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Great Houghton, West Northamptonshire
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Senior Embedded Software Engineer – Semiconductors – Embedded C, RTOS, Python, Embedded SoC systems – Hybrid. A Senior Embedded Software Engineer with 7+ years’ experience in designing and debugging real-time applications in C and/or C++ will join a thriving Semiconductor Company.

A generous salary will be offered with Hybrid working (3 days in office per week), Shares, 25 days holiday and Private Medical Cover.

The successful Senior Embedded Software Engineer will develop, test and maintain Embedded Software for the company’s new ASIC products; will undertake real-time firmware design on high-speed heterogeneous Soc platforms as well as software design and support for the silicon design infrastructure and workflow.

The Senior Embedded Software Engineer should bring:
• A good Bachelors or Masters Degree in an Electronic related discipline.
• Several years’ commercial experience in Embedded C and/or C++ programming.
• Experience in porting and using RTOS such as Zephyr or FreeRTOS.
• Experience working with Embedded SoC systems using bare metal, RTOS or Linux.
• Proficiency in modern scripting language, ideally Python.
• Solid experience of debugging at application, driver and hardware levels.
• Of particular interest is exposure to high-speed signalling technologies such as PCle; knowledge of Communication protocols and experience of working with Heterogeneous multicore systems.

This new Semiconductor company offers the opportunity to work on the very latest technology, with ongoing training and a multi-Country work force where all staff are greatly valued and provided with a good work – life balance.

You should be currently living in the UK and have full eligibility to work without requiring sponsorship

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