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Build the firmware behind precision solar measurement products used around the world. Imagine yourself… • Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you.  • Growing your expertise and expanding your skillset with every project.  • Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth.  It’s possible with a role at Kipp & Zonen , where you’ll have the chance to shape the future of your career—and the future of our planet. At Kipp & Zonen, a Veralto company, you’ll help advance trusted instruments for solar and atmospheric measurement—powering smarter decisions across climate research, road weather, and renewable energy. Since 1830, Kipp & Zonen has helped customers solve environmental challenges with precise, dependable data that drives safer, smarter, and more sustainable outcomes. Join Kipp & Zonen and Veralto to do meaningful work, grow your skills, and build a career with real impact. We offer: • Flexible working hours • Professional onboarding and training options • Powerful team looking forward to working with you • Career coaching and development opportunities • Health benefits • 401(k) We are looking for a Firmware Engineer to join our collaborative, Austin-based R&D team with the backing, mentoring, and resources of a global organization. In this P3-level role, you will contribute across the full product lifecycle—from new product design and production release through sustaining support—developing reliable embedded firmware for solar sensing and controls products. Your work will span bare-metal microcontroller development, embedded Linux, hardware bring-up, automated verification, debugging, and release readiness. This is a full-time, fully on-site position in Austin, Texas (North Central Austin, near The Domain). What you will own • Design, implement, review, and debug bare-metal embedded firmware in C for MCU-based solar sensing and controls products. • Build Python-based test tools, automated regression workflows, and release-quality verification methods to improve firmware reliability. • Develop embedded Linux services, diagnostics, and application logic; experience with Yocto is valuable. • Own hands-on hardware bring-up and integrate sensors, ADCs, communications interfaces, memory, and other peripherals using schematics, datasheets, and lab tools. • Investigate system, production, and field failures using instrumentation, logs, controlled experiments, and structured root-cause analysis. • Support firmware release readiness through clear test evidence, release notes, risk documentation, and cross-functional review. • Partner with hardware, systems, manufacturing, quality, and support teams to resolve issues and improve product performance. • Author detailed documentation of firmware designs, debug findings, test procedures, release decisions, and sustaining actions to support continuous improvement and knowledge transfer. What you bring • Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, software engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, or another related STEM field. Candidates with a less directly related STEM degree may be considered when supported by extensive hands-on production firmware experience. • Typically five or more years of hands-on embedded firmware experience; candidates with fewer years may be considered when they demonstrate strong technical depth and experience developing and shipping new products. • Strong bare-metal embedded C expertise, including practical debugging on resource-constrained microcontroller systems. • Experience developing and releasing production-quality firmware for new products—not solely sustaining or maintenance work. • Experience with MCU peripherals and hardware/software interfaces such as SPI, I²C, UART, CAN, Ethernet, or similar. • Ability to read schematics and datasheets and use lab tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, and debuggers. • Hands-on experience with hardware bring-up, peripheral integration, firmware validation, or production release support. • Experience investigating system-level issues using structured debugging, test evidence, and root-cause analysis. • Experience with Python for test tools, automated verification workflows, regression testing, or embedded Linux development. • Willingness to work on-site and closely with hardware, software, manufacturing, quality, and support teams. • Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail. • Strong communication skills and a collaborative, team-oriented mindset. Experience that would help you stand out • Embedded Linux experience, particularly with Yocto. • Experience with C# or another object-oriented programming language and the ability to apply object-oriented design principles. • Experience with solar, renewable energy, industrial instrumentation, outdoor products, or sensor-based measurement systems. • Experience with bootloaders, firmware update mechanisms, diagnostics, or secure firmware practices. • Experience with CI/CD, repeatable builds, firmware release discipline, or automated regression testing. • Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies or programming languages quickly and apply them to unfamiliar products. • Experience with failure analysis of returned or fielded products, low-power systems, or ruggedized embedded products. Why join • A close-knit Austin R&D team with the support, mentors, and expertise of Veralto’s global organization. • Meaningful ownership across the firmware lifecycle, from architecture and implementation through verification, release, and sustainment. • Opportunity to develop embedded systems for solar measurement products used in demanding field environments. • A hands-on role where your firmware judgment, lab work, cross-functional partnership, and root-cause problem-solving directly influence product reliability and customer outcomes. Kipp & Zonen is proud to be part of the Water Quality segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a $5.5B global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. When you join Veralto’s vibrant global network of 17,000 associates, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility : where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where you’ll have valuable opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career. Together, we’re Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources™—and building rewarding careers along the way. US ONLY : The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. An associate’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs. The compensation range for this role is $100,000 - $120,000 USD per year. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees. Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law. US residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information. Veralto Corporation and all Veralto Companies are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. We value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes. The EEO posters are available here . We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us at applyassistance@veralto.com to request accommodation. Unsolicited Assistance We do not accept unsolicited assistance from any headhunters or recruitment firms for any of our job openings. All resumes or profiles submitted by search firms to any employee at any of the Veralto companies , in any form without a valid, signed search agreement in place for the specific position, approved by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Veralto and its companies. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Veralto and its companies because of the unsolicited referral.

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Build the firmware behind precision solar measurement products used around the world.
Imagine yourself…
Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you.
Growing your expertise and expanding your skillset with every project.
Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth.
It’s possible with a role at Kipp & Zonen , where you’ll have the chance to shape the future of your career—and the future of our planet.
At Kipp & Zonen, a Veralto company, you’ll help advance trusted instruments for solar and atmospheric measurement—powering smarter decisions across climate research, road weather, and renewable energy.
Since 1830, Kipp & Zonen has helped customers solve environmental challenges with precise, dependable data that drives safer, smarter, and more sustainable outcomes.
Join Kipp & Zonen and Veralto to do meaningful work, grow your skills, and build a career with real impact.
Flexible working hours
Professional onboarding and training options
Powerful team looking forward to working with you
Career coaching and development opportunities
This is a full-time, fully on-site position in Austin, Texas (North Central Austin, near The Domain).
What you will own
Design, implement, review, and debug bare-metal embedded firmware in C for MCU-based solar sensing and controls products.
Build Python-based test tools, automated regression workflows, and release-quality verification methods to improve firmware reliability.
Develop embedded Linux services, diagnostics, and application logic; experience with Yocto is valuable.
Own hands-on hardware bring-up and integrate sensors, ADCs, communications interfaces, memory, and other peripherals using schematics, datasheets, and lab tools.
Investigate system, production, and field failures using instrumentation, logs, controlled experiments, and structured root-cause analysis.
Support firmware release readiness through clear test evidence, release notes, risk documentation, and cross-functional review.
Partner with hardware, systems, manufacturing, quality, and support teams to resolve issues and improve product performance.
Author detailed documentation of firmware designs, debug findings, test procedures, release decisions, and sustaining actions to support continuous improvement and knowledge transfer.
Typically five or more years of hands-on embedded firmware experience; candidates with fewer years may be considered when they demonstrate strong technical depth and experience developing and shipping new products.

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