Firmware Engineer

The engineer will initially focus on building product knowledge through software testing activities, including test-case design, execution & analysis, and documentation.

Overall Duties for this role include:

- Design and Develop embedded software for optical fibre switching components and subsystems.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews and task allocation meetings.
- Test embedded software for optical switches, monitoring devices and related products.
- Design and automate unit tests to validate functionality and reliability.
- Analyse fault reports, prepare test systems to diagnose the root cause of any anomalies, and document findings.
- Software Engineering or Computer Science degree or equivalent, preferably with honours.
- At least 2 years of experience in developing C software for embedded systems (specially high-performance)
- Strong skills in at least one scripting language like Python or Bash
- Enthusiastic approach to debugging complex problems and validating solutions.
- Familiarity with hardware design.
- Familiar with FPGAs and common electrical test equipment.
- Desirable but not compulsory to have experience in developing embedded linux device drivers and Python.
- Ideal but not compulsory to understand optical telco systems and be familiar with common optical test equipment.

The experience range for this position could vary between a recently graduated with a couple of years of experience to someone with an intermediate level who aims to become a Senior in the next year or so. We want to see what you could bring to the table - and the salary would change accordingly.

This position is based in the magical city of Sydney and the person is expected to be already living there or willing to move. We can only consider applicants with the right to work/live in Australia or NZ