Software & Systems Engineer

at  Micromeritics

Working at MICROMERITICS means you are improving our world in many ways. Our high-performing products offer solutions that characterize particles, powders, and porous materials focusing on physical properties, chemical activity, and flow properties. Our industry-leading technology portfolio includes instruments that characterize surface area, porosity, solid density, particle interactions, and powder flow. In fact, every 3 seconds around the world there is a scientist conducting a BET Surface Area measurement using our TriStar. The demand for our technology has been further fueled by advances in green technology, electric vehicle, carbon capture, and hydrogen.
Freeman Technology, part of Micromeritics Instrument Corporation, is a multiple Queen’s Award-winning company, based in the UK, from where it designs, manufactures and sells precision scientific instruments for the measurement of powder properties. Its products are recognized globally as the leaders in their field and are utilized by multinational companies in sectors as diverse as pharmaceutical, chemical, additive manufacturing, food and ceramics.

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE

• Developing and delivering GUI applications for Linux/Windows using WinForms, Qt/QML) for real products, e.g. scientific instrumentation, medical devices, industrial equipment, laboratory instruments, Mechatronics etc.
• Proficiency in C++ to contribute to core product development, and VB6 to support legacy instruments
• Maintaining and developing existing software and hardware
• Working directly and collaboratively with colleagues across all business functions and multiple projects

DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE

• Developing and delivering real time embedded software
• Experience of digital closed loop control and signal processing
• Experience integrating system hardware (including specifying, evaluating COTS products)
• Data Analysis relating to physical quantities (position, pressures, temperatures, flows etc).
• Experience with bare metal programming and communication protocols (e.g. I2C, SPI, CAN, Ethernet, RS232)

• Develop software for the company’s laboratory analytical Instruments.
• Contribute to the design of new products, specifically the software and system architecture.