IoT Engineer

Organisation/Company Fundació Privada I2CAT

Department Internet of Things

Research Field Technology » Internet technology

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Bachelor Positions Country Spain

Application Deadline 30 Apr 2025 - 19:00 (Africa/Abidjan)

Type of Contract Permanent

Job Status Full-time

Hours Per Week 40

Offer Starting Date 5 May 2025

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Other EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

The Internet of Things Research Area at the i2CAT Foundation is looking for an IoT Engineer to work on innovation projects.

The selected candidate will join the IoT group to work in the implementation and development of IoT solutions and prototypes and their evaluation in real environments. The job will offer the possibility to investigate and work in emergent IoT technologies and solutions from a very applied perspective. Concretely, the candidate will collaborate with the group in current projects working in some of the following fields:

• Enhancement of communication and energy consumption capabilities for IoT solutions.
• Implementation of enhanced sensing solutions for Smart Cities.
• Design and implementation of precise tracking and positioning solutions based on IoT technologies such as sensor fusion, RF or Visible Light Communications.
• Development of the future IoT smart environments and sensing solutions capable to exploit intelligence in constrained IoT devices, adapt to the needs of the scenario and improve the overall interaction with the end user.

The main tasks performed by the candidate will be:

• Development and implementation of HW and SW/FW IoT prototypes.
• Deployment of experimental testbeds to validate the prototypes in controlled and real conditions.
• Development of tools and scripts to evaluate and monitor the solutions.
• Writing of technical documentation and project deliverables.
• Collaboration with other researchers and engineers involved in the project.

The candidate person is expected to have the capability to work autonomously and proactively and to demonstrate critical thinking skills.

Minimum Requirements

The candidate has to fulfill the following minimal requirements:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in telecommunications, electronics or IT engineering.
• Proven applied experience of at least 1 year in R&D or professional activities in at least two of the following topics:
  • Hardware design and implementation of functional IoT prototypes.
  • Firmware programming.
  • IoT communication technologies and protocols.
  • Linux embedded systems.
  • Artificial Intelligence applied to constrained devices (e.g., TinyML).
• Proven experience in IoT prototyping and working with IoT development platforms and programming IDEs.
• Proven experience in C/C++ and Python programming.
• Critical thinking skills.
• Capability to work autonomously, proactively and to assume responsibilities.

Specific Requirements

The following requirements will be considered as merits:

• Knowledge of IoT technologies and protocols (especially, UWB, WiFi HaLow, LPWAN and VLC).
• Experience in hardware design software (Kicad, Altium, Eagle...).
• Experience in the deployment of services and applications based on IoT sensors (e.g., ToF, Lidar, cameras, microphones).
• Experience in wireless analysis tools (wireshark, tcpdump, sniffers) and in laboratory equipment (e.g., oscilloscope, power analyser..).
• Experience in data analysis and visualization tools (e.g., R, Python, Excel, Grafana...).
• Interest in doing a MSc or PhD on IoT topics.
• Knowledge of Android/iPhone programming.
• Applied knowledge of AI, NN and ML.
• Experience in computer vision (e.g., OpenCV).
• Previous participation in European or national R&D&I projects.

Languages

ENGLISH Level Excellent

SPANISH Level Excellent

Additional Information

What will you enjoy?

• Work from our offices or from home, whichever works best for you. We only ask for one day in person at the office to coordinate with the rest of the team.
• This is a full-time vacancy.
• We have a flexible work schedule respecting your work-life balance.
• Reduced working hours on Fridays and in July and August.
• Fix + variable salary based on objectives.
• You decide whether you prefer to receive your salary in 12 or 14 payments.
• Optional benefits: Configure your salary according to your needs. We offer you the option of restaurant vouchers, public transport vouchers, nursery services, and medical insurance.
• Annual leave of 27 working days.
• We have fruit in the office to promote a healthy lifestyle.
• Free coffee and tea.
• If you are interested, you can participate in events of your sector.
• You will work with a laptop. You can choose your operating system, Mac, Linux or Windows.
• Company social and team-building events (virtual & in-person).
• You can develop your own and personal training programme with our support.
• We will work so that you have a career plan to promote your growth and development.

Eligibility criteria

Candidates applying are required to submit the following documents: