Firmware Development Engineer - Hybrid

at  Imperial Brands

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Extensive full lifecycle experience in medium / high volume product development.
• Can-do attitude and willingness to learn new skills.
• Excellent time management, communication, and problem-solving skills
• Lead and Manage projects, collaborate with internal and external partners, participate in project meetings.
• Excellent knowledge/experience of high-quality firmware development across a wide range of microcontrollers.
• Bare metal / RTOS firmware development in C using IDE development tools e.g. Keil, GCC/Clang based IDEs (STM32CubeIDE, MCUXpresso, TI Code Composer Studio or similar)
• Proficient working with electronic schematics and competent in using debuggers, logic analysers, oscilloscopes, DVMs

ABOUT US

We’re a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all. Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference

THE ROLE

Imperial Brands is an inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees and we are looking for a Firmware Development Engineer to join the team in Liverpool.
Working within the Device Engineering Team, this role will be for a Firmware Design Engineer on New Product Development projects within the R&D pillar of the Innovation function. The role plays a key part in device development for all new product development projects.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Work with partners to develop designs through the full product lifecycle; from device specification, component selection, basic firmware development, through to manufacture, delivering prototypes and technical solutions for innovation projects. Collaborating with in house and partners’ firmware / hardware / mechanical engineers to deliver early “Next Generation Product” (NGP) prototypes as well as fully engineered final production devices.
• Expertise in Firmware/Electronic Engineering for development and technology projects to deliver against design brief and functional performance.
• Developing innovative concepts to solve engineering challenges.
• Managing the prototype design, iterative development, and debug/testing activities to validate these concepts, mitigating risk and leverage the capabilities of the team.
• Work closely with multifunctional counterparts (Marketing/Category, MSC, Quality and Regulatory) to deliver fit for purpose propositions (Consumer, Cost, Scalability) and ensure technical requirements are clearly understood.
• Develop strong relationships with partners and suppliers to enable access to newest and most appropriate technologies and facilitate prototype production and scale up to full production.