Firmware Engineering Manager

Company Overview

​At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. Our critical communications, video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the coordination that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department OverviewThe Avigilon Alta (formerly Openpath) hardware product group seeks a Firmware Engineering Manager to drive the design, development, and deployment of embedded firmware on new and existing products. This role requires strong technical and leadership skills to build, scale, and innovatively develop our industry-leading platform for access control and office automation. Strong analytical and software skills are essential, with a particular focus on experience in power-constrained, real-time environments.
Job Description

Our Firmware Engineering team is looking for an exceptional manager with a passion for innovation, technology, and quality. The team builds and maintains the firmware that powers our ever-expanding lineup of physical security devices, including card/NFC and mobile/BLE readers, video devices, and I/O expansion boards, all of which must seamlessly support the business and its growing customer base. This position requires significant cross-team communication and cooperation with customer support, QA, product management, and software and hardware development groups. The ideal candidate will be passionate about pragmatic problem-solving and automation for improving both product quality as well as the developer experience.

What you'll be doing:

• Managing a team of 5+ individuals providing on-going employee coaching, mentoring, development, and team building

• Designing and developing highly reliable software for our internally-designed embedded systems as well as hardware interface services in an embedded environment

• Setting team priorities that align with organizational goals and objectives

• Making data-driven decisions to optimize for power consumption and performance

• Board bring up, writing device drivers, and R&D on the latest embedded technologies

• Writing clean and testable C code for a multi-processor product

• Iterating on existing RF software drivers and business logic to improve performance and reliability

• Reading schematics and collaborating with hardware engineers

• Work closely with hardware development for all NPI activities, including initial bring up, test, certification, and manufacturing

• Taking ownership of your code, including verification testing and writing documentation

• Work with customer support and other software teams to diagnose and resolve customer issues as needed

• Work with QA team to design, develop and execute test scripts for life cycle, unit and regression testing

• Work cross-functionally with other engineering and product leadership across mobile app, cloud software, and hardware teams to guide the development of new products and the evolution of the organization’s team structures and development processes

• Leading embedded architecture and processor decisions to optimize for performance and reliability of our products

Requirements:

• Minimum of 2+ years of management experience leading an engineering team

• Experience leading Agile teams

• Excellent programming skills in an embedded context, using C or C++

• Experience working on Nordic, ATTiny, or SAMD microcontrollers

• Experience with both bare-metal and RTOS based firmware development

• Strong background working on firmware at scale, servicing updates through OTA

• Experience developing with BLE, NFC, and/or other wireless technologies

• Results-oriented, dependable, and accountable

• Strong ability to analyze existing code and debug

• Strong understanding of Git version control

• Comfortable reading Python, Makefile, and Shell scripts

• Bachelor's Degree

Target Base Salary Range: $98,100 - $196,200 USD

Consistent with Motorola Solutions values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.

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Basic Requirements

• 4+ years experience in embedded or firmware development using C or C++
• 1+ years of experience leading a team of engineers
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. indefinitely is required. Employer work permit sponsorship is not available for this position.

Travel RequirementsUnder 25%
Relocation ProvidedNone
Position TypeExperienced
Referral Payment PlanNo

Our U.S. Benefits include:

• Incentive Bonus Plans
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits
• 401K with Company Match
• 10 Paid Holidays
• Generous Paid Time Off Packages
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Paid Parental & Family Leave
• and more!

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic. 

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience for candidates with disabilities, or other physical or mental health conditions. To request an accommodation, please email [email protected].