Senior Embedded Software Engineer

IONATE is a deep tech scale-up building the hardware and software backbone for smart grids. We're looking for a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to design and implement production C/C++ firmware, working with our hardware and systems team.

Requirements

• A degree in electronics, embedded systems, software engineering, or related discipline, with demonstrated industrial experience.
• Industrial experience building real-time embedded systems – developing, shipping and supporting firmware in complex products, from prototype through to deployment.
• Solid understanding of real-time and deterministic embedded software design principles.
• Demonstrable experience of working on embedded software projects using C/C++.
• Mastery of C language and its underlying implementation cost function.
• Proven experience developing bare-metal and RTOS applications, managing interrupt priorities and latency budgets, and debugging race conditions and timing issues in deployed real-time systems.
• A firm grasp of interrupt handling, inter processor communications and synchronisation mechanisms.
• Good knowledge of performance optimisation techniques and hardware/software interaction.
• Strong communication and written skills.
• Willingness to travel nationally and internationally for testing/commissioning when required.

Benefits

• Employee Option Plan: equity in IONATE
• Private Medical & Dental Insurance
• Company pension
• Career Development
• Flexible working schedules
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Slow travel