Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Salary £60,000 - £70,000+ DOE

As a company we specialise in using ML within the Electrical Distribution Industry to predict outages and equipment failure. The work has huge real world implications, helping prevent anything from large scale outages to mitigating wildfires.

Our engineers, developers and data scientists share a passion for innovation and are dedicated to providing our customers with solutions that enable new insights that revolutionise business processes.

Based in the heart of the wonderful and vibrant city of Bristol around the corner from the SS Great Britain and one of the street artist, Banksy’s infamous works. It is only a short stroll to Cargo and the Harbour side area which boasts a tremendous array of bars, restaurants, cafes and other assorted nice places all ripe for a lunch break visit or relaxing after work.

Working alongside our Data Science team you will be responsible for deploying AI algorithms to edge devices like Smart Meters, acting as a bridge between high level data science and low level hardware engineering.

You will be responsible for taking trained models and "shrinking" them to fit within the kilobyte-range memory and milliwatt power budgets of our hardware. Your work will enable real-time anomaly detection, load forecasting, and grid health monitoring directly at the point of consumption.

• Model Optimization:
  Convert high-level Python/Tensor Flow/PyTorch models into optimized C++, Rust or Flat buffer formats using Tensor Flow Lite for Microcontrollers or Edge Impulse.
• Resource Management:
  Implement techniques like 8-bit quantization, weight pruning, and knowledge distillation to ensure models run within