Our client has an exciting career opportunity for a Senior Firmware Design Engineer to work within the R&D department. You will work on a diverse range of innovative security and access control products including IoT devices, wireless products, and embedded devices. They provide a challenging and exciting work environment with scope for personal development and ongoing training.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Working in an Agile development environment,
• Participate in the design, implementation, testing, and optimisation of features on all embedded products in the portfolio,
• Review and refactor code, fix issues, and collaborate with product and application engineering teams to help improve the complete system,
• Create and maintain technical documentation for developed software modules and features,
• Firmware development for product manufacturing test (e.g. test fixtures, PC level test, test procedures, etc.) in order to ensure optimal cost and quality of products supplied by EMS manufacturers,
• Approvals and Compliance – Ensuring firmware modules are designed to comply with relevant standards,
• Stay up to date on new technologies and trends.

Education and Experience:

• Degree in Electronic Engineering or related discipline,
• A minimum of 5 years of work experience in firmware development,
• RTOS experience, Experience with JTAG debugging,
• SCRUM methodology,
• Strong understanding of the Continuous Integration pipeline model and the importance of automation in this,
• Experience working with automation tools: SVN, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and Git,
• High-speed data communication and experience with communication protocols, TCP/IP, RS232, RS485.

Competences:

• Expert skills in “C” and “C++” firmware development,
• Expert skills in development for Linux, 
• Expert skills in Buildroot and Yocto,
• Clear and concise documentation skills,
• Good problem-solving skills and attention to detail,
• Effective communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills,
• A strong team player,
• Very good command of the English language both written and verbal,
• Comfortable working with a team in an Agile environment (Scrum).

Work Requirements:

• Some travel and fieldwork potentially including international travel.