Staff Firmware Engineer

Staff Firmware Engineer

ADI - Analog Devices

Limerick, Ireland

This position presents significant opportunities for the successful candidate to grow his/her technical and professional skills as part of a highly motivated, hands-on, leading edge development team. This requires an energetic and motivated individual with strong combination of software knowledge, excellent communication skills, and a willingness to work in a dynamic environment with teams across multiple sites to achieve ground-breaking results.

Key responsibilities include:

• Working with design to learn how the silicon works to a level including simulation.
• From customer documents agree Firmware requirements with the customer.
• Provide and justify detailed firmware design with the customer.
• Provide a coding solution which minimises power usage.
• Create, document, and maintain firmware testing in order to fulfil a 100% code coverage report.
• Provide detailed support documentation as required by the customer.
• Create, document, and maintain system level python applications which test the firmware and hardware.

Essential Skills:

• 10 yrs. plus experience in Arm Cortex-M embedded software development.
• First class honours Degree in Electronic or Electronic & Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• Strong interest and experience in the overall software development process, including Requirements gathering, Software Design, Coding, Testing, Distribution, and maintenance of software solutions.
• Strong interest and experience in firmware development and testing across a variety of software languages such as C, C++, python.
• Experience with hardware design and development, schematic, debug, and standard test equipment.

Useful Skills:

• Understand customer value and be able to express this in a requirement specification.
• Experience using Jenkins CI server, bug tracking tools such as Jira and collaborative tools such as Confluence and Windows Teams.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to develop and articulate system requirements internally or with a customer.
• Comfortable with the development of technical communications such as application notes, articles etc.
• Ability to develop and deliver demonstration software for products and applications.