Senior Firmware Engineer in Greenford

The Firmware Engineer role takes on the challenge of delivering robust embedded software for existing and future Brompton Electric products and will give you the opportunity to be involved in the full product lifecycle of our electric bikes, from prototype development to production and manufacturing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Write clean, scalable and efficient code
• Work closely with hardware engineers on bring-up, debugging, and validation of new controller boards
• Design, test and maintain embedded software for our in-house electric drive system (motor control algorithms, sensor signal processing, low level drivers etc)
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues involving real-time behaviour, timing, and signal integrity
• Contribute to architecture decisions, coding standards, and long-term platform evolution

Who you are:

• Passionate about problem solving, willing to take the lead and use a range of tools and techniques to get to the root cause
• Self-starter, capable of delivering solutions in isolation or part of larger teams
• Engineer with proven experience in developing embedded software applications
• You have demonstrated experience across majority of the stages of the software development lifecycle (requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing)
• Proficient in C and C++
• Have experience with one or more embedded communication protocols: BLE, CAN, I2C, UART, SPI
• Preferably, have experience with functional safety development (ISO 13849 or ISO 26262)
• Preferably, have experience with electric motors/inverter drives
• Preferably, have experience with RTOS-based application development
• Optionally, have used Python for developing tools
• Have used CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/Docker)
• Comfortable with version control systems (e.g. Git)
• An awareness of Health and Safety law and best practice
• Have the right to Work in the UK

Benefits at Brompton:

• Brompton offers you an excellent working environment with enthusiastic colleagues who get along, communicate and co-operate well with each other.
• The working climate is informal, but we work hard.
• Next to good terms of employment, Brompton offers you the opportunity to work in a responsible and challenging job within a dynamic, international and ambitious environment.
• We are all proud to be part of Brompton Bicycle Ltd; we all share the same passion and dedication to the company and the product, despite any differences in cultural backgrounds and skills.
• 9 Day Fortnight – This is a flexible working pattern which individuals can opt in for where an employee works their contractual hours across 9 days instead of 10 days.
• Annual Leave – 25 days annual leave, plus all UK bank holidays.
• Competitive Salary – Plus workplace pension scheme and profit share bonus.
• Brompton Discount - Get ready to bike in style, as all employees receive up to 60% off their very own bike and accessories, plus there are discounts for your friends and family too.
• Social activities - Throughout the year enjoy time with your colleagues as we host an annual Summer and Christmas party, annual bike rides (both inside and outside the UK), Birthday breakfast, volunteering activities and family fun days just to name a few.
• Learning and Development - Access to free Linkedin Learning and opportunity to devote some of your time at work to personal development.
• Benefits - Workplace Pension Scheme, Care and Health Support, Flexible Working, Cycle to Work Scheme and other benefits.
• Mental Health – We provide access to a confidential EAP that offers counselling, resources and support for various mental health challenges.
• Paid Leave – We offer an enhanced Family, Paternity and Maternity leave pay.

Brompton was listed amongst the best UK workplaces in 2020 and was awarded silver investors in People Accreditation and London Living Wage Employer in 2021.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Commitment

Regardless of age, disability, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, culture, educational background, parental status, neurodiversity or disability - whoever you are, if you’re passionate about your work, curious, relentless and customer-obsessed, we want to hear from you.