Embedded Engineer

Location: Salford/Remote working option

Salary: £35,000 - £43,000 aae p.a.

Benefits: Attractive benefits including share option scheme

Hours: Flexible working hours

Overview

Our client is helping build the world’s smartest heating system. They are looking for passionate & talented individuals to join their team. The team are dynamic & fast paced, keeping up to date with the latest technologies, & using agile & self-organising principles to help deliver quality products & services. They embrace the user experience by continuously striving to add value to products through automation, collaboration, & a proactive monitoring & feedback loop with customers. Outstanding career progression opportunities.

The Role

• As a motivated Embedded Engineer, you will join an agile cross functional disciplined team
• You will be responsible for designing & implementing technical solutions for new & existing products
• You will have strong analytical & troubleshooting skills, solid communication skills
• A desire to tackle complex problems & a genuine passion for technology
• While you have a strong hardware engineering background, you should be comfortable with some basic C programming
• You will also have an awareness of mechanical design & product life cycle management

Your Experience

• 2-6 Years Embedded experience
• Experience in designing & implementing simple solutions to tricky problems
• Experience with build automation
• Understanding of RTOS based architectures
• Experience with maintaining & supporting over the air firmware upgrades
• Experience working with low energy devices
• Good understanding of hardware interfaces & key communication protocols
• Good networking experience with at least basic understanding of IP, network protocols (e.g. http, https, COAP, MQTT)
• Comfortable with using simple text editors & comm& line tools
• Proven willingness to deep dive into new technologies
• Sound analytical, problem solving & decision-making skills
• Good knowledge of security as it relates to IoT devices & the known standards
• Experience with the agile methodology
• Proficient oral & written communication skills
• Passion for technology & innovation

Desirable (not essential)

• History of managing large scale deployments
• Knowledge of boiler/heating/cooling systems & industry protocols Automation tooling (Static Analysers, Code Profiling, …)
• CI/CD principles & best practices (Git-based workflows, ...)
• Knowledge of good clean code practises
• Have written & maintained reusable code bases
• A degree in computer science or related areas