Principal Embedded Software Engineer

Kings Hedges
Cambridge, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Board Bringup
Automation of Tests
Code Coverage
Profiling
Software Quality
Software Debugging
Device Drivers
Embedded C
Linux on Embedded Systems
Embedded Software
Real-Time Operating Systems
Software Engineering
Systems Integration
Multithreading
Real Time Systems
Integration Tests
Bare Metal
Hardware Debugging

Job description

  • Architecting, developing and debugging low-level embedded software and device drivers across Embedded Linux, RTOS and bare-metal platforms.

  • Leading platform software activities, including software design, task planning, integration testing and technical reviews.

  • Investigating and resolving complex real-time system issues across multi-threaded, event-driven embedded systems.

  • Collaborating closely with hardware teams during board bring-up, system integration and product development.

  • Driving technical standards and mentoring engineers across the embedded software team.

Requirements

  • 8+ years' embedded C development experience delivering commercially released real-time embedded products.

  • Strong expertise in low-level device drivers, Embedded Linux driver architecture and ARM-based platforms/BSPs.

  • Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills within multi-processor, multi-threaded embedded systems.

  • Experience working across the full software development lifecycle including design, testing and integration.

Bonus Skills:

  • Experience within telecommunications, wireless communications or mobile embedded products.

  • Familiarity with hardware debugging tools including oscilloscopes and logic analysers.

  • Experience with automated testing, profiling, code coverage and memory analysis tools.

  • Knowledge of Agile / Scrum development environments and modern software quality processes.

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