Senior Firmware/Software Engineer

LOCATION: Dundee, UK

Contract: 9-12 months Inside IR35 through Umbrella

Rate : As per the Market

POSTION SUMMARY & KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:

These challenging positions are to work as part of a small team in Dundee and with other facilities and suppliers in the design, evaluation, test, and support of devices used in self-service products such as ATMs (Auto-Teller Machines for the Banking Industry). A key requirement is to have several years’ firmware/software design experience with a keen interest in the design of electro/mechanical systems operating under software or firmware command & control.

Main responsibilities shall include, but will not be restricted to:

• Design, develop and document firmware and software drivers controlling embedded real time devices.

• Design, develop and document test procedures and software to validate functionality.

• Software unit test and supporting integration and systems testing.

• Regular progress reporting on schedule, quality & size of change

• Small team leadership

• Project planning & status reporting to management

Basic Qualifications:

• A Degree in a Software\Computer\Electronics Engineering (Hons 2:1 or better preferred). Electronics degree requires significant programming experience.

• Minimum 10 years of experience developing embedded real time firmware (C++ preferred)

• 32-bit microprocessor experience. (ARM preferred)

• 8/16-bit microcontroller experience.

• VxWorks or FreeRTOS or uC/COS-II(-III) RTOS

• Developing PC\Device application-level software (Linux, Android or Windows) C++, C#, VB, Java or C

• USB knowledge

• Python

• Software design and methodologies – Object Orientated

• Software configuration management