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Junior Software Engineer Embedded

Focus Resourcing
Posted 21 days ago, valid for 11 days
Location

Caerphilly, Caerphilly CF83 3AR, Wales

Salary

£25,000 - £35,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

Retirement Plan
Life Insurance

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Sonic Summary

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  • Salary: Not specified
  • Experience required: Junior / graduate level
  • Responsibilities include collaborating with colleagues to develop electronic control and communication software, undertaking diagnostics of components, and providing technical expertise to ensure product compliance.
  • Skills required include experience in designing embedded systems, C programming, serial protocols, and ADC techniques.
  • Desirable skills include experience in RF comms functionality, Modbus protocol, and Windows/Linux development environments.

We are looking to recruit a junior / graduate software engineer into our established growing company. This person will be responsible for the electronic (software) design and development of control and communication systems within the businesses industry sector.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with colleagues to develop electronic control and communication software for new products and refine existing products as part of product enhancement programme.
  • Undertake diagnostics of components to identify problem root causes and implement fixes.
  • Utilise the teams project management methodology to work collaboratively with the team on projects from start to completion, providing expert input into new feature development.
  • Provide support and technical expertise to ensure existing product ranges remain compliant, updating them accordingly where necessary.
  • Ongoing review and optimisation of software designs to identify and implement cost savings and performance improvements. This includes keeping up to date with core industry technologies and advancements.

Skills:

  • Demonstrated experience of designing, analysing and developing embedded systems.
  • Ability to rapidly prototype embedded boards for development e.g. in-circuit emulators.
  • Innovative in thinking with the ability to effectively communicate new ideas with justification from first principles.
  • Strong IT skills with experience of C programming/ assembler (8/16/32 bit platforms).
  • Experience in serial protocols (RS232, RS485, I2C, SPI) and ADC techniques (software filtering etc).
  • Experience of code porting between difference microcontroller architectures.
  • Able to build good working relationships with colleagues and customers.
  • Good organisation and time management skills.
  • Good problem-solving skills.

Desirable:

Experience of RF comms functionality e.g. WiFi/Bluetooth/ISM systems.

Experience of Modbus protocol.

Experience in Windows and Linux development environments.

Experience of Embedded Wizard

Benefits:

Company offers an excellent working environment with superb benefits to include:

Company pension scheme - the company will double your pension contributions to a max of 8% of salary.

Free Life assurance of 5 x P60 earnings

Share save scheme - discounted share purchase plan.

25 days holiday & bank holidays (33 days) - 4 ½ days needed for Christmas shut down.

Subsidised staff canteen

Working hours are Mon - Thurs 09:00 - 17:00 and Fri 09:00 - 16:30 with ½ hour lunch break each day.

6-month standard probationary period

Drug & Alcohol testing standard part of recruitment process.

Car driver.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.