Embedded Software Engineer

Embedded Software Engineer Leeds City Central competitive salary depending on experience

Hybrid working 3 days in office/ 2 days from home.

Must have experience of working with embedded OS based systems (for example Linux, Android) to join a small but growing team of highly skilled innovation minded engineers. Our team researches, designs and manufactures high end AV products and maintain a very high degree of control over both hardware and software, from the low-level DSP algorithms through to the User Interface and control systems.

The successful candidate must have experience of developing products on an embedded Linux and/or Android platform and ideally from a background involving the development of video management and processing products.

Responsibilities:

• Development of embedded systems, software and drivers to configure and control video processing products and contributing to design and architecture.
• Porting existing components and services from other projects.
• Unit / Automated Test development to ensure quality.
• To imaginatively tackle sometimes loosely defined problems.
• Work as part of an international team to evaluate and implement new features and system requirements.
• Support Hardware and FPGA teams with verification tasks.
• Occasionally may need to support SW Team Lead with project reporting, tracking and team management with the potential for career progression in this area.

Core Competencies:

• Experience of developing products on an embedded Linux and/or Android platform
• Background experience involving the development of video handling and process products.
• Familiar coding skills in C++, C, Java, Android and Linux
• Team working and knowledge sharing.
• Excellent communication skills are a must with the ability to deliver high levels of internal support.
• Excellent interpersonal skills are required while working within a small team.
• The ideal candidate needs to be self-motivated, reliable, disciplined and hard working with the willingness and ability to learn new skills and working practices.

Essential:

• Software Engineering experience.
• BSC, BEng in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• Excellent OOP skills for design and implementation.
• Excellent coding skills in C++, C, Java.
• Experience of developing software for embedded systems.
• Some experience of system design and architecting.
• Some knowledge and understanding of raw video timing standards.

Desirable:

• Ability to work on multiple levels of the Android stack, from BSP and drivers to apps and frameworks.
• Experience with TCP/IP network programming and debugging.
• Scripting experience especially Bashscript and Python.
• Experience with various UI frameworks and technologies for embedded and mobile platforms such as Qt, HTML5, JavaScript, Android Studio are a real bonus.
• Hardware level debug skills and an ability to read schematics.
• Low-level device driver experience for interfacing with hardware I/O and processing chips over PCIe, I2C and SPI.
• Android TV, Video Streaming, HDMI / HDCP, Wireless Communications
• Version Control experience – GIT / SVN
• ARM based platform development.