Senior Embedded Engineer

Innovate
Essex
2 months ago
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Senior Embedded Engineer

Position Summary and Responsibilities:

The Engineer will provide bid and business development support in collaboration with other team members. This level of support will include reviewing and specifying technical proposals, conducting trade-off analysis, and supplying estimates for effort, development time, and material cost.

  1. Over five years of experience in the industry as an embedded software developer with dependability software written in C.
  2. Expertise in creating embedded software for 32-bit ARM processors using bare metal (SAM Microchip, STM32).
  3. Software development in accordance with MISRA C coding rules and standards.
  4. Solid knowledge of hardware interfaces, including UART, SPI, and I2C.
  5. Developing embedded firmware that is installed on custom hardware and interfaces with it.
  6. Knowledge of digital circuits and proficiency with reading and analysing schematic designs.
  7. Creating functional tests for software, bench testing, and real-world verification of safety regulations.
  8. To define tasks and produce precise estimates for the delivery of software products.
  9. Writing the necessary paperwork, such as technical reports, work instructions, test plans and reports, requirements specifications, comprehensive design documents, user manuals, and so on.
  10. Version controls and issue tracking: Redmine, JIRA, GIT, SVN, or equivalent.

Advantageous Skills & Experience:

  1. Previous experience in Aerospace/Space/Defence.
  2. Experienced in developing Windows-based test applications and scripts in C#, C++, Python or similar.
  3. Use of electronic test equipment (e.g. oscilloscopes, logic analyser).

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

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