Job Description
Salary: Up to £55,000 depending on experience
Location: New Mills, GL12 8JR (Global HQ)
Hybrid working: Minimum 1 day per week onsite
About us
As an Embedded Software Engineer at Renishaw, you’ll be responsible for the analysis, design, development, and integration of firmware across a range of our Laser Calibration products.
Using proprietary technology, our range of Laser Calibration products set the benchmark in accuracy for thousands of engineering processes and systems ranging from CNC machining to the manufacture of advanced semiconductors and are recognised as the gold standard in the market.
You’ll be part of our team, using Agile methodologies, DevOps practices and collaborative software engineering tools. You’ll gain specific domain knowledge and be actively involved in the state-of-the-art technology solutions from R&D projects. You’ll also have the opportunity to develop mobile and desktop applications using C# and other technologies.
About you
1. Qualified to degree level in Software Engineering or Electronics Engineering, or related field
2. Hands-on experience working with microcontrollers and low-level protocols
3. Passionate for developing product firmware with embedded C
4. Experience in test-driven development / behavioural-driven development to ensure firmware quality
5. Proficient in using RTOS and multithreaded techniques for embedded applications
6. Knowledge of tools such as IAR, CLion, Eclipse, MCUExpresso, various Microsoft and Embedded IDEs, Enterprise Architect, and Atlassian suite
7. Experience in designing electronic solutions, from schematic to PCB layout, bringing concepts to life through prototyping, and testing with EDA tools like Altium and Zuken
About the role
8. You’ll craft the architecture of firmware and implement new embedded protocols for our products to verify and calibrate machine tool performance across a range of industries
9. Develop comprehensive unit and integration tests for your firmware to meet the standards required for high quality product performance
10. Conduct meticulous design and code reviews for your own work and with junior members of the team, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement
11. Collaborate with project and product managers to define product specifications that align with customer requirements
12. Partner with electronics engineers to optimise system engineering
13. Guiding junior engineers through complex technical challenges and supporting their professional development
Person Specification
As a Senior Embedded Software Engineer here at Renishaw, you’ll strive towards continuous improvement to enhance processes and practices and you’ll enjoy collaborating within a multi-disciplinary team. Solving complex engineering problems will be of interest, where you have to create innovative solutions to tackle intricate challenges. You’ll be eager to learn, apply new knowledge to your everyday with a system-based thinking approach. You’ll also have an eye for detail, paying particular attention to the quality of work you produce.
Benefits
When you join Renishaw, we're committing to your future career. That's because we believe in developing our people's skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that's highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, *subsidised onsite restaurants and *coffee shops, free parking, *car sharing scheme and *24 hour fitness centres. (*not available at our Castle Donington, Exeter, York & Edinburgh sites).
We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join BUPA Renishaw Health Trust and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.
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Employment Type:
Permanent
Time Type:
Full time
Requisition Number:
R6877 Senior Embedded Software Engineer (Open)