u-blox

About u-blox

u-blox (SIX:UBXN) is a global technology leader in positioning and wireless communication in automotive, industrial, and consumer markets. Their smart and reliable solutions, services and products let people, vehicles, and machines determine their precise position and communicate wirelessly over cellular and short range networks. With a broad portfolio of chips, modules, and secure data services and connectivity, u blox is uniquely positioned to empower its customers to develop innovative and reliable solutions for the Internet of Things, quickly and cost effectively. With headquarters in Thalwil, Switzerland, the company is globally present with offices in Europe, Asia, and the USA. (www.u-blox.com)

Job Description

The Embedded Systems team is responsible for developing the embedded functionality of our positioning platforms. This includes power management, memory management, communication, interfaces, security functionality including encryption, CPU and computing power and more.

We are experts in embedded operating systems, drivers, low-level software and hardware for our positioning products.

We are organized in three cross-functional Scrum teams full of motivated and talented engineers. We wish to add your technical expertise to one of these teams and are looking for your experience as Senior Embedded Software Engineer.

The embedded system is a key building block of our positioning platforms, and we are delivering this to internal stakeholders as base for signal processing, positioning algorithm and product development. In this role you will work closely with both our hardware team who provide to us the new custom ASIC/FPGAs and boards, and our internal stakeholders like system integration, signal processing and navigation teams and make sure we deliver the most value to them.

The role can be located in Tampere, Finland or in Athens, Greece. There will be very occasional travel within Europe.

Your Responsibilities

• Develop and test high quality firmware drivers and code for our ASICs
• Support and coach junior members of the team
• Work together effectively in a distributed team in an agile environment using Jira and Gitlab to deliver highest value features
• Enjoy to debug and fix complex low level software issues or provide workarounds
• Be motivated to improve our code, our testing, our CI/CD automation, our ways of working
• Document features for our stakeholders

Your Skills and Experience

• Degree in electrical engineering or computer science
• 6+ years’ experience in:
• Embedded software development in C
• ARM cores (preferably of the Cortex-M family)
• Bare metal programming and debugging
• Automated testing and scripting using pytest or similar in a CI environment like Jenkins/Gitlab
• In depth knowledge of at least two of the following: UART, I2C, SPI, USB, Flash
• Good communications skills, desire for sharing experience and knowledge
• Fluent in English (spoken and written)
• Willingness and ability to travel on an occasional basis within Europe

Bonus Points:

• Experience of working in an agile development environment
• Signal processing concepts and GNSS receivers
• Unit test frameworks (e.g. Cppunit) and mocking/fuzzing for embedded systems
• Firmware security concepts
• Real time operating systems
• Use of any of: Lauterbach, Raspberry PI, QEMU, pytest

What are your perks?

• A multicultural and international company with over 60 different nationalities 
• Project-based activities working with colleagues across the globe 
• A start-up and innovation mindset while in the process of scaling-up processes and efficiencies 
• Hybrid working model & flexible working hours 
• Company Performance Bonus and RSU
• A strong learning environment and regular career discussions 
• Sport activities and Team events.
• … and discover even more by talking with us!

Learn more about u-blox and its mission by watching this video !

We see diversity as a strength and promote a culture of inclusion among our employees. Our varied backgrounds, ideas and experiences are critical to our success. We strive to become a strong learning organization and are committed to provide our employees with equal opportunities regardless of differences such as gender, race, ethnicity, generations, belief.

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