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And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact - innovating at the speed of life.\nJoin Molecular Devices and help drive scientific discovery for life science customers in academia, biotech, pharma, and government. Our automated and AI-enabled technology empowers researchers to tackle complex questions and gain deep insights, accelerating the development of safer, more effective therapeutics. As part of our team-rooted in collaboration, authenticity, and innovation-you’ll ultimately contribute to groundbreaking science that enhances lives globally and shapes a healthier future for all.\nLearn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible.\nThe Senior Firmware Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, verifying, and maintaining embedded firmware for advanced scientific imaging and automation instruments. The role supports shared and complementary embedded technologies across the imaging instrument platforms, including real-time control, precision motion, imaging hardware, communications, firmware updates, environmental control, diagnostics, and multi-board integration.\nThis position reports to the Software Engineering Manager and is part of the Engineering team located in San Jose, California. This is an on-site role supporting hands-on instrument development and integration.\nIn this role, you will have the opportunity to:\nDesign and deliver production embedded firmware in C and modern C++ for STM32-based controllers, creating maintainable architectures for multi-board scientific instruments and board-specific applications.\nLead hardware bring-up, subsystem integration, and performance optimization across motion, imaging, illumination, sensing, temperature control, and other instrument functions in partnership with electrical, mechanical, systems, test, application software, and manufacturing teams.\nDevelop and troubleshoot real-time FreeRTOS and CMSIS-RTOS applications, including task scheduling, synchronization, queues, notifications, timers, interrupts, DMA, memory usage, and fault recovery.\nImplement reliable device communication and update capabilities, including peripheral drivers, framed host-device protocols, CRC-protected messaging, Ethernet/TCP services, embedded networking, bootloaders, flash programming, image verification, and persistent configuration.\nStrengthen product quality and technical execution by building unit, integration, hardware-assisted, and hardware-in-the-loop tests; maintaining build and continuous-integration workflows; leading design and code reviews; documenting interfaces and decisions; mentoring engineers; and driving root-cause analysis of regressions and field issues.\nThe essential requirements of the job include:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.\n5+ years of professional embedded firmware development experience, including ownership of production systems through development, integration, release, and maintenance.\nExpert proficiency in embedded C and strong proficiency in modern C++ for resource-constrained microcontrollers, with practical experience on STM32 or comparable Arm Cortex-M platforms.\nHands-on experience developing RTOS-based and non-RTOS embedded systems, including interrupts, DMA, timers, concurrency, memory constraints, and fault handling. Experience designing and maintaining hardware-facing firmware using UART, I2C, SPI, PWM, ADC/DAC, GPIO, Ethernet/TCP, or comparable interfaces. Ability to read schematics and datasheets and diagnose hardware-firmware interactions using oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, logic analyzers, and other standard bench tools.\nDemonstrated experience with code reviews, automated testing, technical documentation, and disciplined root-cause analysis for complex embedded products.\nTravel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:\nWilling and able to travel up to 10%.\nAble to lift up to 50 pounds.\nIt would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:\nExperience developing scientific instruments, microscopy systems, laboratory automation, imaging systems, or other complex electromechanical products.\nExperience integrating device drivers with application software.\nMolecular Devices, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.\nThe annual salary range for this role is $120,000 to $160,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.\nThis job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.\nWe offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.\nNote: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.\nJoin our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.\nFor more information, visit www.danaher.com.\nDanaher Corporation and all Danaher Companies are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law.\nThe U.S. EEO posters are available here.\nFor candidates who are based outside of New York City or who are applying for roles outside of New York City, for more information about conditions of any job offer please click here.\nWe comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. 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