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Firmware Design Engineer

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Ireland · Contract · Mid-Senior

Client:


Our client a leading Multinational Semiconductor Company requires Contract Principal Firmware /Embedded Systems Engineer for 6 month daily rate position based in Cork City, Ireland.


This is 100% Remote role.


Role:


Your main responsibility will be the specification, design, implementation, test and documentation of firmware, running on dual core low-power, lean-resource hardware platforms. You will be a key member of our engineering and operations teams.


Responsibilities include the following:


This is a wide ranging role and your key responsibilities will include:


  • Develop optimized Firmware that complements our lean Hardware strategy to achieve the best possible performance for our innovative products.
  • Hardware/Firmware contribution to product specification, co-design and partitioning of functionality
  • Hardware/Firmware co-simulation, FPGA prototyping (system emulation) and ASIC implementation
  • Debug, build test platforms.
  • Creation and adaptation of EDA tools required for FW implementation, debug and test
  • Track and implement design improvements and version control and develop quality control processes.



Experience:



Successful candidates will have most of the following:


  • A degree in Electronics Degree (ideally to a postgraduate level)
  • 5-10 years of experience of Firmware development on microcontrollers (ideally in the power electronics industry)
  • Hardware expertise (digital, analog, non-volatile and volatile memories)
  • Debug of complex semiconductor systems on a chip (SoC's) (ideally in the power electronics industry)
  • Demonstrated ability to follow a robust and error-free development and familiarity with Software/Hardware test methodologies
  • Strong individual contributor with a strong sense of quality of work
  • Experience of working in rapidly growing startup company
  • Excellent communications skills with the ability to convey technical concepts in business terms
  • The ability to work with cross functional teams to create a fully functional system
  • Assembly programming on industry-standard microcontrollers (ARM, MIPS, 80x51, IC/Microchip...) & DSP (TI, ADI, MOT...)
  • Assembler, C, C++, GNU design tools, Version control
  • MATLAB/Simulink (or similar) for high level system simulation
  • Cadence (or similar) IC Design tools
  • Experience with communication standards and protocols (SPI, I2C, SMBUS, PMBUS, USB, JTAG).




Contact:


For further information please contact Mícheál at Software Placements on 00353 1 5254642 or email [email protected]

Key Skills

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simulation c embedded systems prototyping embedded fpga spi dsp
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Posted
Jun 06, 2025
Type
Contract
Level
Mid-Senior
Location
Cork Metropolitan Area

Industries

Semiconductor Manufacturing Computers Electronics Manufacturing Appliances Electrical

Categories

Engineering Information Technology

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