Are you an experienced Software Engineer and Technology enthusiast? Looking for the opportunity to work on an incredibly successful product which has won innovation awards? We'd love you to be part of our small growing team and play a key role in our ongoing growth and development.
About Us
Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Edinburgh, Photon Force is a multi-award winning business. We design and manufacture single-photon sensitive cameras and sensors with the highest throughput, fastest time-resolved single-photon counting technology on the market. Take a look at our web site to see more on applications.
Photon Force is the UK’s only business with expertise and capability in the design, manufacture and application of silicon-based, single-photon sensitive time-resolved sensors and ROICs and the company is committed to building on this position with continued innovations for this crucial emerging market.
We’re at the next stage of growth, focusing on developing the product range for an even wider customer base. Already working with high-profile organisations such as MIT, Duke University and BP, Photon Force is very much focused on moving beyond the research lab and working with OEMs to see our technology designed into commercial and industrial systems.
It's an exciting time to join us!
About The Role
With an increasing portfolio of advanced SPAD image sensors, we are looking to significantly extend opportunities for software development in a wide range of exciting new market applications.
The successful candidate will join our software team in developing our API, GUI applications, internal tools and test and characterisation framework.
Attitude and personality are key to this role and the ideal candidate will be professional, confident and have a real passion for delivering great software. You will be able to work effectively without supervision to solve problems and deliver results.
We are a dynamic team, with ambition and opportunity and we welcome motivated Engineers who want to be part of our ongoing success.
Initially this role will involve the development of software for SPAD cameras and sensors.
Software position includes full software lifecycle from requirements analysis; through design, coding and unit test; to integrating the software with the hardware target; and lastly to acceptance test and delivery to the customer.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you are responsible for;
Creating high quality and robust code. Fully documenting and recording your work products and keeping them under configuration management. Providing plans and reports on progress to your line manager.
Ability to take ownership of a work package, planning your work and delivering within timescales
Completing tasks in accordance with appropriate processes and procedures
Taking an active role in engineering process improvement
Working closely with Hardware and Firmware engineers to solve real integration problems
Essential Expertise
Bachelors or higher (Masters preferred) in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or similar
Proven track record in specification, architecture, development and test
5 years software development experience ideally in C/C
Strong team player with good verbal and written communication skills
Well-versed in version control such as SVN or GIT
Experience in bug review/change control processes
Desirable Expertise
GUI development using cross-platform tool chains such as Qt, Matlab etc
Experience with real-time processing hardware or embedded software
Experience of scientific languages such as Matlab
Development and maintenance of device drivers
Ability to conceive and implement multi-threaded processing applications and handle large volumes of data
Proficiency working in Windows and Linux environment
Able to demonstrate experience in areas of the software lifecycle; from requirements definition through to implementation, integration test, delivery and resultant documentation
Experience of customer/supplier relations and working within multi-discipline project teams
Understanding of Software Configuration Management tools eg. TRAC/JIRA
Experience gained within the Electronics sector
Salary: Negotiable and based on experience
Location: Edinburgh commutable (Hybrid or full time office based)
We look forward to hearing from you.
Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Engineering
Industries
Engineering Services
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