Embedded Software Engineer

This is a wonderful opportunity to join an existing team of engineers with a broad range of complementary skills and experience. The software team within supports a wide variety of applications from embedded software development on our range of printer products through to enterprise application software that supports the printer manufacturing process. The members of the team have a proven record of being able to adapt to new technologies and languages as the need arises and possess a range of cross over skills that allow the team to operate effectively with the other disciplines in the department when developing and manufacturing an electro-mechanical product.

Primary Purpose

Reporting to the Software Team Leader the Software Engineer will, as part of a team of development engineers, be responsible for software development activities across existing and new projects.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement software from requirements through to production and commercial deployment
• Design, develop, code, test and debug system software
• Review Code and Designs
• Analyse and enhance efficiency, stability and scalability of systems resources
• Maintenance and support on existing software applications
• Support software QA
• Provide post production support
• Interface with other departments within the organisation

Skills and Experience

Required

• Bachelor degree in an Engineering discipline
• Proven post-qualification working experience in embedded software development
• Experience working with bare metal embedded systems and real-time operating systems
• Solid programming experience in C/C++
• Familiarity with software configuration management tools, defect tracking tools and peer review
• Strong personal organisation, documentation and writing skills

Nice to have Skills:

• Hands-on system engineering skills, including fault diagnosis. The software used is used in electromechanical devices so understanding how the different elements interact is important
• Experience with Git
• Strong mathematical skills (at or above A-level, oí equivalent)
• Familiarity with Atlassian tools: BitBucket, Jira and Confluence

Self-Management:

• Assertive, resilient and welcomes change
• Engages interest and participation of others and has a collaboíative approach to working together
• Actively committed to team development
• Is optimistic and self-aware
• Self-motivated, flexible, proactive, and committed
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent attention to detail

People Management

• Lead and/or support technicians and trainee engineers
• Train people within own work group

Relationship Management

• Liaise and communicate with other departments, customers, suppliers, and other service providers
• Be an effective team member, working with supervisor and colleagues to ensure smooth workflow with maximum output