Senior Firmware System Engineer

About the role

Rockwell Automation is expanding its development engineering footprint and is hiring a few Senior Firmware System Engineers for its global Power Motion Business (PMB) development organisation at the Singapore campus. The role reports to the Firmware Security Manager and is hybrid, based in the Singapore office. It involves designing embedded firmware subsystems that balance performance, memory, simplicity, correctness, reusability, reliability, security and safety.

Key responsibilities

• Design embedded firmware solutions for industrial automation products and implement firmware subsystems that improve performance, memory use, reliability, maintainability, security and scalability.
• Develop firmware using modern engineering practices and coding standards, and take part in architecture, design reviews and technical discussions.
• Create unit tests, integration tests and system verification activities, and support requirements traceability, design validation and continuous improvement.
• Investigate and resolve firmware defects, customer-reported issues and field anomalies.
• Collaborate with hardware, systems, quality, cybersecurity and product management teams across the product lifecycle, and help define development processes, coding guidelines and quality programs.
• Support cybersecurity-by-design and secure firmware development, and take part in Agile ceremonies and CI/CD activities.
• Mentor junior engineers, lead projects and work in a globally distributed team.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering (with a focus on firmware), or equivalent.
• At least 2 years of experience in embedded system firmware development, including real-time firmware, device drivers and testing with C/C++ (other middle-to-high-level languages and Python and scripting also required).
• Candidates with more than 4 years of experience may be offered a Senior Engineer position.
• Preferred: Master's degree, familiarity with Scrum and SAFe, CIP and CIP Security protocols, and experience building high-quality firmware subsystems at a high productivity rate.

Required skills

• C/C++ and Python and scripting languages.
• Green Hills Integrity OS and Multi IDE, TCP/IP networking, Git or similar version control, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Jira and Jama.
• Real-time operating systems (required); FreeRTOS or Zephyr preferred.
• Ability to organise and direct other employees and communicate with a globally distributed team.

What we offer

• Comprehensive mindfulness programmes with a premium membership to Calm.
• Paid volunteer time off after 6 months of employment, plus company volunteer and donation matching.
• Employee Assistance Program and personalised wellbeing programmes.
• On-demand digital course library for professional development and other local benefits.
• Hybrid policy: work at a Rockwell location at least Monday, Tuesday and Thursday unless there is a business reason to be out of the office.