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This role is ideal for an individual who is passionate about embedded systems, hardware design, and developing innovative solutions for advanced electronic products.\nDuties & Responsibilities\n\nThis opportunity is ideally suited to an innovative and hands-on engineer who thrives in a multidisciplinary product development environment and enjoys working across the entire embedded systems development lifecycle. The successful candidate will be involved in all stages of product development, from firmware design and hardware integration through to testing, validation, manufacturing support, and high-volume production deployment.\nIn this role, you will contribute to the development of advanced sensing, control, and lighting technologies, working extensively with embedded microcontrollers, sensor interfaces, wireless communication platforms, and electronic hardware. 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