Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Glasgow

Nine Twenty Technology has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced 'Senior Embedded Software Engineer' to join our well known Medical device manufacturing client on a permanent basis. This is a very exciting time to be joining the business and be an integral part of the Software Engineering team, with a company that is going through a rapid period of growth & have a successful name on the marketplace. 

As a Senior Embedded Software engineer, you will be reporting to the tech lead & joining a well established team. This is a 100% hands on position where you will be involved with all aspects of development. 

Key areas: 

• Design, coding and unit test; to integrating the software with the hardware target, laboratory-based acceptance test, delivery and maintenance.
• Work closely with Software QA developers to ensure they develop tests to adequately verify all development activities.
• Create and maintain a software system that allows the effective set up of experiments, captures experimental data and allows review and analysis of the experimental data.
• Assist in prototype board debug providing problem analysis, test code if required and solution options.
• Store all software source code, build instructions and special/tools or utilities needed to accomplish the above in a suitably organised GitHub repository.
• Define and execute the required unit testing verification activities needed to demonstrate the software design has met specification

Skills and experience required for the role: 

• Degree qualified
• Development experience as part of scrum team and a working knowledge of agile principles.
• Highly proficient in embedded C
• Experience with; 16/32-bit Microcontrollers, RTOSs, multi-threaded and multi-processor systems, communication protocols (SPI, I2C, TCP/IP)
• Knowledge of interrupt handling, bootloaders, flash operations and peripheral programming.
• Practical experience and in-depth knowledge of an IDE and JTAG debuggers/programmers
• Use of defect and task tracking software e.g. Jira
• Experienced with version control systems (SVN / GIT)
• An understanding of balancing technical development with business requirements and schedules
• Experience in the development and execution of Unit Testing
• Experienced in the use of Static Analysis tooling.

Nice to have: 

• Linux as a development target
• Qt, C#, Python
• Arm Cortex processor family
• Practical experience and expertise in interfacing software to electronics

To be considered for this role, please apply today or call Sophie at Nine Twenty for more information 07775 380 860