Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Filtronic is a leader in advanced RF and microwave technology, designing and manufacturing high-performance solutions for the Space, Aerospace, Defence and Telecommunications sectors.

As we continue to grow, we're looking for aSenior or Higher Senior Embedded Software Engineer to join our engineering team at our headquarters in Sedgefield. This is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge embedded software that powers some of the world's most advanced RF and communications systems.

You'll be part of a multidisciplinary engineering team developing innovative products from concept through to production, working alongside experts in RF, FPGA, hardware and systems engineering.

What You'll Be Doing

As an Embedded Software Engineer, you'll design, develop and debug embedded software for real-world RF applications, working on both bare-metal and RTOS-based systems.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Developing embedded software in C/C++ for ARM-based microcontrollers.
• Designing software for bare-metal and real-time operating systems, including FreeRTOS and Zephyr.
• Bringing up new hardware and debugging prototype boards using oscilloscopes, logic analysers and software debugging tools.
• Developing robust communications between embedded devices using interfaces such as Ethernet, CAN, SPI, I²C, UART and RS422.
• Designing networking functionality including TCP/IP, REST APIs, SNMP and OpenAPI interfaces.
• Working closely with hardware, FPGA and systems engineers to integrate software with complex electronic systems.
• Investigating and resolving software, networking and embedded system issues.
• Contributing throughout the full product development lifecycle from concept through to manufacture.