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Firmware Engineer
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What they do
A Firmware Engineer develops the programmable content in electronic hardware devices. Works for a hardware company developing software for each hardware platform. Alters, organizes and models the functionality of software for a variety of industries, including the automotive, health care and consumer electronics industries.
$101,555 / year median in Minnesota
-4% projected decline
Job Description
Job Description What You Will Do:
- Partner with stakeholders, product teams, and security teams to define secure system requirements for embedded firmware, IoT edge devices, gateways, and backend-connected components.
- Design, develop, and test secure firmware and IoT software using secure-by-design principles, including authentication, authorization, secure communications, encryption, logging, and secure update mechanisms.
- Implement hardware security controls including secure elements, TPMs, hardware root of trust, and
JTAG/SWD
lockdown.- Apply memory safety practices and compiler hardening techniques to mitigate common C/C++ vulnerabilities.
- Develop secure device provisioning workflows including key injection, certificate enrollment, and device identity lifecycle management.
- Integrate secure cloud to device communication patterns such as mutual TLS, token based authentication, certificate rotation, and secure onboarding using cloud to device security.
- Lead vulnerability triage, root-cause analysis, remediation planning, patch development, verification, and release coordination for embedded and IoT software components.
- Perform and support threat modeling, secure code reviews, static and dynamic analysis, dependency scanning, and security testing throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Participate in embedded incident response, coordinated disclosure, and rapid hotfix development for fielded devices.
- Design and implement secure OTA update pipelines including signing, encryption, rollback protection, A/B partitioning, and update integrity validation using secure OTA lifecycle best practices.
- Integrate SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, and firmware specific security checks into CI/CD pipelines using secure CI/CD pipelines principles.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including hardware, software, product management, quality, regulatory, and external partners, to deliver secure connected products.
- Stay current with cybersecurity standards, secure development practices, emerging vulnerabilities, tools, and techniques relevant to embedded systems and industrial IoT environments.
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https://insightglobal.com/workforce-privacy-policy/. Skills and Requirements- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a similar technical degree.
- 5 or more years' experience in software or firmware development in a fast-moving product development environment.
- 3 or more years working in C or C++ for embedded firmware development.
- Experience applying secure software development practices, including secure coding, code review, vulnerability remediation, and security defect management.
- Experience with embedded RTOS or bare-metal development and security considerations for constrained devices.
- Experience with serial communication protocols, such as UART, SPI, and I2C, and secure communication concepts for connected systems.
- Experience with ARM-based microcontrollers, such as Microchip, NXP, Silicon Labs, or STMicroelectronics.
- Experience with vulnerability management processes, CVE analysis, SBOM usage, dependency scanning, penetration test findings, and remediation verification.
- Experience with cybersecurity frameworks or secure development standards such as
NIST SSDF, IEC 62443, ISO
27001, OWASP, or secure product lifecycle practices.- Experience supporting embedded firmware platforms, board support package development, secure boot, secure storage, cryptographic services, or firmware update mechanisms.
- Experience in one or more of the following areas: bootloaders, embedded file systems, Linux, CAN Bus, Modbus RTU, Modbus TCP, network security, device identity, or certificate management.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies and integrating security activities into sprint planning, backlog management, release readiness, and defect triage.
- Initiative and ability to work independently and as a member of a multi-disciplinary team while managing multiple security, development, or remediation priorities.
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to clearly explain technical security risks, remediation plans, and release impacts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.