Firmware Engineer
LIFX, Australia
Job Description
-There's something amazing about about turning on a new product for the first time. Now imagine that you were instrumental in creating it. That is the experience that comes with working here at LIFX/Buddy. We're looking for an experienced Firmware Engineer to join us and help us grow our successful suite of products. You'll collaborate with the rest of our global team to design, develop, debug, release and support firmware across a range of unique and complex IoT products.
Location: Australia (not limited in VIC)
About us [LIFX and Buddy]
We’re a tech company that loves to innovate, take on challenges and push the boundaries of our sector. At LIFX we’re hands on, collaborating closely across all parts of the the company in Australia, Silicon Valley and globally - sharing expertise, knowledge and skills across everything from digital marketing, e-commerce and customer experience to retail point of sale, product packaging and app design. We love big ideas, genius at play and good team players. LIFX is the world's favourite full-colour, Wi-Fi Smart light. We're a global brand with a loyal customer base that ships to over 120 countries and maintains strong partnerships with the leading Connected Home platforms including Amazon, Google, Apple, JB Hi-Fi, Bunnings, Officeworks, MediaMarkt, Saturn and Best Buy (in both the US and Canada). The company’s suite of Wi-Fi enabled lights are currently used in well over a million homes, and considered to be the #2 brand of smart lights globally.
Buddy Buddy Technologies Limited (BUD.ASX) helps customers of any size make every space smarter. Buddy has two core businesses its Commercial Business and Consumer Business. Buddy Ohm and Buddy Managed Services are the company’s core Commercial offerings that empower its customers to fully leverage digital technologies and their impact in a strategic and sustainable way. Buddy Ohm is a resource monitoring and analytics solution that provides energy monitoring, reporting and auditing services for commercial and industrial customers. Buddy Managed Services licenses Buddy’s technology platforms to customers for integration into their own products. Buddy’s Consumer Business trades under the LIFX brand and has established a leading market position as a provider of smart lighting solutions. For more information, visit www.buddy.com and www.lifx.com.
Requirements
Essential
- Fast learning self-starter who loves the thrill of a challenge
- Passion for solving tricky problems
- A team player with good communication skills
- At least 5 years of in-depth experience designing, implementing, testing and debugging complex Embedded Systems
- You have developed firmware for at least 2 different target platforms (with differing operating systems (RTOS), tool chains, processor architectures)
- C/C++ expert
- Ability to gain technical insights from reading schematics and datasheets
- Expertise with git amp; using a Linux-based development environment
- Expertise with using tools such as DSOs, Protocol Analysers, JTAG, debuggers, profilers
- Experience in interfacing with hardware, realtime operating systems RTOS), modifying bootloaders
- Effectively work with people of different technical backgrounds, some of whom will be in different time zones
- Experience with Startups, or at least a good understanding of what it might be like to work at one
Bonus Points
- Designing, integrating, troubleshooting Communications Protocols eg. Wi-Fi, Thread, Zigbee, Bluetooth/BLE, 802.11, SSL/TLS
- Python
- Soldering skills
- A wider interest in Internet of Things, High Availability Systems, Web, Android, Windows 10 and iOS Development
- Any IoT projects you have worked on professionally or otherwise
Benefits
We offer a competitive salary, great working conditions, a supportive team in a wonderful office with the opportunity to work with one of Australia’s leading startups. We value the work-life balance of our team-members and offer flexible working conditions to meet your needs. You have the opportunity to work on interesting technical challenges with the satisfaction of seeing the products that you have worked on in major retailers like Bunnings, JB-Hifi and more.