Senior Software Engineer

£Competitive | East of England | 12 Jul 2011

Our client is a world leader in wireless technology and seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join its team of talented software engineers developing and providing software tools for new generations of wireless chips.
Your key responsibilities will include contributing to requirements capture and task definition; designing, developing, and maintaining cross-platform software tools; contributing to the creation of relevant documentation; working closely with hardware, software, test and field application engineers to identify requirements and problem solve.
You must have:

• Good commercial / industrial experience using C and C++

• Good degree (or overseas equivalent) in Software/Electronics/Science/Maths

• Experience of Windows applications development (MFC, .NET, etc)

• Understanding of portability issues between operating systems, processors and compilers

• Good understanding of software design techniques and a broad knowledge of the complete software lifecycle

• Understanding of debug techniques

• Understanding of configuration management

Highly desirable:

• Knowledge of wireless standards.

• Knowledge of protocol stacks and standard PC peripheral interfaces (RS232, USB, PCI, PCIe, etc)

• Good working knowledge of Perl, Python and TCL.  Working knowledge of Microsoft Visual Studio and gdb.  Experience of remote debugging embedded devices.

• Familiarity with more than one operating system: Win32, WinCE, Linux (desktop or embedded)

Summary: Senior Software Engineer sought by world leader in wireless technology. C, C++, Cambridge, £highly competitive + benefits.