Firmware Development Engineer

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Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.​

We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.

Job Description

Teledyne Gas Measurement Instruments (Teledyne GMI) is a manufacturer of gas detection equipment. We have a wealth of industry experience across the utilities, oil and gas, marine, nuclear and brewing markets and offer a wide range of innovative gas and flame detection solutions.

Teledyne Gas & Flame Detection uses its global capability, manufacturing excellence and custom engineering to provide end-to-end gas and flame detection solutions for a wide range of hazards worldwide. With an industry-leading, comprehensive portfolio of products and services, our commitment to cross-platform integration provides protection for today and confidence for tomorrow.

Our products are sold through a world class system of knowledgeable distributors, manufacturers' representatives and sales subsidiaries. Our customer commitment does not stop at product delivery but encompasses ongoing services. From custom-designed solutions to unmatched technical support, our gas and flame detection solutions are backed by expert judgment and premier technology that you can trust.

We are recruiting for an embedded firmware development engineer to join our team and work with us to design and develop our products.

Main Responsibilities:

• Design and develop embedded firmware for portable gas detection instrumentation: operational modes, features, gas measurement algorithms and graphical user Interfaces running primarily on the MSP430 family of microcontrollers.

• Develop embedded firmware solutions by studying information needs; product requirements, conferring with users; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle methodologies.

• Develop standardisation of common firmware and software modules that can be used across multiple products to decrease development time.

• Feature enhancements, FW updates, support, and maintenance of existing products.

• Support, maintain and document firmware functionality; document solutions by developing flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, clearly commented code.

• Participates in all aspects of the testing process through; test design, test execution, test review and analysis, witnessing, debugging and fault investigations.

Skills / experience:

• C / C++ / assembler

• Experience of developing firmware targeted for MSP430 microcontroller family architecture and core functional blocks.

• Firmware interfacing to various electronic devices including ADC’s, memories, sensors, LCD controllers, buttons/keypads via I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO interfaces.

• Communications via serial comms, UART, Bluetooth, LoRa, IrDA etc.

• Understanding of scientific principles and technologies related to gas detection is desirable.

• Microsoft Visual studio development environment.

• Windows desktop application development in C# .net framework advantageous.

• Various software development methodologies and code control / repositories.

• Working in an agile/scrum based environment.

Qualifications:

• Honours Degree qualified in Electronic Engineering, Software Engineering or similar with experience in a similar role.

Range of benefits include.

• Salary sacrifice-led pension plan that matches employee contributions up to 7%.

• LIfe assurance cover at the value of four times basic annual salary.

• 25 days holiday per annum plus 9 public holidays. (There is an option to purchase an additional 5 per year).

• Internal reward and recognition scheme linked to internal benefits platform.

• Employee Assistance Programme.

• Comprehensive wellbeing programme that supports employees with their physical, mental and financial health, (Medi-cash).

• Competitive employee discounts platform that provides employees with discounts with leading brands/retailers.

• Cycle to Work scheme.

• Enhanced family-friendly benefits.

• Company sick pay.

Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.

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