team environment.
Qualifications & Competency:
- Electronics/Communication/Computer science/or related with bachelor degree or above.
- Good level of English, both spoken and written.
- 5 or more years of experience in embedded software design.
- Hand-on experience on embedded system firmware and software development.
- Proficiency in C language, knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
- Experience in Object Oriented programming (C++) for embedded systems.
- Experience in embedded software design, specifically for application running on Embedded Linux
- Familiar with ARM embedded CPU.
- Knowledge and experience with many different processors, as well as HW peripherals (e.g. PWM, ADC, DAC, I2C, SPI, UART, etc.).
- Knowledge on Python for automated tests or other tasks, is a plus.
- Experience with Fire Products/Market, Sensor Engineering, Audio / Lighting Engineering, Wireless, and Fire Alarm Panels and Systems, is a plus.
- Experience in Qt framework and UI design, is a plus.
- Used to work with standard Software Quality Assurance tools (i.e. Doors, Subversion, Git, HPQC, JIRA/Confluence, etc.) and processes (i.e. Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Code Review, etc.).
- High capability and creativity for analysis and problem solving.
- Highly self-motivated lead engineer with a results oriented, and proven track record.
World Leaders in Fire and Life Safety
Kidde Global Solutions is a world leader in fire & life safety solutions tailored for complex commercial facilities to homes. Through iconic, industry-defining brands including Kidde, Kidde Commercial, Edwards, GST, Badger, Gloria and Aritech, we provide residential and commercial customers with advanced solutions and services to protect people and property in a wide range of applications, all around the globe.
