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Their smart and reliable solutions, services and products let people, vehicles, and machines determine their precise position and communicate wirelessly over cellular and short range networks. With a broad portfolio of chips, modules, and secure data services and connectivity, u blox is uniquely positioned to empower its customers to develop innovative and reliable solutions for the Internet of Things, quickly and cost effectively. With headquarters in Thalwil, Switzerland, the company is globally present with offices in Europe, Asia, and the USA. (www.u-blox.com)\n\nJob Description\n\nThe Embedded Systems team is responsible for developing the embedded functionality of our positioning platforms. This includes power management, memory management, communication, interfaces, security functionality including encryption, CPU and computing power and more.\n\nWe are experts in embedded operating systems, drivers, low-level software and hardware for our positioning products.\n\nWe are organized in three cross-functional Scrum teams full of motivated and talented engineers. We wish to add your technical expertise to one of these teams and are looking for your experience as Senior Embedded Software Engineer.\n\nThe embedded system is a key building block of our positioning platforms, and we are delivering this to internal stakeholders as base for signal processing, positioning algorithm and product development. In this role you will work closely with both our hardware team who provide to us the new custom ASIC/FPGAs and boards, and our internal stakeholders like system integration, signal processing and navigation teams and make sure we deliver the most value to them.\n\nThe role can be located in Tampere, Finland or in Athens, Greece. There will be very occasional travel within Europe.\n\nYour Responsibilities Develop and test high quality firmware drivers and code for our ASICs \n\nSupport and coach junior members of the team\n\nWork together effectively in a distributed team in an agile environment using Jira and Gitlab to deliver highest value features\n\nEnjoy to debug and fix complex low level software issues or provide workarounds\n\nBe motivated to improve our code, our testing, our CI/CD automation, our ways of working\n\nDocument features for our stakeholders\n\nYour Skills and ExperienceDegree in electrical engineering or computer science\n\n6+ years' experience in: Embedded software development in C\n\nARM cores (preferably of the Cortex-M family)\n\nBare metal programming and debugging\n\nAutomated testing and scripting using pytest or similar in a CI environment like Jenkins/Gitlab \n\nIn depth knowledge of at least two of the following: UART, I2C, SPI, USB, Flash\n\nGood communications skills, desire for sharing experience and knowledge \n\nFluent in English (spoken and written)\n\nWillingness and ability to travel on an occasional basis within Europe\n\nBonus Points:Experience of working in an agile development environment\n\nSignal processing concepts and GNSS receivers\n\nUnit test frameworks (e.g. Cppunit) and mocking/fuzzing for embedded systems\n\nFirmware security concepts\n\nReal time operating systems\n\nUse of any of: Lauterbach, Raspberry PI, QEMU, pytest\n\nWhat are your perks? A multicultural and international company with over 60 different nationalities \n\nProject-based activities working with colleagues across the globe \n\nA start-up and innovation mindset while in the process of scaling-up processes and efficiencies \n\nHybrid working model & flexible working hours \n\nCompany Performance Bonus and RSU\n\nA strong learning environment and regular career discussions \n\nSport activities and Team events.\n\n... and discover even more by talking with us!\n\nLearn more about u-blox and its mission by watching this video !\n\nWe see diversity as a strength and promote a culture of inclusion among our employees. Our varied backgrounds, ideas and experiences are critical to our success. We strive to become a strong learning organization and are committed to provide our employees with equal opportunities regardless of differences such as gender, race, ethnicity, generations, belief.\n\nApplications Close Date\n\nContact\n\nAre you interested in this challenging position within an international work environment in a successful company? Apply now! 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