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Our client a leading Multinational Semiconductor Company requires Contract Principal Firmware /Embedded Systems Engineer for 6 month daily rate position based in Cork City, Ireland.
This is 100% Remote role.
Role:
Your main responsibility will be the specification, design, implementation, test and documentation of firmware, running on dual core low-power, lean-resource hardware platforms. You will be a key member of our engineering and operations teams.
Responsibilities include the following:
This is a wide ranging role and your key responsibilities will include:
* Develop optimized Firmware that complements our lean Hardware strategy to achieve the best possible performance for our innovative products.
* Hardware/Firmware contribution to product specification, co-design and partitioning of functionality
* Hardware/Firmware co-simulation, FPGA prototyping (system emulation) and ASIC implementation
* Debug, build test platforms.
* Creation and adaptation of EDA tools required for FW implementation, debug and test
* Track and implement design improvements and version control and develop quality control processes.
Experience:
Successful candidates will have most of the following:
* A degree in Electronics Degree (ideally to a postgraduate level)
* 5-10 years of experience of Firmware development on microcontrollers (ideally in the power electronics industry)
* Hardware expertise (digital, analog, non-volatile and volatile memories)
* Debug of complex semiconductor systems on a chip (SoC's) (ideally in the power electronics industry)
* Demonstrated ability to follow a robust and error-free development and familiarity with Software/Hardware test methodologies
* Strong individual contributor with a strong sense of quality of work
* Experience of working in rapidly growing startup company
* Excellent communications skills with the ability to convey technical concepts in business terms
* The ability to work with cross functional teams to create a fully functional system
* Assembly programming on industry-standard microcontrollers (ARM, MIPS, 80x51, IC/Microchip...) & DSP (TI, ADI, MOT...)
* MATLAB/Simulink (or similar) for high level system simulation
* Cadence (or similar) IC Design tools
* Experience with communication standards and protocols (SPI, I2C, SMBUS, PMBUS, USB, JTAG).
Contact:
For further information please contact Mícheál at Software Placements on 00353 1 5254642 or email micheal@softwareplacements.ie
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Contract
Job function
* Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
* Industries
Semiconductor Manufacturing, Computers and Electronics Manufacturing, and Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
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