Senior Firmware Engineer

About Us Join AMETEK Power Instruments, an innovative leader in electronic instrumentation for the electric utility and process industries. We specialize in delivering top-tier products like fault recorders, annunciators, and turbine engine sensors that measure and monitor power generation, transmission, and end‑user assets. If you’re ready to make a real impact in the energy and manufacturing sectors, we invite you to bring your expertise and passion to our team.

Job Summary We are developing the next generation of our high‑accuracy revenue metering platform for generation, transmission, and industrial power measurement. We are seeking a hands‑on Senior Firmware Engineer to work shoulder‑to‑shoulder with our hardware design team through the full development cycle — from schematic review and board bring‑up to a shipping, field‑deployable product.

Key Responsibilities

• Hands‑on embedded Linux development: building and configuring the kernel, writing and debugging device drivers, and working with a board support package (BSP); experience with Yocto, Buildroot, or a comparable build system.
• Board bring‑up of new hardware in close partnership with hardware designers—powering up first articles, validating power rails, clocks, resets, and boot, and triaging early hardware/firmware issues.
• Low‑level lab debugging and probing: confident use of oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG/SWD debuggers, multimeters, signal generators, and bus decoders to root‑cause issues at the signal level.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands‑on design experience.
• Proven experience writing firmware applications in C/C++ for timing‑critical requirements.
• Designing and implementing low‑level serial interfaces and protocols—UART, SPI, I2C, and similar.
• In‑circuit and source‑level debugging with GDB and IDE‑based debug tools (e.g., Eclipse, VS Code).
• GCC/G++ toolchains and cross‑development workflows (Linux and Windows hosted).
• Understanding of embedded memory architecture: program flash, RAM, non‑volatile storage, and file systems.
• Ability to read and interpret electronic schematics.
• Solid grasp of signal processing fundamentals, including frequency‑domain analysis (FFT, DFT, Goertzel), digital filtering (FIR), sampling theory (up/down sampling), and time‑ and frequency‑domain measurement techniques.
• Designing, implementing, and testing features in an existing, long‑lived code base.

Desired Qualifications

• Use of AI development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or Grok.
• Digital signal processing and data acquisition applied to AC/DC metering devices.
• Metrology fundamentals—accuracy, precision, resolution, and calibration—and familiarity with revenue‑grade accuracy targets (e.g., 0.05% class).
• Experience implementing PQ recording features: waveform capture, high‑speed RMS, harmonic logging, and PQDIF export.
• Knowledge of metering and substation communication protocols: DLMS, IEC 60870‑5‑102, IEC 61850, DNP 3.0, and Modbus (RTU/TCP).
• Familiarity with metering and power quality standards across regions—ANSI C12.20, C12.1, C12.19, C12.18, C12.21, C12.22, IEC 62052/62053, IEC 61000‑4‑30, IEEE C37.90.1, and IEC 61000‑4 EMC immunity series.
• Experience with relay test sets and power system simulators (e.g., Omicron, Doble).
• Familiarity with electrical wiring and safe handling of high voltage (up to 600 V).

What’s In It For You

• Competitive compensation, holiday pay, and paid time off.
• Great benefits package that includes health, vision, and dental insurance.
• 401(k) with matching.
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs), health savings account (HSA) with AMETEK contribution, life insurance, disability insurance, and family medical leave.
• Paid parental leave.
• Employee referral program.
• Tuition reimbursement program.
• Employee assistance program.
• Exciting, fast‑paced environment where you could make a true impact.
• Opportunities for career advancement within our business unit and across all other AMETEK business entities.

Location

Coral Springs, FL. This is an in‑person role. Some travel may be required.

Compensation

• Employee Type: Salaried
• Currency: USD
• Salary Minimum: 120,000
• Salary Maximum: 150,000
• Incentive: No
• Disclaimer: Where a specific pay range is noted, it is a good faith estimate at the time of this posting. The actual salary offered will be based on experience, skills, qualifications, market, and geographic location.

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