Acara Solutions has been providing advanced manufacturing firms nationally with our staffing related services for over 65 years. We currently have a 3-6 month contract position for an Embedded Engineer. This contractor can work onsite or hybrid (coming in weekly) in San Diego. This is at a Sr, Sr Staff, or Principal experience level - hourly rate DOE from $60 - $80+. Our client specializes in low power consumption IoT wireless module products.

Please only respond with your resume if you have prior experience in developing device drivers for RF circuits in an SoC.

- Design, develop, implement and test RF drivers for SoC products.

- Work with RF and Systems teams to understand requirements and write clear documents that describes software procedures, high level design and detailed design.

- Understand existing implementation from source code, modify and support bug fixing.

- Hands on testing using lab equipment such as testers, power supplies, temp chambers etc.

Required Skills / Qualifications:

BSEE with a min of 15 years of experience in embedded software, or a MSEE and 10 years min experience. This experience should also include:

- Expert level in C programming is a must along with debugging using industry standard embedded tools such as J-Link, OpenOCD etc.

- Working knowledge in Python is a must.

- Working knowledge in Git/Gitlab/JIRA.

- Prior experience developing device drivers for RF circuits in a SoC and familiarity in Wi-Fi and BT/BLE standards.

- Understanding of radio impairments and software-based compensation techniques.

- Excellent communication skills.

- Ability to break down complex problems and evaluate tradeoffs between proposed solutions.