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Embedded Software Engineer (Bare metal)

Company Overview

We are part of the Xylem group and our teams apply our knowledge of fundamental science, electronics, software, analytics and design across a wide range of advanced products, both within the Xylem group, and to a number of selected third parties, including some familiar household brands.

From brainstorming to prototype to manufacture and production process, Sentec clients benefit from outstanding ideas and class-leading products and services.

Our ownership structure provides a unique opportunity: we receive the insights, challenges, global view, and stability of a large corporation, we are left to operate in a small-company, agile, innovative manner to deliver solutions – which ultimately have a commercial route to market through our parent company – giving our team the unique position of seeing their innovations being deployed in real commercial products. Sentec innovations are making important contributions to some of today’s key social and global resource issues – for example, there are now over 15 million smart city assets incorporating Sentec technology deployed around the world, enabling the management of energy and water resources.

About Xylem:

Xylem

1) The tissue in plants that brings water upward from the roots;
2) a leading global water technology company.
Xylem, a leading global water technology company dedicated to solving the world’s most challenging water issues, is the leading global provider of efficient, innovative and sustainable water technologies improving the way water is used, managed, conserved and re-used. Our international team is unified in a common purpose: creating advanced technology and other trusted solutions to solve the world’s water challenges. We are committed to creating an organization of inclusion and diversity, where everyone feels involved, respected, valued and connected, and where everyone is free to bring their authentic selves and ideas.
 
If you are excited and passionate about helping us #letssolvewater, we want to hear from you! For more information, please visit us at www.xylem.com

We Offer You More Than Just “A Job”

  • Professional Development – To advance the capabilities of our people, we offer a wide variety of experiences to support our employees’ professional growth and continuous learning.
  • Total Rewards – We offer comprehensive programs for compensation, benefits, recognition, learning and development, work-life integration and corporate citizenship.
  • Watermark – Watermark is our corporate social responsibility program working to provide education and access to safe water to ensure healthy lives, gender equality, and resilient communities. Employees have the opportunity to learn and volunteer on various water-related projects.
  • Employee Networks – Our Employee Networks provide a professional, supportive network for employees from diverse backgrounds, including Women’s, LGBT+ and Allies, Veteran’s, People of Color and Allies, Emerging Leaders, and Working Parents Networks.
We hire bright, thoughtful and motivated individuals, and recognise that our success as an organisation depends on creating an environment where great employees can thrive. Teams are fluid, and individuals are trusted to take on stretching work within a supportive environment that emphasises the importance of strong communication and knowledge sharing. The fast-paced, project-based environment provides opportunities for motivated people to get involved in all aspects of delivery and to develop into new technical areas.

Xylem is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or other characteristics protected by law.

The Role

The Power Electronics Centre of Excellence seeks to hire an Embedded Software Engineer to join our team working on embedded motor controllers and related systems. The primary focus of this Centre of Excellence is to design a range of custom motor drives (variable frequency) to surpass efficiency, usability and reliability requirements for a wide range of water applications. With one of the locations being within a world-class Cambridge-based consultancy, Sentec, we are supported by excellent facilities and superb access to its scientific experience and expertise whilst maintaining our constant focus on the design of motor drives.

Our software engineering work spans everything from embedded low level interrupts and device driver code up to PC-based GUI and test harness development – with lots of engineering in between for motor efficiency, product safety and certification, and connected HMI devices and comms.

We are focused on bringing state of the art VFD technology to multiple Xylem products. We develop software using agile methodology, and innovation is at the core of what we do. As a software engineer you will be required to write high quality embedded software and help us to improve our code base. The ability to work across all stages of product development is necessary, from reading circuit schematics to writing automated test software.

The Power Electronics Centre of Excellence group has a diverse background and is distributed across 3 continents (+/- 5 hours). With a relaxed work environment, allowing new ideas and solutions to flourish whilst maintaining high standards in order to meet our client’s needs and deadlines. This position requires laboratory work, and therefore you will have a good engineering degree and be willing to commute to Cambridge, UK.

Learn more about this role

Key Skills & Experience

  • Good knowledge of embedded C with at least 3 years of professional experience
  • Thorough understanding of the whole software development process
  • Bare metal programming experience and deep understanding of microcontrollers
  • Knowledge of one or more high level programming language (C#, Python, Ruby, Java or others)
  • Experience of several communication protocols
  • Engineering Degree and a good track record of developing software and systems
  • Engineering skills – able to go from FFTs to fixes, from latency to linker tables
  • Experience with version control systems such as Git and Subversion
  • Experience with motor control or power electronics considered a great advantage
  • Experience with product safety and software reliability engineering considered an advantage
  • Participation in Xylem Watermark volunteer activities

Physical Demands, Work Environment & Benefits

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  • Regularly required to sit or stand, reach, bend and move about the facility
Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  • Office: Standard office equipment; work usually performed in an office or site laboratory setting
  • Estimated 30% travel requirement
  • Standard weekly job hours: 37.5 hours
Benefits Include:
  • Competitive salaries
  • Holiday of 25 days per year, increases with length of service
  • Group life cover at 4 times basic salary
  • Private health care
  • Salary sacrifice pension scheme
  • Relocation expenses as appropriate
  • Annual performance and merit process
  • Discretionary 10% All staff bonus scheme
  • Employee referral bonus scheme
  • Access to flexible benefits portal which includes things like cycle to work, critical illness cover, green car leasing
  • Flexible and remote working
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