Role: Experienced Firmware Design Engineer

Experience: At least 3-5 years of industrial experience in firmware design.
Location: Cambridge

Salary: Up to £70,000

Purpose / Role Overview

The purpose of this role is to design, develop, and deliver production-ready firmware for products, ensuring compliance with functional, regulatory, quality, and manufacturing requirements.

The ideal candidate will possess strong firmware design and development skills, with a proven track record of delivering firmware for commercial products from concept through to production.

Who You Are

We’re looking for a motivated and passionate person who has a strong interest in embedded software. You enjoy writing code, building quick prototypes and you have a good working knowledge of electronics circuits.

• You’re organized, methodical and take pride in doing things well.
• You love debugging code, probing signals and always seek to understand the fundamental reason when things don't work.
• You are capable of developing code from either a blank slate or building on an existing codebase.
• You understand the need for good documentation and don't see it as an impediment.
• You are a team player and like bouncing technical ideas with your colleagues.

Main Responsibilities & Accountabilities

• Full ownership of all embedded firmware development activities to deliver complete firmware solutions, from concept to final product.
• This is a hands-on role that involves requirements capture, code development & firmware testing.
• Ability to generate detailed software requirements from high level product level features. This primarily includes working with non-technical stakeholders to capture intent and translate those to detailed requirements.
• Troubleshooting faults at code, and system level. Investigation and root cause analysis of problems and finding solutions.
• Continuous design improvement of existing products, to achieve performance improvements, cost-down targets and part obsolescence management.
• Creation and maintenance of a complete set of design documentation, including requirements document, software design document, software programming instructions, validation and verification documentation, etc).
• Provide technical support to the Manufacturing, Quality, Repairs and Customer Services functions.
• Evaluation of new technologies relevant to product development and generally keeping up to date with developments in technology and regulations.
• Working together with electronics hardware engineers to deliver complete electronics solutions for products.