Cortech Talent Solutions Ltd
Firmware Design Engineer
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Role: 2x Experienced Firmware Design Engineers
Location: Cambridge (Onsite Only)
Salary: Genuinely Competitive, based on experience; well pay for the right talent
We can offer sponsorship
Purpose / Role Overview
The purpose of the role is to deliver complete electronics solutions to meet functional, regulatory, and manufacturing requirements. The ideal candidate would have strong hardware and firmware design skills with prior experience designing commercial products.
We need to make some enhancements to the audio functionality of one of our existing products. This would entail some hardware changes, PCB re-routing, and firmware changes. This needs to be done to a commercial mass production-ready quality.
Ideal Candidate
- Experienced firmware engineer with the capability to pick up required hardware skills
- Must be able to independently design firmware from high-level requirements
- Take full ownership for firmware design
- Ability to understand schematics, use test equipment, and investigate problems
- Willing to learn PCB routing tools and circuit design on the job
Note: We are not looking for Linux developers, application-grade processor experience, web experience, app programming, or FPGA experience. However, all these skills will be beneficial. The fundamental firmware skills we are looking for are bare metal embedded programming experience with 32-bit MCUs.
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- Detailed understanding of microcontroller peripherals down to register level
- Experience writing low-level drivers for SPI / I2C / UART / ADC / PWM /etc.
- Not just someone who has used software frameworks without a thorough understanding of the under-the-hood stuff
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 and simulating circuits, and have a good intuitive understanding of discrete components. You’re organized, methodical, and take pride in doing things well. You love debugging code, troubleshooting circuits, 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 impediments. You are a team player and like bouncing technical ideas with your colleagues.
Main Responsibilities & Accountabilities
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- Take full ownership of embedded firmware development to deliver complete electronics solutions, from concept to final product
- Hand-on roles that involve detailed design, development, and testing of electronics hardware and firmware for all products
- Creation and maintenance of a complete set of design documentation (design notes, source code, software programming instructions, validation and verification documentation, etc)
- Troubleshooting faults at code, component, and system level
- Investigation and root cause analysis of problems and finding solutions
Skills, Knowledge & Competencies
- Experience designing embedded software for commercial products
- Bare metal & RTOS microcontroller software development in C
- Detailed understanding of microcontroller peripherals down to register level
- Experience writing low-level drivers for SPI / I2C / UART / ADC / PWM /etc.
- Able to write non-blocking, clean, maintainable, and reusable code from general requirements
- Experience with IoT technologies & common network protocols (Wi-Fi / BLE / MQTT / etc)
How to Apply
Please send a CV to danni@cortechtalentsolutions.co.uk
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