Embedded Product Engineer

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About the business

NewieVentures is a nimble electronic product development consultancy located in the heart of the Hunter Innovation Precinct. We believe in doing what you love and life-long learning.

Our success is due to exceptional communication, a dedication to innovation and customer-centric development. Our speciality is in the Internet of Things (IoT), from PCB design to cloud infrastructure.

Through service to the ecosystem we've built a stellar reputation of worthwhile contribution. Huge demand has presented a key opportunity in the company's growth to expand the engineering team while maintaining the human-first culture that makes us great.

About the role

As an Embedded Product Engineer, you'll be responsible for delivering a variety of product development projects. As a key part of small team, your opportunities for growth will not be constrained by a job description. Depending on your talents and aspirations, you'll be tasked with some or all of the aspects involved in product development:

• client liaison, building rapport and getting to the heart of customer requirements;
• researching solutions to novel challenges in the fields of IoT and related industries;
• advising on emerging technologies with a focus on applicability and fit for purpose;
• detailed design of electronic devices, from PCB to firmware;
• documentation for handover and testing;
• evangelism of the wonderful opportunities that electronics offers the world.

Day to day, you'll be involved in a variety of tasks:

• test and verification of new hardware using oscilloscopes, current monitors and digital analysers;
• development of new firmware features, predominantly using C, on various Cortex-M microcontrollers;
• printed circuit board design and design review using KiCAD and SPICE circuit simulation tools;
• evaluation of commercial product offerings that complement bespoke solutions to customers' needs;
• assembly of test rigs and prototypes using hand tool techniques such as soldering and crimping;
• maintenance and enhancement to custom cloud based data ingestion, processing and visualisation systems using tools such as InfluxDB, Kapacitor, Grafana and Linux shell and Python scripting.
• create and maintain documentation with interface to tools such as Subversion, JIRA, Trello, Slack and AirTable.

Benefits and perks

• Flexible hours - no timesheets! Work around life, don't live around work. NewieVentures benefits from investing in people.
• Brand new electronics workshop facility, in the landmark Hunter Innovation Precinct co-working space, Eighteen04.
• On-site parking, nearby bus and train stations, close to Marketown shops, pubs and cafes. CBD benefits without CBD congestion.
• Fun community outreach programs. Increase your networks and share the love.
• Never stop learning.

Skills and experience

Mandatory:

• Electronics related tertiary education such as Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Mechatronics Engineering degrees.
• At least three years relevant experience.
• Development experience with microcontrollers such as the Cortex-M family from STM, Freescale, Atmel or NXP.
• Proficiency in an embedded firmware environment such as Eclipse, TRUEstudio, Embedded Studio, IAR, MPLABX or Atmel Studio.
• Programming experience in low level languages such as C or Python.

Desirable:

• Proficiency with the Linux command line.
• Familiarity with prototyping tools such as Raspberry Pi and Arduino.
• Knowledge of LPWAN technologies such as Sigfox or LoRaWAN.
• Experience with IoT platforms and tools such as NodeRED, TICK stack, Azure, AWS, Carriots or Ubidots.
• Experience in a consultancy or product development environment.