Firmware Manager

6 months ago

Ottawa, Canada RBR Ltd. Full time

**About the role**:
RBR is seeking a highly motivated and experienced leader to manage our embedded firmware team. In this role, you'll have the unique opportunity to collaborate with a talented group of R&D experts across various disciplines, including firmware, electronics, mechanics, software, systems, sensor engineering, and oceanography. As the manager, you'll lead a small team of technical specialists, fostering a dedicated, communicative, and fast-paced work environment. You'll be a hands-on problem solver with the ability to independently take ownership, drive projects to completion, and deliver high-quality firmware solutions.

This position will be based out of our Ottawa head office.

**What you'll do**
- Implement and maintain best practices in development methodologies
- Establish and manage software versioning and revision control systems
- Analyze system design trade-offs to optimize for sometimes conflicting requirements
- Lead project execution from start to finish, ensuring adherence to deadlines
- Stay current on industry trends and advancements in firmware engineering technologies, processes, and disciplines
- Translate design specifications into functional systems, leading code reviews and participating in design discussions
- Contribute expertise to overall architecture and feature design
- Bridge the gap between hardware and software teams, transforming requirements into working designs
- Actively participate in the development of new products and projects
- Focus on the technical aspects of project management and execution
- Develop FW architecture for new system platforms
- Own the overall success of firmware projects and the technical performance of your team
- Provide clear direction, instruction, and guidance to your team
- Guide team development, evaluation, and goal setting
- Organize technical training and coach your team for career growth and advancement
- Manage work assignments and project allocation

**What you bring**
- 10+ years of experience in low-level C firmware development, encompassing:

- Development in both C++ and C
- Firmware Architecture
- Troubleshooting and debugging using JTAG tools, IDEs, logic analyzers, and oscilloscopes
- Knowledge of protocols such as RS232, SPI, I2C, I3C, USB, and Bluetooth
- Experience with low-power microcontrollers, STM32 and MSP430 preferred
- Experience in coding for pre-emptive RTOS for microcontrollers (e.g., FreeRTOS, Zephyr)
- Ability to read, understand, and annotate electronic schematics (digital, mixed signal, and analog)
- 4+ years of experience leading and managing high-performing engineering teams
- Adaptability to work in an interrupt-driven environment, managing multiple projects and shifting priorities
- A passion for helping others reach their full potential
- Extensive knowledge of best practices and tools in embedded development
- A creative problem solver with the drive to push boundaries, both self and team-oriented
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to flourish in both independent and collaborative settings

**Nice to haves**
- Experience developing high-performance, low-power battery-operated equipment
- Knowledge of signal-processing algorithms
- Experience developing calibrated scientific sensors
- Experience working in an Agile development process and familiarity with Jira/Confluence tools for documentation and task management

**About RBR**

Since 1973, RBR has been designing and manufacturing oceanographic instruments in Ottawa, Ontario to measure our blue planet. The effects of climate change are being seen from the ocean’s abyss to the polar ice caps and our sensors quantify this change to support better analysis, improved planning, and more effective mitigation strategies. Our instruments measure water parameters in some of the harshest environments on the planet They are mounted on underwater drones, dropped out of planes, and sent to the bottom of the ocean - sometimes for years at a time - all in an effort to get precise and accurate data to support climate research We have been fortunate to be able to partner with some of the world's leaders in the field of ocean science, like Fisheries and Oceans Canada, The Scripps Institution of Oceanography, The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, The Norwegian Polar Institute, and The British Antarctic Survey, just to name a few

At RBR, our people care about the environment, our community, their work, and - of course - each other We value curiosity, experimentation, and _doing the right thing_, and while we do some serious work to support world-changing science, we don’t take ourselves too seriously - we like to let our hair down and cut loose too

**Current perks at RBR**

20 days of vacation, plus a company-wide holiday shutdown and paid sick days
- Flexible working hours

Benefits from day 1 & RRSP contribution matching

Company-wide bonus program

Annual fitness reimbursement program

Greener commuting incentive program (bike-to-wo

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