Firmware Design Engineer

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]