Principal Embedded Software Engineer

Kings Hedges

Cambridge, UK

2 months ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Experience required

8 years minimum

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

apply4u.co.uk

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

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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.