Wilcox Industries

Senior Firmware Engineer

Newington, NH
Full Time
Mid Level
Wilcox develops innovative, world class electro-mechanical combat systems for today’s warfighters and law enforcement officers. Senior Firmware Engineers are a core component of the development team serving as the technical authority for firmware development and while working to deliver best in class products.  Senior Firmware Engineers work closely with Electrical Engineers, System Engineers, Quality Engineers, Program Managers, external partners, and the customers to ensure Wilcox stays on the leading edge of technology and innovation while ensuring the team is delivering a product that our customer can trust his/her life with.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Advanced Firmware Development & Architecture:
  • Leads end-to-end design and implementation of large-scale or highly complex firmware projects (e.g., multi-processor systems, advanced RTOS, or bare-metal architectures).
  • Establishes standards for firmware modularity, reuse, and maintainability.
  • Champions best practices for debugging, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and overall embedded development life cycle.
  • Guides cross-team technical strategies (e.g., firmware build pipelines, release management).
  • Aligns firmware tasks with product requirements, collaborating with Hardware, Software, QA, Systems Engineering, and Program Management teams.
  • Interact with external vendors or third-party engineering teams to evaluate components, SDKs, or toolchains.
  • Influences firmware release processes and helps evaluate tools/technologies for continuous improvement.
Documentation & Communication:
  • Aligns firmware tasks with product requirements, collaborating with Hardware, Software, QA, Systems Engineering, and Program Management teams.
  • Coaches engineers across the organization; shapes career development plans for junior and mid-level firmware engineers.
  • Leads design reviews, fosters knowledge-sharing sessions, and institutes continuous improvement initiatives.
Qualifications & Experience
Education & Experience:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering/Computer Science required.
  • Master’s Degree preferred.
  • 7+ years of experience in a firmware engineering role, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. 
Required Skills/Abilities:
  • Regular on-site attendance is a necessary function of this position. 
  • Expert with Object-Oriented modular coding styles including data structures.
  • Proficient with bootloaders and pre-application code execution.
  • Understanding of USB Protocol.
  • Working knowledge of RTOS/Linux embedded designs.
  • Proficient implementing of SPI, I2C, UART, Synchronous/Asynchronous memory interfaces, RTC, PWM, GPIO.
  • Familiarity with secure boot.
  • Familiarity with OTP.
  • Proficient with Microsoft Office suite (Microsoft 365, Teams).
  • Proficiency in using code management and defect tracking tools (e.g., JIRA, SVN, GIT,).
  • Experience with ARM processor designs and development.
  • Wilcox is a U.S government defense contractor, and this position requires access to export-controlled technology. Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access U.S. government-controlled technology prior to beginning work.
Preferred Skills/Abilities:
  • Experience with audio/video data stream processing.
  • Proficient with USB PD Protocol.
  • Proficient with secure boot.
  • Proficient with OTP.
  • Familiarity with U.S Department of Defense contracts and requirements.
Physical Requirements:
  • Must be able to sit, stand, walk, talk, hear; use hands and fingers to handle and touch objects, tools, or controls to work in a production environment. Vision abilities required including close vision, distance vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus to work. Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer. Must be able to lift 25 pounds at times.
  • Ability to perform physical tests and handle tools/equipment used for prototyping.
Wilcox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristics protected by federal, state or local laws.

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