FirmWare Engineer (Central Belfast – Urgent!)

Information about our client;

Our client – Trident Microsystems is a leading force in the digital home entertainment market, delivering innovative semiconductor solutions for digital televisions and set-top boxes – at the heart of today's digital home. A pioneer in the consumer electronics and television markets for the past 20 years, Trident understands the rapidly-evolving consumer space and has taken bold moves to deepen it's technology portfolio and expand it's addressable market. In February 2010, Trident completed it's acquisition of NXP Semiconductor's television and set-top box lines, creating a leader in the digital home entertainment market with industry-leading positions in each of the digital television and set-top box markets

Responsibilities;

Design and implementation of video firmware and software for digital TV and Set-Top-Box applications to project schedule and budget
Take technical responsibility for all aspects of the completion of projects, creating innovative and robust solutions to complex technical problems
Work closely with the hardware team during design, verification and validation stages of developments
Assist with the development of detailed project plans, task breakdown, resource requirements and definition of milestones and delivery dates
Participate in design reviews, code walkthroughs and other quality improvement tasks
Mentor, train and support other members of the team as required
Provide technical support to end customers, internal product support engineers including remotely and on-site as required
Write user guides, manuals and any other documentation
Travel to other company sites and customer locations
Any other duties as may be reasonably required by management

Experience and Skills Required:

Essential;

A degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Mathematics or Physics
A minimum of 2 years experience in all stages of firmware/software development from requirements definition through to release and support
A minimum of 2 years experience developing firmware/software using C/C++ for embedded processors such as ARM, MIPS, DSPs
A minimum of 2 years experience of developing software based on application specifications and requirements
Deep knowledge of embedded processor architecture and real-time operating systems

Desirable;

Experience of SoC or FPGA hardware design and debugging
Experience of digital video codec systems and algorithms
Experience of digital TV, Set-Top-Box or other digital video applications
Experience of test application development
Experience of customer support, both remotely and on-site
Acting as the exclusive Employment Agency on behalf of our client – Trident Microsystems

If you are interested in this excellent opportunity and feel that you would be a good match, please contact John Fuller at Brightwater at 02890 325 325 or email your CV