Senior Software Engineer

CPI helps make great ideas and inventions a reality. We’re a team of intelligent people using advances in science and technology to solve the biggest global challenges in healthcare and sustainability.

Through our incredible people and innovation infrastructure, we collaborate with our partners in industry, academia, government, and the investment community to accelerate the development and commercialisation of innovative products.

From health technologies and pharmaceuticals to sustainable food and materials innovations, we turn the entrepreneurial spirit and radical thinking of our people and partners into incredible impact that makes our world a better place.

We are looking to recruit a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to join our growing team working on the development of advanced sensors or sensor systems, medical devices, wearable electronic devices and instrumentation. 

The successful candidate will be working in a multi-project environment where we help our clients to realise their product ideas from concept through to pilot manufacturing and all stages between. You will be responsible for the development of software for prototype electronic devices. In this role you will have to work closely with external clients to accurately define their requirements and with the CPI project team of electronics engineers, product designers and scientists to deliver that functionality to the required quality standards. You will also need to verify and test the performance of your software in devices. To assist with all this, you will have access to excellent facilities for design, integration, and testing at CPI’s site in Sedgefield. This role does not come with any line management responsibilities.

Key tasks in the role will include (but are not limited to the below), please download the job description for full details available on the CPI careers page:

• To be responsible for supporting work programmes with the development of firmware and software applications for embedded microcontrollers, microprocessors, personal computers, and mobile devices. 

• To liaise with hardware development in the creation and agreement of block diagrams, IO tables and software user manuals. 

• To adhere to defined Software Development Procedures and actively use version control, modular design, coding standards, and task management tools to ensure best working practices in the whole software development lifecycle.

• To participate in software project scoping, planning and technical reviews.

• Interpret client and product needs and requirements, producing software systems designs and functional specifications.

We are looking for someone with good technical expertise and background knowledge, with proven technical problem-solving ability and able to implement innovative solutions in complex situations. 

It is essential that you are educated to at least HNC or foundation degree level (or equivalent) in an Engineering discipline plus additional industry work experience at a senior level. You must be able to demonstrate professional mastery of the principles and practices in embedded software systems and products involved with software development. 

The ideal candidate would also have experience of the complete lifecycle of proof of concept applications including prototype, design, implementation, debug, test and documentation of embedded systems. The role requires a working knowledge of low power programming environments and tools required for embedded development such as ARM Cortex‑M based Keil/​IAR, experience of low-level programming including C/C++. Experience with design of systems using wireless communications (such as UHF RFID, NFC, Bluetooth, LoRaWAN) and experience of implementing low power and low-level communications systems (such as I2C, SPI, RS-232, RS-485 etc) is desirable. 

Any experience you have with embedded Linux/​Windows development or higher-level programming in C# .NET or similar would also be desirable, as would membership of a relevant professional body.

At CPI, we offer a wide range of benefits to our employees, this includes:

• Up to 36 days holiday, including bank holidays – Plus a holiday purchasing scheme
• Generous pension scheme
• Life assurance and accident insurance schemes
• Flexible working
• Learning and Development Opportunities
• Free parking

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CPI is an organisation based in the UK. Commencement of employment is conditional to demonstrating right to work in the UK, sponsorship may be available.