Location: Chelmsford | Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum |
Sector: Engineering | Specialism: |
Type: Permanent | Contact: Matt Henocq |
Principal Hardware / Software Engineer
Company Overview:
My client is a global leader in specialised components and subsystems for innovative solutions in medical, science, aerospace, defence and industrial applications.
Their products are everywhere, hospitals, planes, ships and even outer space, but you will only see them if you know where to look.
Position Summary and Responsibilities:
Understands how to breakdown a design into its component disciplines whilst understanding the trade-offs and the consequences of a given architecture.
Capture of customer requirements/expectations and incorporation in the design process and validation
Design systems which use embedded software/hardware/Windows based application software to meet performance characteristics and to ensure quality, reliability and the product's life meets or exceed customer expectations
Capable of adopting a structured approach to design (methodology) for maintainability, transferability and simplicity (aid de-bugging).
Defines technical content and resource requirements of design tasks/work packages on projects, identifying key risks, mitigation strategies
Designs and implements well-structured embedded and application software (C, C# and C++)
Qualifications:
A strong background in Electronic Hardware design for products
Experience of analogue circuit design
Experience of digital circuit design
Experience of designing and managing the layout of Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs)
High-Level programming design experience
Significant experience in developing maintainable C/C++/C# code from the ground up and enhancing established code bases
Strong understanding of Object-oriented principles for programming language such as C#, Java etc.
Experience - developing user interfaces
Experienced in the partitioning of software & hardware within an architecture taking into account testability, maintainability etc.
Ability to work individually or as part of a multi-disciplined team
Ability to create clear, concise, maintainable and verifiable technical specifications, APIs, interface specifications and integration guides
Experience of product qualification
Capable of obtaining UK SC - Security Clearance
Desired Qualifications:
A degree or higher in Electronic Engineering, IEng, CEng, or an equivalent level of experience together with further education in applicable subjects will be considered.
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