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Software Development Engineer 4

Redmond, WA 98058

Posted: 01/08/2025 Employment Type: Contract Department: Core Technologies - Contract, Microsoft, VMS Job Number: 29962 Industry: SOFT - Software Companies

Job Description

Position Title: Software Development Engineer 4

Position Description: Protingent has an exciting contract opportunity for a Software Development Engineer 4 with our client located in Redmond, WA. This role is 100 onsite.

Job Description:
  • The development team is seeking a talented software development engineer with a strong systems background and experience with hardware and device drivers or firmware interaction. Qualified candidates should have strong software or firmware development and debugging experience, including knowledge of RTOS or Windows OS kernel.
  • What makes this role interesting? - This role provides the opportunity to deal with cutting edge technology.

Job Responsibilities:
  • This is a firmware and drivers development and debugging role. The ideal candidate will contribute to the successful development of products by developing new features, improve existing drivers, and investigate and resolve various complex technical challenges to improve the usability and stability of the products.
  • You will work in a fast-paced environment and will need to demonstrate ability to learn new technologies, make progress quickly. Candidates must enjoy working collaboratively with development, program management, hardware engineers, test engineers, and other partner teams.
  • This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated engineer with passion for quality and integrated experiences to thrive in a customer focused environment. This person will ensure we are delivering the complete end-to-end hardware and software experiences that will delight our customers.
  • The candidate will:
    • Work on new devices at various stages of hardware development including prototype hardware. Work closely with software and hardware developers and program managers, located in Redmond and in Asia, to create or improve various components of the software/firmware.
    • Be able to investigate, repro and debug problems and collaborate with project team on solutions.
    • Use WinDbg, Windows Performance Analyzer, ETL traces, and various software/firmware debugging tools to root cause and resolve product issues.
    • Develop device drivers or other drivers features to light up new features according to product requirements and specifications.
    • Participate in development forums and discussions to propose and implement software solutions.
  • Purpose of the Team: The purpose of this team is the firmware for devices on the UP side.
  • Key projects: This role will contribute to working on devices.
  • Typical task breakdown and operating rhythm: The role will consist of 10% meeting, 90% of coding and the remaining would be testing and validation.
  Job Qualifications:
  • Must Have Excellent c/c ++ design and coding skills | 3+ years of experience
  • Must Have Experience in any of Kernel, Windows Internals, Windows Drivers, Linux Drivers, UEFI, WDF, KMDF and UMDF. Windows device drivers or kernel experience strongly preferred. | 3+ years of experience
  • Must Have Embedded FW development | 3+ years of experience
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience in firmware, embedded system, or device drivers’ development.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Electrical/Electronic/Automation Engineering or related field
  • Best vs. Average:
    • Domain knowledge on significant PC subsystems and industry specifications around graphics, audio, cameras, sensors or touch, inputs.
    • Experience and ability to ramp-up quickly on complex and unfamiliar code across various technology areas.
    • Experience in the design and development of a product or significant product subsystem through multiple new consumer product releases.
    • Experience in development of UEFI or microcontroller firmware including working within an RTOS environment on any OS platforms.
    • Able to debug across various environments, and multiple layers of the software/firmware stack, and to quickly identify and resolve issues spanning multiple subsystems, owners, and organizations.
    • Experience with oscilloscopes, protocol analysers, or other HW debugging tools and techniques.
    • Motivated, with a sense of ownership to drive multiple efforts and investigations to achieve successful customer-focused outcomes.
    • Tolerance for ambiguity with an ability to make progress in the face of it.
    • Strong communication skills and ability to work across multiple disciplines and functions (Program Management, Test, Hardware etc.)
  • Experience with Windows kernel and drivers debugging, and memory crashdump or ETL trace analysis. Specific experiences in troubleshooting system stability or performance through debuggers are preferred.
  • Experience with various interfaces including SPI, USB, I2C, UART are beneficial.

Job Details:
  • Job Type: Contract
  • Location: Redmond, WA (100% Onsite).
  • Pay Range: $74.50/hr. to $99.50/hr.
  • An offer of employment is contingent on successfully passing a background check, and applicants who do not successfully pass a background check will not be considered for employment.

Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO) and an administered 401k plan.

About Protingent: Protingent is a niche provider of top Engineering and IT talent to Software, Electronics, Medical Device, Telecom, and Aerospace companies nationwide. Protingent exists to make a positive impact and contribution to the lives of others as well as our community by providing relevant, rewarding, and exciting work opportunities for our candidates.

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