About 42T

42 Technology is a successful and growing consultancy specialising in innovation, design, and development. Our work with world leading clients in a range of industries takes products and processes from ideas to reality. We have built a reputation for challenging the status quo and finding creative and pragmatic solutions to difficult technical problems.

Our employees love the variety and challenge of our work. We have a stimulating and open culture, an excellent team, and a great location in the historic town of St. Ives, close to Cambridge.

The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer with an innovative mindset to join the Software Development group at 42T. You will contribute to 42T’s client projects across different sectors that have electronics and/or software content. 

Main Duties/Key Responsibilities:

• Delivery of high quality engineering consultancy services to our clients along with colleagues from across the business, to understand customer requirements and define solutions that meet these requirements.
• Development of firmware for embedded products and systems employing wired or wireless communications, sensors, user interfaces and control.
• Mentoring junior colleagues on creative technical solutions and best practices.
• Software development in C.
• Development on both bare metal platforms and with embedded OS such as FreeRTOS & Linux.
• Definition of software system architecture, functional requirements, features and use cases.
• Development of high-quality code for production systems.
• Building in software quality from the outset through design, implementation and the use of appropriate tools and processes.
• Working with multidisciplinary teams to take products from initial concept through to delivery / transfer to manufacture.
• Enhancing 42 Technology’s software development capability.
  

About You

Essential:

• Development of firmware for embedded products using C.
• Ability to read and interpret analogue and digital electronic schematics.
  
• Competent in using electronic test equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analysers.
  
• A thorough understanding and experience of the processes and tools needed to develop maintainable high quality embedded firmware.
• Capable of working to requirements defined by project technical leads.
  
• Capable of defining and structuring a programme of software development work to meet project objectives.
  
• Good verbal and written skills including report writing and presenting technical content to colleagues and clients.
• Ability to discuss software technical terms and content in a way that is understandable to colleagues and clients from other disciplines.
• Attention to detail.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Interest in embedded technologies.
• Motivated by the desire to produce high quality work.
• Flexible approach to changing work tasks.
• Openness to other’s ideas and approaches.
• Desire to learn and grow.