DSP Embedded Software Engineer – Software Defined Radio Datalink
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Stevenage (onsite role) – 6 month duration – Pay rate up to £53.51 p/h PAYE basic (£61.29 p/h including holiday pay) or £70 p/h Umbrella
We are looking to recruit an Embedded Software Engineer to join our defence client in this onsite role based in Stevenage. You will be joining the growing Software team working to develop, test and deliver innovative solutions by exploiting a wide portfolio of software technologies. You will work as part of a small team and be empowered to work individually with little supervision.
You will need to be able to work independently and be self-driven whilst providing some technical leadership. You will need to be very proactive and comfortable working with teams outside of the SW department, and be experienced in Digital Signal Processing techniques (SDR) and able to develop embedded SW in C. To be able to work in a lab based environment using various test tools such as scopes, logic analysers, bespoke test equipment and host based testing.
Responsibilities:
An Embedded Software C Engineer capable of developing, integrating and testing embedded Software
Producing test requirements & test scripts for Unit, Subsystem and System level testing on both host and target platforms
Running tests, analysing results and using target test facilities such as debuggers, probes, logic analysers and oscilloscopes
Documentation and Design work in UML
Integration of software components with ARM multi-core platforms, FPGA subsystems and RF transceiver interfaces
Support real-time TX/RX data processing, buffering and performance optimisation on embedded targets
Contribute to system integration and verification of Software Defined Radio (SDR) datalink capability
Requirements:
Proven ability with Digital Signal Processing and the C Programming Language
Proven ability testing software products for ARM based multi-core processing platforms
Knowledge of communications protocols (e.g. SPI, UART, Ethernet, PCI-Express)
Use of DOORS
Proven ability of test tools and techniques in both host and target environments
Use of test tools such as LDRA or equivalent for host testing
Knowledge of model-based development, either in SysML/UML
Knowledge of Real Time Operating Systems such as PikeOS or FreeRTOS
Understanding of real-time embedded data handling mechanisms such as DMA, interrupts and shared memory
Exposure to wireless modulation or waveform processing concepts (desirable)
Experience working with FPGA or SDR based embedded systems (desirable)
Additional information:
Please note, due to the sensitive nature of the projects involved, all candidates must be capable of gaining a UK MOD Security Clearance to SC level. xsngvjr You will require a live SC before you can start.