Embedded Software Engineer

DESCRIPTION

VPG has a long history of innovation, specifically in precision foil resistors and foil strain

gauges. This served as a foundation to expand into strain gauge instrumentation, load

cells, transducers, weighing modules and complete systems for process control and on-

board vehicle weighing.

VPG has facilities and operations in 13 countries, with more than 30 sites and over 2700

colleagues across the globe we recognise it is our talented people that are key in

ensuring we successfully achieve our business aims.

We have a vacancy for an all-round Embedded Software/Firmware Engineer to play a

key role in the development of the next generation of our company’s products.

The role:

The successful candidate will be responsible for the design, development and

implementation of software/firmware solutions for a new product range as well as the

maintenance of existing products as necessary.

This great Embedded Software Engineer opportunity means you will be predominantly

working within a small on-site team situated in our large office space between Bradford

and Shipley. With occasional customer visits for review and project meetings within the

UK and overseas.

Key Responsibilities:

You will ideally possess a degree in a relative discipline and have had at least 5 years

industrial experience post qualification.

You will have experience of generating clear, well documented, structured and reliable

code on a variety of processors and micro-controllers. Fluent C is a pre-requisite. RTOS

experience and a thorough understanding of the constraints and requirements of

complex real time systems is essential, as is a working knowledge of Version Control

Systems, especially Subversion.

You must be able to implement solutions within a clearly defined structure and produce

portable modular code. Equally they should be happy to assist in all stages of code

design and adopt a common sense approach to implementation.

An understanding of force and pressure measurement would be advantageous as would

experience with precision A/D conversion. Any exposure to DSP implementation would

also be beneficial.

REQUIREMENTS

The ideal candidate for this position will have the following skills and experience:

• RTOS (preferably Freescale MQX)

• VCS (SVN/CVS)

• Serial Communications, preferably CAN Bus

• A variety of debug and development environments

• A/D conversion and Signal Processing

• Working knowledge of mathematical modelling software (such as Matlab or

Simulink)

BENEFITS

Upon joining VPG, you become part of an amazing global community. We offer training

in many different topics including professional and personal development. We believe

in motivating our people to meet their goals and progress in their career and are big on

internal promotions. There are so many opportunities for progression; we have had

many success stories this year alone.

Our main employee benefits include:

· Competitive salary package

· Welcome Pack complete with VPG merchandise

· Pension Scheme

· Life assurance scheme

· Annual leave 25 days plus public holidays (rising to 30 days with service)

· Recruitment referral scheme

· Free on-site Parking

· Free refreshments and subsidised tuck shop

· Company funded Social Events

· Charity committee events (the opportunity to complete voluntary work for the

charities we support)

· Personal development opportunities