Embedded Software Engineer - Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom - Ocado Group

Ocado Group

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Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Six month fixed term contract (FTC)

As an embedded software engineer, you will be working with a multidisciplinary team of Engineers that are working on Bot product (400 and 500 series).

On your daily stand up, you will hear stories of root cause analysis from production engineers, stories of designing a new part by our mechanical engineers, or developing motion control logics from our software engineers.

The team has a common goal, to excel the movement of our production bots on the grid in X/Y direction, from design to software to test and release.

The role of the Software Engineer is to design and develop control algorithms and for the motive components of the bot in X/Y direction, as well as performing data analysis to gain insight into our system.

Roles & Responsibilities

Designing and developing embedded software for our motion controllers
Performing data analysis for the development and optimisation of motive systems
Prototyping software for discovery, analysis and implementation of motive solutions
Creating tests to validate accuracy and conformity of code
Review and maintain code written by others
Investigating issues as reported by grid operations and other engineering teams
Analysing and optimising hardware behaviour and performance
Collaborating closely with cross functional engineering teams

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential

Proven experience in at least two of the following;
Developing motive solutions that combine software and hardware
Experience in developing highly reliable embedded software
Strong understanding of control systems engineering, ideally in a realtime environment
Proficiency in C/C++ development
Confident using Python with associated data processing/machine learning toolkits (e.g. Numpy, Pandas)
Knowledge of or interest in learning data Frameworks (e.g. BigQuery, Google Cloud Platform)
Experience in developing unit tests and working with testing frameworks
Some experience with version control (Git) and CI/CD pipelines

Desirable