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Research & Development Engineer

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Hail Weston, St. Neots, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

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GBP 40,000 - 46,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

A leading company in energy management systems is looking for an R&D Engineer specializing in Embedded and Linux systems. You will design and develop software and firmware for security and energy management systems, working with ARM processors and mentoring junior engineers. This role offers a competitive salary and various perks.

Benefits

20 days annual leave

Bank holidays

Company pension scheme

Additional annual leave

Mobile phone and laptop

Car purchase scheme

Qualifications

At least four years of experience as a professional embedded engineer.
Experience in interfaces, IP protocols, and hardware subsystems.

Responsibilities

Maintenance of existing embedded firmware & drivers on ARM platforms.
Development of RFID based product and ZigBee for Smart Energy products.
Mentoring junior engineers.

Skills

Problem Solving

Debugging

Real-time Embedded Systems

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Git

SVN

Keil

Linux

Android

The R&D Engineer on Embedded and Linux systems position is a worker role designing and developing the software and firmware of our security systems and building energy management systems Development is in C/C++ and includes maintaining and porting Linux kernels to ARM-based processors, plus also creating custom drivers and applications in C/C++.

The role involves:

Maintenance of existing embedded firmware & drivers on the ARM Cortex A8, Cortex M3 and ARM9 platforms with future development on peripheral rich MCU using Cortex-M family
Work on the embedded firmware supporting TCP/IP Stack, UDP, RS485 and RS232 communications systems with encryption options, data processing of configuration and transaction data
Development of RFID based product
ZigBee development of our Smart Meter and Smart Energy products
Serving as a mentor for junior engineers

You will be joining our existing team.

Requirements

You will be a bright, sharp, enthusiastic person who thrives in being a part of a team creating new and innovative world-beating products. Your required skills are:

Minimum of a bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent
At least four years of experience as a professional embedded engineer
Real-time embedded system design, development, debugging and support
Strong problem solving and debugging skills
Bare board bring-up, low-level drivers, start-up code C and Assembler experience
Fluent in debugging real-time embedded systems
Experience with Git and SVN version control systems
Experience in interfaces, IP protocols, and hardware subsystems
Fluent in Keil, Linux, and Android development systems
Linux kernel and system programming experience
Awareness of deploying software on real-time Operating Systems and ARM-based processing platforms and have an appreciation of firmware and electronics design
Salary of £40,000 - £46,000 per annum(salary depending on experience)
20 days annual leave
Bank holidays
Company pension scheme available
Additional annual leave achievable
Mobile phone and laptop included
Car purchase scheme also available