Senior Embedded Engineer - Wearable Development

Location: St Philips, Bristol, UK Contract Type: Permanent Hours: Full Time Salary: £50,000-60,000 dependent on experience

About Us

Carbometrics is a specialist chemistry company based in Bristol, UK. Our core competency is the design, synthesis, and derivatisation of highly selective and robust carbohydrate-binding molecules. Our mission is to help people with diabetes to live more normal and longer lives. We are using our proprietary Biomimetic Glucose Binding Molecules (GBM) to develop a new glucose sensor chemistry that will enable market-leading Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGM).

About the role

The successful candidate will work as part of a small engineering team supporting the research and development of Carbometrics technology. We are looking for someone to lead the electronics and firmware development of prototype Wearable Devices that demonstrate the company’s core technology.

The candidate should be hands-on and able to work independently, adaptable to ideas and change, resourceful and self-motivated.

The role is based within our highly innovative team in Bristol’s only dedicated scientific incubator: Science Creates (St Phillips Incubator) (see Science Creates - A Home for Deep Tech in Bristol for more details). Carbometrics is a young, growing company and will offer the successful candidate an interesting and enjoyable work environment with a highly motivated team of scientists plus an opportunity to grow and develop scientific skills and experience.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced embedded engineer join a fast-growing MedTech company at the forefront of wearable healthcare innovation. You’ll play a key role in developing life-changing technology and be part of a collaborative team making a real difference to patient outcomes.

Roles and Responsibilities

Core:

• Develop prototype wearable devices for clinical trials with an eye on transferring to volume manufacturing• Effectively communicate progress and blockers to the company without getting bogged down in technobabble• Collaborate with cross-functional teams• Maintain clear and thorough documentation across development and throughout testing processes

Additional:

• Maintain an excellent safety culture by timely reporting of all safety incidents and learning events• Assist the team to ensure procedures are developed and kept up to date• Build strong, positive working relationships with team members• Actively contribute to continuous improvement by developing ideas to improve personnel safety, environmental aspects and process improvement.• Ability to work in and adapt to a high ambiguity, rapidly changing environment.

Essential Skills:

• Knowledge of bare metal microcontroller and embedded C development• Excellent numeracy, literacy, and computer skills.• Proficiency in key MS Office programs (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint).• Ability to work independently with good time management.

Experience

Essential:

• Knowledge of common Embedded interfaces such as DMA, SPI, I2C• Experience with commonly available low-power BLE SOC microcontrollers e.g. Nordic, TI, Dialog• Experience in Designing Analog Front Ends and PCB layouts for low noise• Experience with BLE GATT profiles• Experience in reading datasheets and implementing drivers• Experience with Schematic Design and PCB layout in CAD, preferably KiCAD• Experience bringing up, debugging and testing Dev boards and prototype devices• Experience working with Mobile App developers

Desirable

• Experience designing flexi-PCBs• Experience developing test rigs using Rapid development techniques e.g Python, Arduino, Raspberry Pi• Experience in optical sensing technology implementation e.g. Photodiodes, Delta Sigma conversion, Integrating ADC, Quadrature demodulation• Experience with Optical Bench testing and equipment e.g. Spectrometer, power meters• Experience developing lightweight Android Mobile App test programs• Experience with High volume Contract Manufacturers and ATE requirements• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing• Experience in embedded cybersecurity• Experience working under a Quality Management System e.g. ISO9001, ISO13485

Education and Qualification

• Relevant Degree in Software or Electrical Engineering preferred• Interested Candidates without a formal Degree but significant relevant experience should still apply.• 5+ years in Embedded Hardware Design and Firmware Programming required• To qualify for this position the candidate will need to be authorised to live and work in the UK

At Carbometrics we value diversity. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome employees who meet the requirements of the job regardless of gender, ethnic origin, disability, age, religion or sexual orientation

You may also have experience in the following: Embedded Hardware Engineer, Electronics Engineer, Wearable Device Engineer, Prototype Development Engineer, Embedded Systems Developer, Embedded C Developer, Firmware & Hardware Developer, Embedded IoT Engineer, R&D engineer

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