ACARA Jobs
Embedded Systems Firmware Engineer
Apply- ID: 559051
- Posted: 4/10/2026
- Location: Phoenix, AZ
- Category: Pro - Engineering
- Job Type: Temp to Direct
- Duration: Contract to Di
Description
Job Title: Embedded Systems Firmware Engineer
Location: Phoenix, AZ .
Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire
Industry: Semiconductor
Compensation: $ 67/hour
Schedule:40 hrs/Week
About the Opportunity:
- As an Embedded Systems Firmware Engineer, you will work with a multi-discipline team to design and build advanced thermal control systems used in semiconductor device testing.
- As higher-power ICs (AI accelerators, servers, and advanced processors) push thermal limits, precise temperature control during test has become increasingly complex.
- In this role, you will help design and implement embedded firmware solutions for supporting subsystems working with microcontrollers, hardware interfaces, and Linux based systems
Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability
- Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries
- People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work
- Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
- This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.
About Acara Solutions
Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience across industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive the business outcomes they seek. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
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What You'll Do:
- Design and implement firmware running on driver/HAL, FreeRTOS, or bare-metal microcontroller platforms notably including ATMEGA and STM32 devices
- Design and develop embedded firmware in C++ for ARM-based Linux systems with touchscreen user interfaces
- Own and execute embedded firmware projects or subsystems with minimal oversight
- Implement application-layer communication using TCP/IP and serial bus protocols
- Collaborate with system and hardware engineers to implement firmware features supporting thermal control systems
- Interface directly with analog and digital hardware (ADC, DAC, PWM)
- Develop automated regression and system-level tests
- Build internal tools and both Windows and Linux desktop applications to support development, testing, and manufacturing
- Support embedded products through development, production, and field use Validation, Test, and Support
Job Requirements
What You'll Bring:
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or Computer Science or Physics.
- 5+ years' experience in embedded system programming in C or C++
- 5+ years' experience in programming and configuring linux, particularly in near-real-time control environments
- 5+ years' experience in common communication protocols such as TCP/IP Sockets, RS-232, RS-485, I2C, and SPI
- 5+ years' experience in interfacing to low-level analog hardware via ADC, DAC, DIO, and PWM
- 5+ years' experience in using standard software development methods (e.g. git, issues tracking, code review)
What Sets You Apart:
- Assembler knowledge desirable
- Experience using C to develop embedded applications using driver/HAL, Free RTOS, or bare-metal microcontroller environments.
- Proven application programming experience on Linux-based platforms requiring multi-process/multi-thread with resource sharing
- Ability to understand electrical schematics and design low-level drivers using IC datasheets as reference
- User Interface programming experience.
- Experience using Yocto for creating custom Linux distributions.
- Design and maintenance responsibility for embedded products throughout full product life cycle.
- Qt programming
- Python programming
- C# programming (Visual Studio)
- System test engineering
- Electronic hardware troubleshooting
- Electronic design including schematic capture and PCB design
- System architect/system design
- IC Test or Burn-in
Additional Information:
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.