Job Description

About Mettler Toledo

Working at METTLER TOLEDO AutoChem Inc. ( means you are impacting the world in important ways. Our process analytical technology and automated synthesis reactors provide scientists in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical industries the information they need to deliver life-changing products. As a strategic business unit within Mettler Toledo, AutoChem develops, manufactures, sells, and services instruments that modernize chemical synthesis, provide insight to every chemical reaction, and provide process knowledge to eliminate scale-up and safety incidents.

• Our instruments increase the efficiency and effectiveness of chemists and engineers.
• Our products help develop profitable, green, and safe scientific processes.
• We help keep you healthy. Our instruments make it possible for scientists to develop new drugs and bring life-saving medicines to the world.

Our Opening and Your Responsibilities

Reporting to the Head of Engineering, Hardware, this position will be responsible for leading embedded software development and integration with electronics projects for a series of analytical instruments and devices. Based on various embedded frameworks, software libraries, and specifically tailored development tools, the position will lead all development phases of embedded engineering from architectural design implementation and testing.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Independently designing software/firmware architectures based on an internal model framework and development processes.
• Collaborating with R&D team members to design, develop, and test electronic, electro-mechanical, and optoelectronic components, subsystems (including systems on chip/module), and systems for integration into new scientific and legacy products.
• Providing software interfaces to connect device drivers, PC software, and peripherals to instruments. Integrating software libraries and drivers provided by external partners and team members. Collaborating with the R&D team to set the firmware/API requirements for the external partners.
• Generating embedded software code and conducting internal design reviews for performance, testability, manufacturability, and serviceability.
• Collaborating with hardware and software engineers and scientists to enable prototyping and development of software interfaces in parallel with hardware design and verification.

What You Need to Succeed

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer science, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Seven (7) years of software development experience as an embedded software architect and system level firmware designer and developer.
• Detailed knowledge of microprocessors and embedded computing systems and associate subsystems, as well as software development lifecycle process and various SDLC models.
• Excellent C, C++, skills using the GNU tool chain and/or MS Visual Studio/VS Code; experience with off target embedded development using cross compiling tool chains/ MATLAB and/or C# experience is a plus.
• Extensive knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems, various software configuration management tools, and best practices as they related to SCM disciplines. Driver development experience is a plus.
• Experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying service applications that expose APIs enabling client interactions; especially request/response (REQ/RSP) and publish/subscribe (PUB/SUB) models.
• Microcontroller experience and experience with highly constrained computing platforms is required. Microchip MPLABX-IDE and/or other embedded platform development tool chains is a plus.
• Experience with embedded operating systems and knowledge of embedded operating system operational modes. Embedded Linux, FreeRTOS, VxWorks, or other real time operating systems and development experience is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with electronics, including testing, validating, and troubleshooting of assembled circuit boards using digital voltmeter, oscilloscope, and other hardware/software analysis tools.

Our Offer to You

• Medical, dental and vision care coverage and a 401(k) savings plan with company matching – all starting on date of hire
• Tuition reimbursement, perks, and discounts
• Parental and caregiver leave programs
• All the usual benefits such as paid time off, flexible spending, short-and long-term disability, basic life insurance, business travel insurance, Employee
• Assistance Program, and domestic partner benefits
• Global market strength and worldwide leadership in precision instrumentation
• A brand name that is identified worldwide with precision, quality, and innovation
• Thousands of patents, design and innovation awards across Mettler Toledo
• Global recognition for the quality of our products and services

Equal Opportunity Employment

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We give consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected classification. If you’d like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click here.

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