Firmware Engineer

Job Title: Firmware EngineerJob DescriptionThis role focuses on enhancing and maintaining documentation, design artifacts, and traceability for Class C embedded software. The Firmware Engineer will update project and software development plans, refine unit-level designs, and strengthen risk and architecture tracing to support high-integrity firmware development. This position plays a key role in ensuring that all software artifacts meet rigorous quality, safety, and compliance standards.

Responsibilities

• Update the Project Quality Plan to include accurate references and items relevant to Class C software.
• Update the Software Development Plan to reflect requirements, processes, and controls specific to Class C software.
• Create new Software Safety and Risk Management (SSRM) items for higher-risk areas, maintain those items, and ensure complete traceability for all related artifacts.
• Develop more detailed information and documentation for unit interfaces, ensuring clarity and consistency across the firmware architecture.
• Create new software-specific tracing to link requirements, design, implementation, and verification activities.
• Write detailed documentation related to tools used in the software development lifecycle, including their purpose, configuration, and usage constraints.
• Produce and update unit-level design documentation, including diagrams and descriptions that align with Class C software requirements.
• Create additional tracing for Class C software, such as architecture traceability to design and implementation artifacts in embedded software.
• Update Design Failure Mode and Effects Analyses (DFMEAs) to reflect current design decisions, risks, and mitigations for Class C software.

Essential Skills

• Experience working with Class C software, including understanding of associated quality and safety requirements.
• Proficiency in developing and updating project quality plans for embedded or firmware projects.
• Experience updating and maintaining software development plans for regulated or safety-critical software.
• Ability to create and maintain Software Safety and Risk Management (SSRM) items, including traceability across requirements, design, and tests.
• Strong skills in documenting and specifying unit interfaces for embedded software components.
• Experience creating software-specific traceability between requirements, architecture, design, implementation, and verification artifacts.
• Ability to write clear, detailed documentation for software development tools and their usage.
• Proficiency in unit-level design for embedded or firmware systems, including architecture and detailed design updates.
• Experience creating and maintaining architecture-to-design tracing for Class C embedded software.
• Experience updating and maintaining DFMEAs for software or embedded systems.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Background in embedded software or firmware engineering in a regulated or safety-critical environment.
• Familiarity with risk management and safety analysis methods applied to software and firmware.
• Strong attention to detail and a structured approach to documentation and traceability.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams such as quality, systems, and hardware engineering.

Work EnvironmentThe Firmware Engineer will work in a structured, process-driven environment focused on Class C embedded software. The role involves extensive interaction with documentation, design artifacts, risk analyses, and traceability tools used to support safety-critical firmware development. The work setting emphasizes adherence to defined development processes, quality plans, and risk management practices, with close collaboration across engineering disciplines to maintain consistency and compliance throughout the project lifecycle. Job Type & LocationThis is a Permanent position based out of Maple Grove, MN. Pay and BenefitsThe pay range for this position is $130000.00 - $165000.00/yr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Job Type & LocationThis is a Permanent position based out of Maple Grove, MN. Application DeadlineThis position is anticipated to close on Nov 13, 2026. Workplace TypeThis is a hybrid position in Maple Grove,MN.About Actalent

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