Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Senior Embedded Software Engineer, C++ / Java, Leeds to £55K (Hybrid working)
A leading technology firm is requiring a highly skilled and enthusiastic Senior Embedded Software Engineer with experience of working with embedded OS based systems (Linux and Android) C++ or Java, to join a small but growing team of highly skilled innovation minded engineers.
You will have the opportunity to bring something new to the team whilst giving you the chance to expand your own skillset through close work with our engineers - who collectively, have skills covering the whole software and hardware stack.
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.
Job Description
• Architecting and development of embedded systems, software and drivers to configure and control video processing products.
• 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.
Candidate Specification
Essential Skills:
• 7+ years of 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 working with Linux and/or Android in an embedded system.
• Some experience of system design and architecting.
• Some knowledge and understanding of raw video timing standards.
• We need a good Team player with the ability to work within a multi-cultural, inter-disciplinary team.
• Competent in using Microsoft Applications, Word, Excel, Power point and Outlook
Desirable Skills:
• 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 Bash-script 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