Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer

Location: East Kilbride

Salary: up to £50,000

Benefits: Attractive bens including profit-based annual bonus, gym membership

Hours: Flexible working hours

The Company:

Our client is a product development consultancy focused upon embedded systems, sensors, IoT & Industry 4.0. Serving both Entrepreneurs & Industrial Manufacturers my client provides delivery of new product development projects from concept through, design & test, to manufacturing, product launch & life-cycle maintenance. Due to continued growth my client requires an Embedded Firmware Engineer to support development of firmware for customer client solutions.

Duties/ Key responsibilities:

• An opportunity to work on varied & interesting projects across a range of industries & market sectors

• Full software product development life-cycle support.
• Requirements capture & software design / modelling via UML
• C programming of ARM Cortex M Series Micro-controllers
• Low level driver & HAL development.
• Linux buildroot, scripting & kernel support.
• Test & quality assurance of implemented software.
• Software configuration, release & change management.

Key Relationships:

• Customer facing support for requirements capture.
• Primary project management contact for outsourced embedded systems partners.
• Co-ordination of supply chain partners within the project.
• Coaching & mentoring of embedded team members.
• Although this is a UK-based role, the successful candidate may be required to travel to overseas development & manufacturing sites.

Required Skills:

• 5 years embedded systems programming in C.
• Familiar with FreeRTOS, Zephyr, Micrium or ThreadX
• Familiar with embedded systems interconnections, including UART / I2C / SPI / MIPI
• Experience implementing one or more radio protocols BLE / Zigbee / Z-Wave / Thread / WiFi
• Implementation of cloud connectivity via AWS or Microsoft Azure Beneficial Skills:
• Embedded Linux implementations
• Awareness of cybersecurity risks & best practice solutions.
• Higher level language for mobile, web or cloud-based programming
• Awareness of machine learning / AI solutions.
• Bachelor’s degree qualifications in software engineering.

Desirable:

• Post graduate qualified in science or engineering subject.
• Technically competent with strong problem solving & decision-making skills.
• Exceptional focus on quality with high attention to detail.
• Good planning & organization skills, able to estimate task scope & time required.
• Clear written & oral communication skills, ability to make the complex clear.
• Ability to work with independently & as part of a collaborative team.
• Able to manage sensitive information responsibly