DSP/SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS ENGINEER
| Employment Type | Permanent |
|---|---|
| Location | Cambridgeshire , Cambridge |
| Industry Sector | Software Engineering |
| Start Date | |
| Salary/Rate | £excellent package |
| Reference | J4726 |
| Date Advertised | 11-08-2008 - 17:04 |
Description
DSP/Software Applications Engineer
This role is to provide software support to Tier 1 customer base, having primary technical responsibility for their respective projects. This involves many challenges, from debugging customer's software to writing bespoke solutions to solve their requirements, and managing any other technical issues.
The role also requires direct involvement with the internal development team.
The role will involve both working with existing Tier 1 headset customers and working with various teams within the company responsible for delivering components and sub-components. The company has its own software development environment for writing on-chip applications and offers an opportunity to learn new software skills as well as all of the skills required to address the largest Bluetooth customer base in the world.
DSP/Software Applications Engineer
This role is to provide software support to Tier 1 customer base, having primary technical responsibility for their respective projects. This involves many challenges, from debugging customer's software to writing bespoke solutions to solve their requirements, and managing any other technical issues.
The role also requires direct involvement with the internal development team.
The role will involve both working with existing Tier 1 headset customers and working with various teams within the company responsible for delivering components and sub-components. The company has its own software development environment for writing on-chip applications and offers an opportunity to learn new software skills as well as all of the skills required to address the largest Bluetooth customer base in the world.
This role is based in the UK but travel to customer sites when required is a crucial element of the role. The customer base is primarily in Asia but can be global.
It is expected that this role would suit an experienced Applications Engineer or a dynamic R&D Engineer who would like to move to a customer facing role.
The candidate will be responsible for managing all aspects of applications support to designated Tier 1 customers.
This will involve supporting customers with their bespoke system designs; providing system integration, testing and analysis of problems and responding to all technical inquires in a professional and competent manner.
This work will require hands-on design verification and testing to confirm design performance and may involve travel to customer sites to facilitate this process.
Specifically this role will require support not only of existing Tier 1 customers but additionally support of third party DSP development.
This is a technical role that is customer facing, and as such the candidate will assume responsibility for managing the technical customer relationship and expectation with the respective account manager and/or local distributor or office.
The desire to gain understanding and solve issues outside of the candidate's core area of expertise is preferable.
Taking an active role in the assessing the technical details of new customer projects
Assisting customers with software support during product development.
Working closely with the DSP development team, feeding back customer requests, monitoring internal development progress, maintaining technical understanding of cutting-edge internal DSP development.
Solving technical issues encountered during the development process including debugging of firmware/libraries/profiles/application code (written in C) and DSP algorithms (written in assembler).
Performing test and analysis of Bluetooth systems.
Understanding DSP and Bluetooth in the context on an audio system
Performing audio tests and performing audio analysis.
Evaluating performance of Bluetooth systems, documenting, and advising customers in response to results.
Provide product training to customers, distributors and internally.
Developing direct customer relationships to provide recommendations and feedback on new features for next generation Bluetooth devices.
Recognizing new business opportunities for products and building on established relationships with customers.
Aiding in the development of collateral such as application notes, reference designs, white papers etc.
Required:
Writing and debugging assembler for DSPs.
Writing and debugging embedded C source code.
Writing and debugging Matlab code.
Test equipment use in analytical and de-bug scenarios (especially audio)
Dynamic and outgoing personality
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Diagnostic and analytical skills
Desired:
Applications Engineering in a semiconductor environment
UNIX based development environments (Cygwin)
Wireless systems; Bluetooth, mobile phone and WLAN.
Perforce
Customer facing and commercial awareness
Willing to travel domestically and internationally
Able to effectively interface between customers and the company.
Mylen Recruitment Ltd is a recruitment agency specialising in Mechanical, Electronic, Production, IT, Software, Automotive and Aviation Engineering.
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