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STEM Recruitment | Graduate Embedded Systems Engineer (Summer 2025 start)

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Salary:£35000


Job Sectors:Engineering / Electronics / Graduate / Embedded Systems / Communication Systems / Radio / Wireless Systems / Embedded Software


Our client is a designer and manufacturer of embedded hardware and software products, specialising in cellular and bespoke communication markets, serving clients worldwide.


They are looking for a graduate engineers to join their growing team to help design and manufacture software defined radio (SDR) based products. These include cellular base stations, scanners and other specialist radio equipment. They work across a range of technologies including embedded hardware and software, radio, digital signal processing (DSP), communication stacks and physical layers, and the entire product life cycle from concept through production and into deployment.


Job responsibilities:

  • Capturing system requirements (from customers), analysing those requirements & contributing to system designs as part of a project team.
  • Embedded software development, typically C/C++ on one of our hardware platforms,
  • Protocol stack development, again in C/C++,
  • Signal processing algorithm development, often in Verilog on an FPGA,
  • Design and development of a range of tools for use in-house and by customers,
  • Testing & debugging systems, including fixing bugs


Successful applicant will have:

  • At least a 2:1 degree or equivalent qualification in Engineering, covering one or more of: Electronics, Wireless Communications, Signal Processing, Software Engineering, or a comparable discipline from a good university,
  • Be familiar with at least one programming language, preferably C,


Desirable:

• digital signal processing and communication systems

• digital design using Verilog or VHDL

• mobile telephony systems, such as 5GNR, LTE, UMTS and GSM

• Matlab.


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