Embedded Engineer CV Example
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Jacob Mitchell
Embedded Software Engineer
10 years of experience building firmware and real-time systems for industrial automation and IoT devices.
Experience
Senior Embedded Engineer
CircuitNest Robotics, Full-time
2016-08-01 – Present
Munich, Germany
Firmware architecture for industrial IoT — RTOS scheduling, secure boot/OTA, and field-reliability engineering.
- Owned firmware architecture for industrial IoT controllers
- Designed RTOS task scheduling for sensor fusion workloads, maintaining deterministic latency under 8ms on ARM Cortex-M targets.
- Implemented secure boot and signed OTA updates, closing firmware tampering vectors identified in third-party audits.
- Reduced field failure rate by 29% through watchdog refinement and brownout recovery logic.
Embedded Engineer
Luma Devices, Full-time
2013-07-01 – 2016-07-01
Austin, TX, US
Low-level drivers and diagnostics — SPI/I2C abstractions, power optimization, and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
- Developed low-level drivers and diagnostics for connected hardware
- Built SPI and I2C driver abstractions for mixed-vendor peripherals, simplifying board bring-up across three product lines.
- Implemented power-state transitions and sleep-mode tuning that extended battery life by 22% in wearable devices.
- Created Python hardware-in-the-loop test suites for nightly regression of UART and BLE communication paths.
Junior Embedded Engineer
Forge Signal, Full-time
2010-06-01 – 2013-06-01
Taipei, Taiwan
Firmware validation and production readiness — MISRA porting, SWD trace tooling, and EMC/firmware co-debugging.
- Supported firmware validation and production readiness efforts
- Ported legacy C modules to MISRA-aligned code standards to satisfy automotive compliance checks.
- Built debug macros and trace pipelines over SWD to accelerate root-cause analysis of intermittent boot faults.
- Collaborated with PCB team to map EMC issues to firmware timing adjustments during pre-certification.
Education
Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science
Purdue University
2012-09-01 – 2016-06-01
Bachelor's-level training in electrical engineering at Purdue University. Completed coursework in C, C++, Embedded Linux, capstone projects, and collaborative assignments that prepared for professional roles.
Skills
Certifications
ARM Accredited Engineer (AAE)
AAE
2023-06-01
Certified LabVIEW Developer (for test automation contexts)
Certified
2022-06-01
Languages
English (Native)
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CV writing guide
- Show evidence of hardware-software debugging and lab instrumentation skills.
- Demonstrate reliability improvements in constrained-memory systems.
- Highlight familiarity with secure firmware lifecycle practices.
- ARM Accredited Engineer (AAE)
- Certified LabVIEW Developer (for test automation contexts)
- Functional Safety Engineer (ISO 26262) Foundation