R&D Engineer

at  ASSA ABLOY

Research and Development Engineer

Duties & Responsibilities

• Deliver firmware and hardware projects on time, in budget, with the desired functionality, at the defined quality level in a sustainable way.
• New product firmware design, implementation, and testing.
• Analyze and design of hardware and firmware, while collaborating with other team members.
• Meet best practice criteria in the evaluation and testing of hardware and firmware.
• Define test parameters for production testing.
• Complete work orders and assistance requests in appropriate timescales.
• Maintain and enhance firmware without introducing new defects.
• Enhance firmware and systems to support and move to new technologies.
• Error investigation and reporting.
• Corrective action design and implementation.
• Share knowledge with development and support teams.
• Document systems, including enhancements to facilitate knowledge sharing.
• Ensure that the best practice development processes and standards are followed.
• Effective use of development toolset.
• Follow department development process.
• Preparing any required documentation needed.

Experience & Qualification

Experience, qualifications and competency requirements:

• BSc/BEng Computer or Electronic Engineering degree.
• 5 years of relevant work experience.

Significant and demonstratable experience in:

• Designing embedded system firmware for microcontrollers and its architectures (Atmel AVR, TI MSP430, Microchip PIC, STM32 ARM, Nordic nRF).
• C programming and the reliable implementation of firmware for standalone and remote device operations
• GSM/GPRS/SMS modems and communication GSM & LTE networks interfaces
• Communication protocols (TCP/IP stacks, SPI, WiFi, Bluetooth, USB, MQTT, UART, RS485, AWS communications)
• Testing of embedded firmware-based products

Advantageous Skills:

• RF-based development experience beneficial (433MHz / 868MHz /Sigfox )
• Experience in SQL Server
• Experience using RTOS like FreeRTOS, ucLinux, Micrium uC/OS-II, Zephyr RTOS.
• Experience in application development experience using Java, C++ and/or C#

• Deliver firmware and hardware projects on time, in budget, with the desired functionality, at the defined quality level in a sustainable way.
• New product firmware design, implementation, and testing.
• Analyze and design of hardware and firmware, while collaborating with other team members.
• Meet best practice criteria in the evaluation and testing of hardware and firmware.
• Define test parameters for production testing.
• Complete work orders and assistance requests in appropriate timescales.
• Maintain and enhance firmware without introducing new defects.
• Enhance firmware and systems to support and move to new technologies.
• Error investigation and reporting.
• Corrective action design and implementation.
• Share knowledge with development and support teams.
• Document systems, including enhancements to facilitate knowledge sharing.
• Ensure that the best practice development processes and standards are followed.
• Effective use of development toolset.
• Follow department development process.
• Preparing any required documentation needed