Principal Embedded Software Engineer

at  Evonetix Ltd

The Company
Evonetix is a start-up biotech company based in a state-of-the-art facility in central Cambridge with the mission to revolutionise gene synthesis and accelerate the exciting field of synthetic biology.
The company’s technology is based on a novel silicon array, manufactured with semiconductor microfabrication techniques that enable independent control of numerous miniaturised reaction sites, allowing massive parallelism of the DNA synthesis process and assembly on-chip, in an innovative way.
The Evonetix community comprises a talented multidisciplinary team of professionals, including synthetic and surface chemists, physicists, biologists, bioinformaticians, and engineers.
The Position
Our novel approach to DNA synthesis and assembly is set to revolutionise what is possible with a desktop DNA synthesiser. You will work within a multidisciplinary environment to plan, deliver and support prototype DNA synthesiser devices.
The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate a high degree of independent working and use of initiative. Taking ownership of our prototype rig software, they will be responsible for maintaining (including hands-on debugging) and developing features in response to the needs of the business. This will encompass working with Electronics Engineers developing bare metal solutions, all the way to deploying Python applications in Docker containers running on a Linux host.
Experience with Python and C in an embedded environment is essential, with exposure to ARM architectures being a bonus.
Your Skills and Experience

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