Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Objectives: Senior Embedded Software Engineer Job Description

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The people at Industrial Scientific are making a difference. We believe that great people working with great tools in a supportive environment will deliver better products and services and do their best work for our customers. Our leaders understand the critical elements of breakthrough performance: bringing out the best in people; creating a climate of trust, openness and high performance; fostering candor and initiative; and treating people fairly and with dignity. Industrial Scientific provides the environment, leadership, and support that enable employees to exceed their career expectations.

Industrial Scientific’s product development team includes skilled engineers, designers and technicians in the disciplines of electrical, mechanical, and firmware engineering. Third-party design partners are used (both locally and abroad) to augment our in-house team or to provide specific expertise. For the most part, we build what we design – often in our modern manufacturing factory right here in Western Pennsylvania.

We design and develop a wide variety of world-class gas detection instruments, sensors, accessories, and infrastructure for worker connectivity and remote management. Our designs include the latest mixed-signal embedded computing technology, mechanical packaging, miniaturization, and compelling user interfaces. We partner with a dedicated in-house application software team to provide feature-rich web-based applications that help our customers keep their workers safe.

This Senior Embedded Software Engineer position provides technical leadership for firmware development throughout the New Product Development lifecycle for Industrial Scientific gas detection products. The role is intended for an experienced engineer who owns subsystem firmware architecture, drives complex embedded software design and implementation, ensures strong requirements traceability, and delivers highly reliable, scalable firmware for safety-critical applications.

This position leads firmware design activities from concept through production and may also support Enhancement & Sustaining projects for ISC legacy products. The Senior Engineer works independently with minimal oversight, collaborates closely with electrical, mechanical, quality assurance, manufacturing, product management, and external development teams, and makes informed technical tradeoffs that balance delivery, quality, cost, maintainability, and customer impact.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities: The duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Own firmware architecture for subsystems, including module partitioning, interfaces, and data and control flows
• Define firmware requirements and maintain strong traceability to system requirements, design outputs, and test cases
• Design, develop, and lead implementation of complex drivers, middleware, and real-time embedded systems with reliability, scalability, and maintainability in mind
• Define and enforce firmware design patterns, coding standards, code review practices, and technical decision-making approaches across projects
• Test firmware and hardware integration independently, debug integration issues, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful product outcomes
• Drive root cause analysis and closure of complex system issues involving timing, concurrency, resource constraints, reliability, and performance
• Optimize system performance, power consumption, memory usage, and boot time based on product and customer requirements
• Develop and improve firmware development processes, including CI/CD practices, code quality metrics, static analysis, automated testing, and test coverage
• Mentor engineers, provide technical direction across multiple projects, and lead small initiatives within defined scope
• Communicate architecture, risks, tradeoffs, and technical recommendations clearly across roles, functions, and project teams

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science/BE/B. Tech degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited college or university
• Senior-level experience(minimum 8 years) developing embedded firmware for real-time, resource-constrained, or safety-critical systems
• Dem…