Firmware Engineer - Embedded Software - 3 Month Contract
- Recruiter
- Recruitment Genius Ltd
- Location
- Leicester
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 25 Jul 2017
- Closes
- 30 Jul 2017
- Sectors
- Engineering
- Contract Type
- Contract
- Hours
- Full Time
The Company
This company are pioneers in embedding washable electronics into a varied range of intelligent clothing with over 40 granted patents in the area of smart fabric technology. They have a strong knowledge and know how in sensor integration into garments with in house expertise in electronics, software and smart garment development.
The company already licences its embedded electronics technology and solutions to some of Europe's largest PPE garment manufacturers, and manufactures and sells its own ranges of industrial garments around the world through its own Visijax brand and through retailers such as Halfords. It has distributors in the UK, USA, France, Canada, Australia and Switzerland. The company sits at the convergence of electronics, garments and data.
This company is on the way to producing an end to end solution by developing smart garments with intelligent sensors and control box which communicate with an IoT platform and dashboard to provide meaningful information from the data generated.
Purpose of Job
To design, develop, test and maintain production quality firmware using the necessary development tools for the range of microcontrollers and embedded systems used across the company's product portfolio.
Person Specification - Skills Required
- Expert programming experience with full project life cycle with expertise in programming in C, C++ languages whilst also having a sound knowledge of electronic circuits.
- Experience of working with I2C, SPI, Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy protocols.
- Experience of programming Nordic, ST microcontrollers and other 32 bit microcontrollers e.g. Arm, Microchip.
- Experience in interfacing with the web servers and web APIs
This company are pioneers in embedding washable electronics into a varied range of intelligent clothing with over 40 granted patents in the area of smart fabric technology. They have a strong knowledge and know how in sensor integration into garments with in house expertise in electronics, software and smart garment development.
The company already licences its embedded electronics technology and solutions to some of Europe's largest PPE garment manufacturers, and manufactures and sells its own ranges of industrial garments around the world through its own Visijax brand and through retailers such as Halfords. It has distributors in the UK, USA, France, Canada, Australia and Switzerland. The company sits at the convergence of electronics, garments and data.
This company is on the way to producing an end to end solution by developing smart garments with intelligent sensors and control box which communicate with an IoT platform and dashboard to provide meaningful information from the data generated.
Purpose of Job
To design, develop, test and maintain production quality firmware using the necessary development tools for the range of microcontrollers and embedded systems used across the company's product portfolio.
Person Specification - Skills Required
- Expert programming experience with full project life cycle with expertise in programming in C, C++ languages whilst also having a sound knowledge of electronic circuits.
- Experience of working with I2C, SPI, Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy protocols.
- Experience of programming Nordic, ST microcontrollers and other 32 bit microcontrollers e.g. Arm, Microchip.
- Experience in interfacing with the web servers and web APIs