Embedded Software Engineer

Our client is a successful Irish company operating globally with a leadership position in the design and manufacture of home life safety devices. Employing over 1,200 people, the company is headquartered in Shannon, Ireland, occupying a 23,000 m2 campus where all key manufacturing, R&D and commercial functions are located. Overseas sales and marketing subsidiaries are located in the UK, Germany, France, Australia and the USA.

The Company’s success is based on a culture of Quality, Service and Product Innovation over 30 years. R&D is their lifeblood, with sensor technologies at the core of their product advancement. As a global leader in the industry, they are now at the forefront of emerging Cloud-based “Connected Home” and IOT developments.

We offer:

Work in dynamic and innovative business environment with unique cross functional involvement

Exceptional learning and development opportunities through our Apprenticeship, Graduate and Engineering Leadership Programmes

Excellent career advancement opportunities

Prime Midwest location offering unrivalled work-life balance

Inclusive Benefits package

All of Ei’s alarm, sensor & gateway products are powered by embedded software. This software is architected, designed, developed and validated in-house by our Embedded Software team. We want to grow this team. The successful candidate could see their software deployed in 20m products per year!

Embedded software engineers work as part of a multi-disciplinary team collaborating throughout to bring new products and innovations through development and into volume production. Engineers will work with a variety of sensor and wireless technologies to develop ranges of interconnected products.

Reporting to: Head of Embedded Software

As a Software Engineer (Embedded) you will contribute to:

Design & Development of new alarm & IoT sensor products

Design & Development of RF modules to connect these devices

Collaborating with Electronic Hardware, Mechanical, RF and other engineering teams

Bringing the new products & features through in-house validation and external approvals (e.g. RED testing)

Collaborating with the NPI teams to transition the new products & features into high-volume manufacturing

Key Skillsets required

Modular C on micros e.g Microchip PIC, STM32.

Compilers e.g. IAR, XC8

RF protocol development (proprietary, BLE, LORA, Sigfox or other)

SCM e.g. Git

Obsessive about code quality

Good Problem-solving skills

Self-Motivated

Advantageous

Automated QA tools (e.g. LDRA)

Low power design, battery powered products

Familiar with CI/CD pipeline tools e.g. Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Runners

Qualifications

BSc in Electronic Engineering, computer science or a related field, or significant equivalent experience.

3 years minimum experience developing embedded solutions

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