Principal Firmware Engineer

Purpose:

• Lead Firmware Functions to oversee the realisation of Product specifications through efficient and robust embedded Firmware.
• To own the continued improvement of the embedded development processes to ensure continuous improvement of the quality of our output, and team.
• To facilitate enhanced collaboration with the Validation team to increase understanding and reduce development iterations.
• To ensure development activities conform to our ISO9001 processes and comply with 3rd party certification requirements.

Responsible for:

• Overseeing Internal and external Firmware development activities and outputs.
• Guiding the architectural solutions and approach.
• Defining Statements of work, Specifications and Work packages and maintaining control of the quality of the outputs.
• Owning, co-ordinating and undertaking design reviews & creating reports and associated documentation related to the release of designs.
• Ensuring the team maintains appropriate levels of quality in their work and adheres to the defined processes.
• Establishing, owning and co-ordinating the management of our source code in Github.
• Undertaking root cause analysis of issues and defining approaches for their resolution.
• Owning the Firmware Development Process to ensure compliance to our Business Management System, suggesting and implementing improvements where identified.
• Facilitating enhanced collaboration with the Validation team to increase understanding and reduce development iterations thereby ensuring the timely delivery of projects to the agreed timescales.
• Co-ordinating collaboration with the production team to define and implement functional test code to support the production processes.

Essential Qualifications, Key Skills and Experience:

• B.Sc. in Computer Science or other equivalent engineering discipline.
• At least 10 Years post-graduate experience.
• A Strong process-focussed development approach.
• End to end Firmware development process experience.
• Proficient in C and C++11 , with a good knowledge of its ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of embedded development and object-oriented design principles.
• Extensive working knowledge of the STM32 chipset - M0 > M4.
• Knowledge of KEIL IDE for STM32.
• Experience of developing in FreeRTOS and using stacks.
• A good understanding of XML parsing and data modelling for embedded systems.
• Demonstrable experience of UML Modelling and diagrams.
• Knowledge of TFT LCD display control drivers and GUI development.
• A working understanding of embedded electronics.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (GitHub).
• Strong understanding of RF technologies, ideally experience of developing proprietary protocols.
• Experience in developing firmware for low power safety critical devices.
• A working knowledge of the MISRA C coding standards.

Desirable Qualifications, Key Skills and Experience:

• Good knowledge on IOT based protocols GSM-AT Commands, MQTT and Azure IOT cloud.
• Familiarity with PIC24 IC family and MPLAB IDE.
• Familiarity of the Semtec chipset.
• Agile development tools (JIRA, GitHub).
• C# or VB Application development for Windows.
• Python.