Embedded Systems Engineer

Welcome to the Traegerhood

Our business is BBQ, and business tastes good. Traeger invented the wood pellet grill over 30 years ago, and we're fanatics who are dedicated to bringing people together to create a more flavorful world. From our headquarters in Salt Lake City, we work tirelessly to provide a world-class experience to our customers, retailers, and especially our employees. If you're a team player who's dedicated to delivering top-quality results every day, then we want you to come cook with us.

What You'll Do

As an Embedded Systems Engineer at Traeger, you will design, develop, and implement embedded software that controls our Traeger grills, MEATER wireless probes, and product test fixtures. You will contribute to sustaining our current products, building new features and enhancements that improve performance and user experience, and discovering innovations for future products. Success in this position requires strong analytical and data driven problem-solving skills, creativity, innovation, and attention to detail, along with clear communication of findings and progress across hardware, firmware, performance, and product teams. This position is with the firmware development group located in our Cleveland, Ohio office.

How You'll Help Us Win

• Design, document, manage, and maintain embedded software solutions from concept to implementation, ensuring they meet performance, cost, compliance, and reliability requirements.
• Collaborate with the stakeholders, test team, culinary, and design engineers to ensure everything is properly implemented and tested.
• Improve, troubleshoot, and resolve any issues or failures that arise during development, testing, or production.
• Support occasional travel or after-hours teleconferences with domestic and international partners as needed.

What You'll Need To Succeed

• Bachelor's degree: in computer engineering, computer science, or related technical field.
• Experience: 1 to 4 years of experience designing and developing firmware.
• Proficiency: in C programming language.
• Understanding: Thorough understanding of RTOS based micro-controllers and micro-controller architecture.
• Experience: with hardware bring-up and bench level debugging using test equipment (e.g. oscilloscopes, digital multi-meters, and data acquisition equipment).
• Experience: with at least some drivers for and/or utilizing various peripheral devices, sensors, and protocols such as BLE, Wi-Fi, UART, SPI, I2C, etc.
• Communication: Ability to effectively communicate ideas across a cross functional team.
• Self-motivated: and self-driven to work independently on a task but call for help when needed.
• Experience: with Microsoft applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams).
• Travel: Ability to travel occasionally (<5%) both domestically and overseas, including to Asia, to support product development activities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of reading and interpreting digital electrical schematics.
• Basic knowledge of Python for test development and build scripting.
• Familiarity using Gitlab, P4 (HelixCore) or similar revision control systems.
• Familiarity with consumer IoT architecture and products utilizing WiFi and Bluetooth.
• Familiarity leveraging AI to improve efficiency.
• Familiarity with product development using a stage-gate process.
• Familiarity using JIRA for work assignments.

Why You Will Love Working Here

• Be part of the most disruptive force in outdoor cooking.
• Join a true team working towards a common goal.
• Culture of risk-taking, innovation, & quality.
• Full medical/dental/vision package to fit your needs.
• 401k to help you plan for the future.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Individual professional development programs & initiatives to help you grow professionally.
• Great discounts on all things Traeger.

Skills

Analysis Skills, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Atlassian JIRA, Benchmark Testing, Bluetooth, C Programming Language, Communication Skills, Computer Engineering, Computer Firmware, Computer Science, Cook Dishes, Cross-Functional, Customer Experience, Debugging Skills, Design Document, Detail Oriented, Electricity, Embedded Software, Embedded Systems, Healthcare Quality, I2C, Internet of Things, Microcontroller, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Product Family, Microsoft Word, Oscilloscope, Performance Management, Peripheral Hardware, Problem Solving Skills, Product Development, Product Support, Product Testing, Production Support, Python Programming/Scripting Language, RCS (Revision Control System), Realtime Operating System, Regulatory Compliance, Risk, Schematics, Scripting (Scripting Languages), Software Administration, Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM), Systems Engineering, Team Player, Technical/Engineering Design, Teleconferencing, Test Equipment, Test Fixtures, Test Plan/Schedule, Testing, Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter (UART), User Interface/Experience (UI/UX), Wi-Fi, Willing to Travel, Wireless Products.

About the Company

Traeger Inc