Embedded Firmware Engineer

About Engineered Arts

Since 2004, Engineered Arts has been at the forefront of robotics, creating lifelike social humanoids that have captivated audiences worldwide. Our vision is to revolutionize the human experience through embodied AI, loved and trusted in every home.

Do you want to help build the future of humanoid robots?

We’re looking for a talented firmware development engineer to write firmware for microcontroller based systems. We develop a wide range of modules tightly integrated into our products to provide motor control, power management and communications. We often need to develop new projects to support new use cases and devices as well as extending and maintaining our existing products. All of our electronics are developed in house within a tight knit team spanning firmware, electronics, mechanical and software engineers to create large scale systems.

Our internal motto is “Be Wow”, our robots are wow and we seek engineers who embody this in their work by building intuitive, effective systems that delight users and drive success.

• Development of C based software for microcontrollers
• Building new firmware projects for newly designed boards
• Maintaining and modifying existing C based firmware to add features or fix bugs
• Contribute to design reviews to optimise the cost, size and reliability of new boards
• Writing test plans for firmware features

• Embedded Engineering Team
  • Day to day discussion of projects and progress
  • Reviewing colleague’s work
• Robot Assembly and Service Delivery Teams
  • Providing expert support / troubleshooting knowledge
• Product Manager
  • Understanding the scope of work required
  • Reporting on progress and timelines

• Working on high performance real time embedded systems
• Developing complex but reliable systems with many components
• Keeping up with the latest advancements in motor and sensor technology
• Working with many disciplines to make whole systems work

• Working at the forefront of the rapidly growing field of humanoid robotics.
• Working in a creative environment with highly skilled and committed colleagues.
• Work across a broad technical field with ample variety in tasks and opportunity to deepen your knowledge and experience in many areas.
• Working on a proven, commercially successful product consistently shipping units.

• Strong C programming skills
• Familiarity with ARM based microcontrollers
• Competence within a Linux based development environment
• Experience with version control software
• Hardware ability - understanding schematics, datasheets etc. and basic test equipment use (oscilloscope, multimeter)

• STM
  32 ecosystem familiarity including use of CubeMX
• Git experience
• Familiarity with FreeRTOS, TinyUSB, LwIP
• Familiarity with Ethernet, CAN or USB
• Python experience (used in infrastructure and testing)
• Experience with KiCAD
• Experience with CMake