Senior Firmware Engineer

Senior Firmware Engineer

North East, United Kingdom

I am delighted to be working with a global leader in radiation detection technology for the appointment of a Senior Firmware Engineer. This client develops handheld products for medical, nuclear, defence, and security sectors with a varied range. 

They are now looking to expand their Firmware team and are looking for a Senior Firmware Engineer on a permanet, full time on site basis.

Key Responsibilities:

• Developing & enhancing handheld products
• Requirements gathering
• Firmware design, development and testing
• Software configuration management
• Working as part of a multi-discipline team

Key Skills & Competencies:

• Good problem-solving skills, able to work on own initiative and as part of a team
• Able to collaborate to support hardware design and development
• Able to easily pick up new technologies

Education/ Experience

Essential

• Strong Arm Cortex M4 bare-metal and RTOS embedded C firmware development
• Experience of communication technologies including Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and USB
• Experience developing peripherals including I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO, ADC

Desirable

• IAR EWARM development environment
• NXP M4 and crossover processors
• Knowledge and experience of battery technology and management in handheld products
• Processor power saving modes
• Experience of working with radiation
• Embedded Linux and Yocto
• Motor control systems
• C++ and python

Benefits package

• Life assurance 3 x salary
• Share options vesting over 3-year period
• 25 days holiday (pro-rated) + statutory days
• Pension scheme
• Option to join the private medical scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Medicash – Cash plan scheme to cover things such as prescription charges, routine dental and optical charges
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free parking

If you are interested in this role please submit your CV below.