Junior Embedded Software Engineer (Full-time)

Junior Embedded Software Engineer
Salary Range: £24,000 - £34,000 Location: Bedfont® HQ - Harrietsham

The Story:
Established in 1976, Bedfont is an award-winning medical technology company based in Harrietsham,
Kent. Its breath analysis medical devices are exported globally thanks to its network of carefully selected distributors.

The Challenge:

Healthcare is evolving and the market for breath analysis monitors is expanding. Bedfont are looking for hard-working, like-minded, and passionate individuals to join the Bedfont Family to help achieve its goal of innovating healthcare worldwide.

The Benefits:

• 25 days paid holiday
• Social events
• Private healthcare
• Well-being warriors
• Optical allowance
• Bike-to-work scheme
• Pension scheme
• Employee awards
• Bonus Scheme
• Free on-site parking
• Hybrid working
• Training & Development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Uniform

Your Mission:

The Junior Embedded Software Engineer will develop and maintain the embedded software and firmware for the company’s existing and new products. The Junior Embedded Software Engineer will be responsible for creating and maintaining all supporting regulatory documentation as per the relevant standards.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Creating and maintaining embedded software for a range of medical devices sold globally
• Designing and developing embedded software systems to detailed specifications
• Following the software lifecycle from design and coding, to delivery and support
• Investigating embedded software issues found in testing, production, or discovered in the field
• Producing clear and concise development documentation of software designs
• Maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of technical and commercial developments
• Working to a projects plan, tracking progress, identifying risks, anticipating delays and communicating to the project lead
• Ensuring code is highly robust with high availability
• Developing unit tests for created code
• Ensuring code is aligned with the company coding standard
• Gaining detailed knowledge and understanding of existing software designs to be able to support and maintain existing products
• Working to existing quality and technical standards and processes whilst supporting continuous improvement

In addition, employees may be required to undertake other duties as may reasonably be required of them. In these circumstances training will be given.

Qualifications:

• BSc in Computer Science or Software Engineering or BSc Electronic Engineering or similar and/or relevant software experience
• Strong coding skills using embedded C
• Understanding of processor and hardware requirements around embedded systems
• Experience with Visual ARM Basic, C++, C# is a benefit
• Knowledge of common bus/interfaces such USB, SPI, I2C and Bluetooth
• Experience debugging embedded products in a lab environment
• Knowledge of an RTOS is a benefit

Preferred Skills:

• Good spoken and written communication skills
• Flexible, tolerant, multitasking attitude when working under pressure
• Tenacious problem solver
• Confident working with minimal supervision and as part of a multi-disciplinary team

Bedfont® Scientific Ltd. does not and will not discriminate in the recruitment or managing of staff on the basis of race, colour, religion, gender, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation and more. We are an equal opportunity employer and Bedfont® regards every employee as a member of the Bedfont® family and is committed to providing a fair, safe, diverse and welcoming atmosphere. Our application process has been designed so that everyone is able to demonstrate their skills and how they meet the criteria required for the job advertised. If you are interested in applying for this role, please visit https://www.bedfont.com/careers to apply.

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Bedfont® reserves the right to change or update this literature without prior notice. Registered in England and Wales. Registered No: 1289798

Our family, innovating health, for yours.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £24,000.00-£34,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• On-site parking
• Private medical insurance
• Sick pay
• Wellness programme
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Maidstone: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

• Do you have an understanding of processor and hardware requirements around embedded systems (this is required for this vacancy)?
• Do you have a minimum of 1 years working experience within embedded software engineering (this is required for this vacancy?

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: One location