Summary
Samsung Cambridge is looking for a bright, enthusiastic Senior Engineer to join the Firmware team developing a world leading Wi-Fi solution for Samsung. The role involves extensive analysis, debugging and fixing of issues by customers and internal test teams. The role also involves design, development and test of firmware modules within WLAN firmware, with a focus on system software rather than protocols.
Samsung Cambridge is looking for a bright, enthusiastic Senior Engineer to join the Firmware team developing a world leading Wi-Fi solution for Samsung.
The role involves extensive analysis, debugging and fixing of issues by customers and internal test teams. The role also involves design, development and test of firmware modules within WLAN firmware, with a focus on system software rather than protocols. The role may also involve enhancement of our existing tool sets to assist and enhance the debugging capabilities.
The software is written in C and runs in a resource constrained, embedded, real time environment and tools are typically written in Python and shell scripting languages.
Responsibilities:
- Embedded firmware design and development
- Analyse and document, system and module requirements.
- Support customer issues and provide timely analysis and solutions.
- Design and document individual modules.
- Participate in cross team system level architectural/design/interface discussions and reviews
- Develop and test (unit, system and acceptance) firmware of major scale and complexity.
- Maintenance of software including defect investigation.
- Contribute actively towards the continuous development of the department’s processes.
- Constantly seeks quality in deliveries; works with lead engineers and project managers to ensure timely delivery of designs.
Required Skills:
- Excellent proven understanding of C programming language for resource constrained real-time environments where MIPS and memory have to be utilised carefully.
- Experience of developing bare-metal embedded software on ARM processors.
- Familiar with working in a Linux-based command line development environment.
- Experience of scripting languages such as Python and Bash.
- Familiarity with “make” build systems and GNU toolchain.
- Good understanding of embedded debug techniques and tools (e.g. Lauterbach Trace32).
- Effective team player and good communicator.
- Able to work efficiently and remotely with minimal supervision.
- Excellent problem solving ability and tenacity in finding root cause for complex issues with focus on delivering results.
- Excellent oral and written communications with attention to detail.
Desired Skills:
- Experience of techniques for communicating between hardware and software.
- Knowledge of embedded multi-processor systems and inter-processor communication techniques.
- Familiarity with ARM Cortex R and M series processors.
- Experience of using debugging tools such as ARM debuggers, analysers and oscilloscopes.
- Experience of debugging hardware issues.
- Experience of real-time operating systems e.g. FreeRTOS.
- Knowledge of processor architectures and peripherals.
- Familiarity with 8051 microcontrollers.
- Understanding of low power designs.
- Understanding of PCIe.
- Exposure to Verilog/VHDL and ability to interpret hardware schematic and PCB layouts.
- Exposure to software debugging in digital simulation environment.
- Exposure to revision control systems (Git preferred).
- Familiarity with Linux kernel and drivers.
- Familiar with working on embedded Linux platforms.
- Familiar with working on Android platforms.
Working with us
Joining our team, you'll receive a great benefits package.
Benefits include:- Annual bonus
- Continued training and development
- Private medical insurance
- Travel insurance
- Life insurance
- Flexible benefits system
- 25 days holiday with the option to buy or sell days
- Great discounts on Samsung products
- Free on-site gym and canteen
We know that the diversity of our team is integral to our continued success. We encourage people to apply from all backgrounds. Please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in this recruitment process and we'll do our best to arrange these if needed.
COVID-19
Samsung Cambridge are following all government guidelines and many of our team still working from home. In the office we have many new safety precautions.
All of our interviews will be online. Your safety and our teams safety is our number one priority.
Office address
St Johns House
Cowley Road
Cambridge
CB4 0DS
