Description:

One of our clients is developing a revolutionary new technique to store data in glass using lasers and read it out using optical imaging. This position is for a highly proficient software engineer who likes turning advanced research into working systems, and who will have the opportunity to impact the progress of this exciting new storage system. You would be responsible for working on the Embedded software controlling hardware within read systems.

Come and join an incredibly talented multi-disciplinary team of Laser scientists, optical physicists, electronics engineers, and computer scientists working together in a tight-knit team to build this storage technology of the future.

Top must have skills:

1) Rust coding experience .

2) Experience with Linux, down to the device tree level

3) Experience interfacing with hardware (device register access, cache coherency, memory mapped IO)

Responsibilities

You would be responsible for:

1) Designing, implementing, and testing new features in the codebase to add capabilities, or support changes in the hardware.

2) Working closely with electronics engineers, FPGA developers and mechanical engineers to understand their needs and support them.

3) Maintaining and improving our Rust codebase which controls our hardware systems.

4) Diagnosing and troubleshooting interactions between the hardware and software.

Required

1) Excellent software design and implementation skills.

2) Mastery of computer science fundamentals (eg, concurrency, data-structures)

3) Proficient at communication and team working in a multi-disciplinary and highly agile environment.

5) Able to work independently with minimal supervision towards only partly-defined tasks interacting with others in the team to clarify needs and iterate quickly.

6) Rust coding experience .

7) Experience with Linux, down to the device tree level

8) Experience interfacing with hardware (device register access, cache coherency, memory mapped IO)

Preferred

1) Experience with ARM-based SoCs, mixing hard processors with FPGA logic.

2) Experience with SPI, I2C, RS485 and similar protocols.

3) Experience of C# or python would be helpful

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Computer Science (Masters or PhD preferred), or related field.

Rust coding, at least 3 years of experience .

Skills:

• Systems engineering
• Linux
• Rust
• hardware
• c#
• python
• SPI
• ARM

Job Title: Senior Systems Software Engineer

Location: Cambridge, UK

Job Type: Contract

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