Senior Firmware Engineer

Summary about this job

Detail information about job Senior Firmware Engineer. Terms and conditions vacancy

• State-of-the-art engineering development facility
• Salary + Super + Parking on-site + Bonus + Laptop & Phone
• Management training, learning and development

• Competitive packag e + Bonus structure
• LEADING AUSTRALIAN ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURER

GME designs, engineers, manufactures and distributes world-class radio communication equipment including; two-way radio communications, marine electronics, emergency locator beacons, telemetry and data radio products.

This is a rare opportunity for a Senior Firmware Engineer to take on a lead role in the Engineering Department. The successful candidate will have the following skills & attributes to be successful:

Basic Comp-Sci / Software Engineering Skills

• Have gone through the software development lifecycle on a number of commercial projects.
• Have developed C and C++ based applications in a commercial context.
• Understand workings of a microcontroller at low level, registers, memory, busses, interrupts, etc.
• Have used assembly language, or at least, know how to interpret simple snippets of assembly.

Firmware-Specific Skills

• Knowing an embedded development toolchain inside-out. Have developed some commercial applications with the toolchain.
• Knowing an embedded microcontroller framework inside-out. Have developed some commercial applications based on a pre-existing framework.
• Knowing a microcontroller family in-depth - peripherals, memory model, capabilities, etc.
• Knowing common embedded comms standards in-depth: UART, I2C, SPI, ...
• Knowing other common MCU peripherals in-depth: ADC, DAC, DMA controllers, PWM, GPIO
• Knowing how to problem-solve without a debugger: logging, GPIO, root cause analysis for failures
• Knowing how to exploit microcontroller strengths, e.g. how to write very low power solutions or high-speed real time, etc.

Real Time Software Skills

• Know how to devise a real-time firmware architecture: draw up a data flow diagram, define the threads/tasks and the communications between them, etc.
• Know how to design software to soft and hard real-time constraints.
• Know when to use a single loop (cyclic executive) architecture and when to use a Real-Time Operating System
• Know how to use a microcontroller oriented Real Time Operating System. Have used an RTOS in a commercial project, such as FreeRTOS, Keil RTX, etc.

Digital Signal Processing Skills

• Knowing how to design and implement common signal processing algorithms: FIR, IIR, FFT, etc. Have developed some of these in a commercial project.
• Knowing how to design and implement signal processing on fixed point power constrained processors.
• Good grasp of tools used for design and evaluation of algorithms: Matlab, Octave, SciPy, or similar.
• Background in telecommunications, or another field that uses signal processing heavily.

Electronics Engineering Skills

• Hands-on hardware skills - as below:
• At least technician-level use of test equipment - multimeters, CRO's, logic analysers.
• Knowing how to read schematic diagrams.
• Ideally, at least bachelor's degree in EE or equivalent experience. 

We expect a detailed cover letter addressing how you have met the above criteria.  Please also note what experience you lack or are limited in.  

The Benefits;

We offer numerous staff benefits and benefits bespoke to the role, they are as follows:

• Competitive salary package with bonus
• Mentor and develop other engineers
• State-of-the-art engineering development facility 
• Work with a product that is designed & built on-site
• Company Laptop
• Bonus structure
• Management training, learning and development
• Annual leave & Flexible Workplace

We are looking for the best of the best; if you have read this advert you suit the criteria but more importantly, if the opportunity resonates with you please do not hesitate to "APPLY NOW".