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Senior/Principal Software-Firmware Engineer

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Senior / Principal Software-Firmware Engineer | Cambridge | Onsite | up to £80k DOE

Are you an experienced Software/Firmware Engineer with Low Level & Bare Metal experience? Do you have experience in the Automotive and/or Medical Devices sector? Do you want to join a scaling company working on the cutting edge of Sensor technology?

Then this might just be the role for you!

We are working with an industry leading sensor company who are looking to onboard a Senior/Principal Software/Firmware Engineer to assist on some critical projects within the Automotive and Medical Devices sector.

Responsibilities/Requirements:

Experience writing compliant firmware with ISO 9001:2015 (QMS), IEC 62304:2006 (Medical Devices) and/or ISO 26262:201 (Vehicle Safety).
Working in a multidisciplinary team of Test, Hardware Applications and Data Science Engineers.
Requirements capture & analysis.
Design and develop functional code alongside existing architecture.
Implement new sensing applications alongside Data Science team.
Firmware design & code reviews, testing, debugging & documentation.
Building firmware for different target processors and application design variants.
Development of bare metal, real-time firmware in C for ARM-based microcontrollers or ASICs.
Experience with ADCs, DACs and interfaces such as SPI, I2C and CAN.
Experience with STM32 and/or EFM32.
Experience with JTAG, Keil, IAR, STM32CubeMX and Eclipse/gnu.
Experience with automate3d testing for multiple targets.
Programming experience with Python. 
What’s in it for you?

Up to £80k DOE.
Up to 10% bonus (company and personal performance).
3% employer pension contribution.
Bupa Cash Plan.
Private Medical insurance.
Group Life Insurance (up to 4 x salary).
25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
Support for relocation

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