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Personnel Futures Ltd
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Hockley, Essex
Embedded Software Engineer
Overview
Degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science 2:1 with strong element of Embedded Electronics. Knowledgeable in theory and strong industrial design experience excellent track record of designs in the field that cover the following: Ø Support the development of the manufacturing business Ø Embedded Software design and development for Products according to company procedures and regulatory standards Ø Create and maintain product definition information in accordance with company procedures Ø Review, analyse and approve the product design Ø Compile technical documentation required by design control procedures to support the design process Ø Assist with the management of work packages for new product development and product improvement projects Ø Use technical and product knowledge and problem solving abilities to support other team members and other departments . Essential Skills & experience: Systematic approach to design software for mechatronic systems with theoretical and practical understanding of interactions between mechanics, electronics and software with respect to real time control and dynamics Extensive use of model based design tools that include modelling of plant covering several domains (electrical, mechanical , fluid ) using Simscape , resultant simulation in simulink , design of digital controllers to optimally control the plant simulation and realisation of the controller algorithm on 32 bit microcontrollers in hardware and C code using MATLAB/Simulink embedded coders Life safety critical software design – including redundancy, watchdog timers, deterministic graceful failure modes. BLDC 3 phase motor control algorithm design including Field Orientated Control (FOC) methods Software implementation of Digital Control system design – including PID loops, pole placement, bode design, digital compensator design Programming of various Microcontrollers – ideally including Microchip dsPIC33, ARM Cortex M3, Texas instruments C2000 32 bit microcontroller with a focus on optimisation for real time closed loop motor control & sensing Software to handle various communications including– I2C, SPI, UART, USB, Ethernet etc Software to handle Sensor processing including – temperature, flow, pressure, speed, force, torque, vibration etc Working knowledge and application of V development cycle including software validation & verification • Team player being able to work in a multi disciplined team including electronics, electrical, software , mechanical & manufacturing engineers • Full product development lifecycle from concept to manufacturing • Real time control system design • RTOS based programming – eg freeRTOS, safeRTOS • bare metal C coding without RTOS. • Interrupt handlers & schedulers • Combination of C and assembler for optimising speed/memory usage • C programming - test code to exercise and run up hardware diagnostics • low level interfacing with Windows drivers • Working with device drivers - I2C, SPI, UART, Ethernet, CAN Ideal Skills & Experience • Software interfacing with various communication hardware eg CAN, FlexRay • Knowledge of Industrial/medical regulations & standards and impact on software design - IEC62304 • Working knowledge and application of risk assessment driven and resultant DFMEA to produce robust & safe embedded electronics controls. • Low level programming – Assembler 8, 16, 32 bit • low level interfacing with Linux drivers This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/89954692