Senior Firmware Engineer Fully Remote in Basingstoke, Hampshire

Lavazza Professional has ambitious plans to expand the range and features of its class leading drinks beverage systems and machines. A key part of this ambition is how we harness new technology and adapt it to benefit our customers and consumers. We are seeking dynamic and experienced Software Engineers to join the Equipment Development Team to bring this new technology to our products. The successful candidate will join the Software Engineering Team, reporting to the Global Software Engineering and Product Development Manager.

This job pertains to the design, development, delivery into production and maintenance of real time embedded software for the control of electromechanical systems used in Lavazza Professional equipment.

• AREA OF FOCUS: This role focuses on the development and maintenance of embedded real time control software of electro-mechanical systems.
• MANAGEMENT OF DESIGN TEAMS: Lead and coordinate software design teams, including internal and external partners and consultants to ensure complete, timely, delivery of proven control system software.
• SYSTEMS DESIGN: Responsible for conceiving, planning, and implementing embedded real time control system software designs for existing and new Lavazza Professional equipment (brewers and vending machines).
• DESIGN IMPLEMENTATION: Be a hands-on manager and key contributor to the development, delivery, and maintenance of software.
• Identify and build relationships with technology and service suppliers to support current and future products or projects.
• DRIVER FOR QUALITY: Apply software testing, verification, and validation tools to ensure best possible quality for the software and the system it controls. Evaluate and approve the software solutions delivered by external partners.
• WORK WITH CROSS DISCIPLINE PROJECT TEAMS: Consult and work collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary product development team, translating needs into realizable goals, and clearly reporting progress to project managers and key stakeholders as needed.

Specify, deploy, and maintain appropriate tool chains for software development and software maintenance that enable agile project development. The Senior Firmware Engineer will lead the effort of the software discipline that forms part of multi-disciplinary project teams charged to deliver new products to market. The role requires a technically savvy creative problem solver with strong embedded firmware and control theory skills needed to act as a consultant to the wider product development teams. The individual will have the ability to turn a concept or consumer requirement into reality by deploying and managing relevant software solutions to meet the expected project scopes, schedules, and costs.

Software for Lavazza Professional products covers a wide range of domains and technologies that include embedded real time, micro-controller based electronics that use no operating system, embedded real time systems that are hosted by an operating system, and also PC platform tools. Working as part of a product development team, the role requires a close working relationship with mechanical and electronics engineers, as well as the understanding and appreciation of electronics and mechanical designs. The individual in this role will be required to be the project lead software expert, able to propose, define, design and deploy software systems that work seamlessly with the other parts of the system. Software project teams will be a mixture of internal and external individuals.

Minimum: Honours Degree in Computing/Software or related engineering subject.

• TEAM AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Knowledge and experience leading project teams, including multidiscipline teams, both at a functional, as well as at a project level, managing internal and external resources.
• Broad experience designing software for embedded systems control applications integrating electrical/electronic and mechanical systems. Comfortable working at a data sheet level, selecting/specifying microcontrollers, and intelligent ICs, serial and network interfaces. Experience of designing for and managing digital and analogue signals.
• DATA ANALYSIS: Creative problem-solving ability with strong data analysis skills. Ability to design solutions for the real world controlling mechanical and thermal devices. Understanding of electrical and mechanical tolerances and designing fail safe robust software.
• PRODUCT: Experience designing complex real time embedded software system architectures including control integration with electromechanical systems.
• PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: Expert level of competence in Embedded Structured ANSI-C / C++ for real time embedded systems. Experience of OOD, C++ and C#, XML an advantage. Sound understanding and proven experience of fault tolerant software design principles for real time embedded systems. Expert experience in design and development IDEs and tools such as IAR EW, Keil uVision or Microsoft Visual Studio. High levels of competence with electronics laboratory tools such as oscilloscopes and data loggers and a variety of software debug tools. Experience of Linux and Qt Embedded is an advantage. Understanding and experience of Agile project tools. Understanding and experience of software testing techniques, theory, and tools.

The successful candidate will be subject to reference checks and completing a DBS check.