Hardware at TRACTIAN
The Hardware team is responsible for designing and improving our IoT devices, dealing with every step of the development process, ranging from PCB design, firmware programming, case design, validations and certifications, always aiming to build trustworthy products that can be produced at a mass scale.
What you'll do
As a Senior Firmware Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and coding the Embedded Software inside our IoT devices. What does that entail? Building the new generations of firmware in our devices, improving application logics, coming up with new algorithms, and troubleshooting complex client problems is some of what you can expect. Your end goal is to help TRACTIAN provide online machine monitoring for every maintenance team in the world using fast and reliable IoT.
Responsibilities
- Design firmware architectures, develop new features, and build performance-intensive, memory constrained apps while maintaining a high-quality modern C/C++ code.
- Troubleshoot complex client problems, debug firmware based on collected data, understand the root cause of problems and come up with solutions.
- Develop firmware solutions based on hardware, power, and feature constraints of a new generation of devices.
- Design and implement test routines to validate both logical and firmware-related electrical functionalities of our IoT devices.
- Generate and maintain documentation for algorithms, logics, and code base.
- Follow guidelines and best practices for version control, repository management, and firmware releases.
Requirements
- 5+ years experience with embedded software development, RTOS such as freeRTOS, low-level frameworks such as CMSIS, ESPIDF, and STM HAL.
- Expert-level in modern C/C++ coding skills.
- Strong understanding of data structures and data theory.
- Comprehension of Object Oriented Programming concepts and practices.
- Expertise in embedded systems development.
- Knowledge of electronic concepts, topologies and components.
- Ability to read and understand advanced technical documentation and data.
Bonus Points
- Experience with other low-level programming languages.
- Strong comprehension Digital Signal Processing concepts and applications.
- Understanding of Network Theory and wireless protocols (WiFi, Bluetooth, Cellular, etc.).
- Scripting languages such as Python.
- Fluent English proficiency.
- Live or have availability to move to Sao Paulo.
Top Skills
What We Do
Tractian is a machine intelligence company that offers industrial monitoring systems. Tractian builds streamlined hardware-software solutions to give maintenance technicians and industrial decision-makers comprehensive oversight of their operations. It is democratizing access to sophisticated real-time monitoring and asset operations tools.
Tractian's solutions are used in environments that address a combined total of 5% of global industrial output. The company’s broad market reach is evidenced in its customer base from various industries, such as John Deere, Procter & Gamble, Caterpillar, Goodyear, Carrier, Johnson Controls, and Bimbo, the owner of the brands Little Bites and Thomas Bagels. Tractian's customers see a 6-12x ROI with savings of $6,000 per monitored machine annually on average.
In a major milestone and a first for the industry, Tractian launched the AI-Assisted Maintenance category in the industrial sector. In this new paradigm, artificial intelligence identifies machine problems and suggests preventive actions to be taken, giving invaluable insight and support to maintenance professionals. It is important to highlight that the intent of Assisted Maintenance is firmly rooted in augmenting maintenance professionals to provide more assertive diagnosis with human-in-the-loop feedback.
Tractian's mission is to elevate this category of workers in a highly impactful way. The Assisted Maintenance category will provide unimaginable support for maintenance professionals. By combining shop floor expertise with our technology, maintainers will be able to anticipate and address issues with unprecedented accuracy and speed
