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With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility - our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.\nWe welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!\nJob Description\nJob Summary:\nAs part of our development engineering expansion footprint, we are hiring for a few Senior/ Firmware System Engineer to be part of our global Power Motion Business (PMB) development organisation in the Singapore Campus.\nWe require a good background in embedded firmware development and real-time control systems. This professional would participate in the design of embedded firmware subsystems. These subsystems would optimize and balance a variety of goals, including run-time performance, memory requirements, simplicity, and correctness. They would also balance development time and effort goals, reusability, extendibility, reliability, security, and safety. This firmware engineer would need to maximise the reuse of existing internal or external firmware components, frameworks, real time operating system services, middleware and device drivers to shorten the product development cycle. This includes reviews of the subsystem and system design of others for system design possible effects.\nYou will report to the Firmware Security Manager, will work in hybrid, based in Singapore Office.\nYour Responsibilities:\nDesign embedded firmware solutions for industrial automation products.\nDesign and implement firmware subsystems that increase performance, memory use, reliability, maintainability, security, and scalability.\nDevelop firmware using modern firmware engineering practices and coding standards.\nParticipate in firmware architecture, design reviews, and technical discussions to ensure solutions.\nDevelop unit tests, integration tests, and system verification activities.\nCreate quality through requirements traceability, design validation, and continuous improvement programmes.\nInvestigate and resolve firmware defects, customer-reported issues, and field anomalies.\nCollaborate with hardware, systems, quality, cybersecurity, and product management teams throughout the product lifecycle.\nHelp engineer best practices, development processes, coding guidelines, and firmware quality programs.\nSupport cybersecurity-by-design practices and secure firmware development activities.\nParticipate in Agile development processes, including Sprint Planning, Reviews, Retrospectives, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) activities.\nMentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership on projects.\nFunction within a globally distributed team environment as both an individual contributor and technical leader.\nStay current with new embedded technologies, industry standards, and cybersecurity practices relevant to industrial products.\nEnsure compliance with company policies, quality standards, regulatory requirements, and engineering processes.\nThe Essentials - You Will Have:\nBachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering with concentration in Firmware; or equivalent.\nPossess a minimum of 2 years' experience in embedded system firmware development with an emphasis on the analysis, design, programming, and testing of real-time Firmware systems and device drivers development using modern engineering practices using the C/C++ language (or other middle to high-level language), python and scripting languages required. Candidates with more than 5 years' experience in the embedded system firmware and device drivers development area might be offered Senior Engineer position.\nGreen Hills Integrity OS and Multi IDE, TCP/IP networking, Git or similar version control tools to create CI/CD Pipelines, and collaboration tools such as Jira and Jama.\nThe Preferred - You Might Also Have:\nMaster of Science in Computer Science or Computer Engineering; or equivalent in-depth knowledge and experience.\nFamiliarity with the following tools and languages is desired. These include Python.\nFamiliarity with agile processes like Scrum and SAFe is desired.\nFamiliarity with CIP and CIP Security protocols.\nFamiliarity with real time operating system is required. FreeRTOS or Zephyr is preferrable.\nExperience specifying and developing high quality, maintainable Firmware subsystems or systems at a high rate of productivity required.\nWell established ability to organize and direct activities of other employees and communicate with a globally distributed team is required.\ncollaborator in a matrixed organization.\nDemonstrate customer centric culture to understand our internal and external customers.\nWhat We Offer:\nOur benefits package includes …\nComprehensive mindfulness programmes with a premium membership to Calm\nVolunteer Paid Time off available after 6 months of employment for eligible employees.\nCompany volunteer and donation matching programme - Your volunteer hours or personal cash donations to an eligible charity can be matched with a charitable donation.\nEmployee Assistance Program\nPersonalised wellbeing programs through our OnTrack programme\nOn-demand digital course library for professional development\n... and other local benefits!\nAt Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. 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