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At Milwaukee Tool we firmly believe that our People and our Culture are the secrets to our success - so we give you unlimited access to everything you need to create disruptive new technologies and solutions on our electrical engineering teams. Our Engineering Team is responsible for giving life to the batteries, motors, and electronics that power solutions changing the lives of our users. Every developmental phase of these critical components happens in-house under the watch of this team. We continue to invest in electrical engineering resources to design and develop leadership in electronic capabilities; something unique within the industry. And we’re pushing the limits in firmware engineering, power electronics, embedded systems, machine learning, and the use of artificial intelligence.\nBehind our doors you’ll be empowered every day to own it, drive it, and do what it takes to design and develop the biggest breakthroughs in the industry. 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You will work through the product development process in a team environment interacting with cross-functional stakeholders such as hardware, firmware, mechanical, product development, and reliability engineers.\nYou’ll also be DISRUPTIVE through these duties and responsibilities:\nBe a core contributor on a small to medium size team of firmware engineers for the design, prototype, test, and troubleshooting of platform communications firmware to meet the needs of the organization. \nCollaborate with marketing, project leadership, and product owners to add new IoT features for next generation power tools.\nMentor the team in engineering best practices including C/C++ firmware development, task management, root cause analysis, unit testing, and RTOS.\nUse laboratory equipment such as network, power, spectrum, and protocol analyzers, oscilloscopes, and data acquisition systems.\nCreate firmware test strategies designed to provide coverage at the appropriate requirement level and drive 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