Embedded Systems Engineer - Humanoid Robotics

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Embedded Systems Engineer - Humanoid Robotics

Engineered Arts, a world leader in advanced humanoid robotic systems is seeking an embedded systems engineer to join their highly talented research and development team. This full-time role is based at our state-of-the-art facility in the beautiful county of Cornwall.

The role covers the following areas:

Embedded systems design

Firmware design using embedded operating systems

Firmware and electronic hardware testing and debugging

Integration, commissioning and design verification on robotic hardware

A candidate is preferred with one or more of the following skills::

Microcontroller firmware design

Development and debugging in C / Embedded C

Use of embedded operating systems - FreeRTOS and/or ChibiOS

Motor control theory

Servo drives

PID tuning techniques

Closed loop control (Speed, position, current)

Brushed DC/BLDC control (PWM, Sinusoidal, Field Oriented Control)

Electronic schematic capture and PCB design

Embedded systems

Motor drive (Brushed and BLDC)

Low noise ADC

Sensor feedback

Board prototyping and fault finding

Knowledge of common communication protocols (physical and application layers)

USB

Ethernet (TCP/IP, UDP)

Board-level (I2C, SPI/SSI)

Other useful skills or experience:

Use of STMicroelectronics STM32 microcontrollers and CubeMX

Experience of Python scripting, C++, Javascript

Use of open source software development environments - UNIX/Linux (Ubuntu), Eclipse IDE, KiCAD, gEDA PCB

Systems design for robotic applications

Practical, hands-on experience of any kind on a personal project or hobby (could be electronics, mechanical, creative, etc)