Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Primary location: Portishead office

Working hours: 37.5hrs

Hybrid working available: Yes

Salary Competitive

• Would you like to be part of pioneering projects that will shape the future of technology?
• Are you looking to lead complex electronic projects?
• Do you want to develop you career with a unique and growing technology company with has a global reach?

Viper Innovations Ltd provide innovative high-end engineering products and service solutions for the Global Subsea Oil & Gas and UK Rail Industries. We are the winners of the Innovation & Technology award at The Business Leader Awards Ceremony 2022 and partners with IET (The Institution of Engineering and Technology).

The Role:

We are looking for an experienced and highly skilled Senior Embedded Software Engineer to join our Hardware Solutions Team.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Work as part of the Embedded Software Team.
• Undertake software architecture, definition, design and development, review and approval, testing and modification of embedded software products in support of the company’s research and development activities and commercial deliveries.
• Sustain the Viper standard of design excellence and innovation.
• Produce technical documentation in accordance with company procedures. Guide best practices in technical documentation for the team.
• Coordinate, plan and manage work activities to be undertaken by self and/or others. Provide support and mentoring to less experienced engineers.

What We Are Looking For:

• Proven strong technical and people leadership.
• Batchelors’, Masters’ in Electrical/ Electronics/ Software/ Computer Science.
• Proven Embedded Software architecture design and implementation experience.
• Proficiency in C, C++, and scripting languages.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Software design, development, maintenance, debugging and testing for ARM microprocessors and STM32 microcontrollers.
• Embedded application development for high reliability and high availability systems.
• Working knowledge of embedded operating systems, Linux / UNIX and RTOS families.
• Extensive usage and understanding of microcontroller peripherals for data acquisition and control, for example: USB, I2C, SPI, UART, DMA, I2S, ADC, and DAC.
• Extensive usage and understanding of firmware application development for communication interfaces, including Ethernet, RS485, RS232, CAN, and LCD.
• Understanding and usage of communication protocols, including TCP/IP, Modbus RTU / TCP, and CANBus.
• Good communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively within a team to champion quality.

Desirable, but not essential:

• Understanding and usage of IoT communication protocols, including MQTT.

What's in it for You?

• 26 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to buy or sell 5 additional days)
• Comprehensive private medical healthcare scheme
• Life assurance
• Attractive contributory pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme/volunteering scheme/electric car scheme available
• Hybrid & flexible working arrangements: We offer a balanced hybrid working model, with three days based in the office and two days working remotely. Our flexible working hours include core hours from 10am to 3pm, allowing employees to structure their start and finish times.
• Profit-related bonus to celebrate the company’s successes

If you are passionate about technology, and embedded software engineering and want to be part of an exciting and innovative team, we’d love to hear from you!

For more information, please email careers@viperinnovations.com or click 'Apply' to submit your application and be a part of Viper Innovations journey.

Note on Sponsorship: We regret to inform you that at this time, we are unable to offer sponsorship for work authorisation for this role. Therefore, candidates must possess valid authorisation to work in the UK without requiring visa sponsorship.