Embedded Systems Engineer, Engineering, London, United Kingdom

• Organization: BBOXX
• Country: United Kingdom
• City: London
• Office: BBOXX HQ London
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London, United Kingdom · Engineering
Description
BBOXX is a UK based venture-backed company providing an affordable, upgradeable solar solution to meet off-grid customers' energy needs. We are fully vertically integrated, controlling every part of our customer experience. Our market leading products and appliances coupled with our SMART Solar platform bring machine-learning and customer experience optimisation to rural Africa. Our ground-breaking financing structure has brought off-grid solar into the World's financial markets. Whilst our human centred design approach to our retail business ensures that the BBOXX ecosystem is poised to massively scale during 2017. With over 100,000 systems deployed so far, 400 staff across 5 offices in China, UK and East Africa are waking up every morning to work with BBOXX to electrify 20 million people by 2020. We invite you to join us on this journey to electrify rural Africa.
As an Embedded Systems Engineer at BBOXX you will be based in our London office, where you will work alongside a growing team of Software Developers, Hardware Designers and Designers to develop the next generation of BBOXX products to help connected Solar Powered devices to the cloud, enabling them to be sold affordably on service plans across the world. All BBOXX products are connected over the internet to our backend software through which we have the ability to remotely upgrade the firmware running on devices. In this role your will be working on delivering improvements to devices already deployed as well as developing firmware for new products. You may also be working on the ecosystem around the products such as desktop tools used for diagnosing systems issues in our repair centres and production facilities.
Requirements
You should have all of:

• Proficiency in C development
• Ability to develop software for resource constrained embedded systems
• Familiarity with RTOS based development
• Ability to read and understand schematics, especially for low power electronics
• Some experience working with wireless communications technologies such as GSM or Bluetooth
• Understanding of ARM based microcontrollers such as STM32F4 familly

And ideally some of:

• Experience of development for large volume consumser electronics devices
• Knowledge of IoT protocols such as CoAP, MQTT, HTTP
• Remote Firmware upgrades
• Understanding of testing processes and tools for embedded systems
• Basic understand of desktop software development.
• Proficiency in Python development

Benefits

• Competitive Salary based on experience
• Free breakfasts on Monday morning plus fresh fruit, hot drinks and biscuits every day.
• Working in BBOXX's start up culture - fast pace of development, lots of responsibility, opportunities to learn and implement your own ideas.
• BBOXX Sandboxx days - once a fortnight day to work on a self-driven project that you believe could have a benefit to your work or BBOXX generally.
• Regular socials - BBOXX organises once monthly social events which can be proposed by anyone on the team. This could be anything from a picnic in the park to pottery painting or the regular pub quiz.
• BBOXX will cover the cost of appropriate training courses to help you develop and learn new skills relevant for your role.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.