Software Development Engineer

Contract

Ipswich

£375 – £400 per day

You will be responsible for software design, development and test within our clients development team. Which is primarily responsible for the insourcing of CPE firmware development. The core purpose of this role is to contribute to the development of a new CPE software development strategy, in-sourcing the developing capability for next generation hardware platforms.

The role holder will implement technical developments of the Hub software backlog, utilising Agile development methodologies, in line with industry technical standards and the strategic needs of broadband product set. The role holder will be expected to act as a development engineer and be the point of contact for one or more components of the firmware.

The role holder will work as part of an Agile software development team and will be expected to develop and deliver high quality code in support of world class broadband products.

Skills/Experience:

• Demonstrable experience in software design and development, using the C programming language, ideally on embedded systems
• Experience developing and debugging in a Linux environment
• Strong scripting skills, e.g. bash, Python
• Experience in building and debugging software for embedded systems development, with demonstrable experience of shell scripting, debugging tools, e.g. gdb.
• Use of code revision, issue tracking and continuous integration tools, e.g. git, Jira, Gitlab
• Understanding of the hardware and software constraints related to developing home gateways or similar consumer electronic systems
• Must have experience of working with Agile delivery methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban; iterative planning and task estimation
• Experience of building products using OpenWRT or similar
• Experience in Linux kernel and driver development is preferred.
• Collaborative and innovative approach to problem solving
• Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Test Driven Development
• Exposure to, and understanding of drivers behind automated test strategies
• Working to ambitious timescales

Ideally

• Demonstrable contribution to open source projects
• Experience on one or more of the following: TR-069, SIP(S), Wi-Fi driver development, DECT, cellular interfaces
• Bootloader experience, e.g. U-Boot
• An understanding of the TR-069 protocol and TR-181 data model design and use
• Demonstrable experience of designing or developing embedded containerised environment
• Has a working knowledge of Home Gateway standards including, but not restricted to: IPv4/IPv6, PPP, IPoE, Wi-Fi, UPnP / Multicast and EoGRE.
• Experience using JTAG debuggers to bring up and debug hardware

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