Engineer, Senior - Cork, Ireland

Location: Cork, Ireland

Department: ASICS Engineering

Work Location: onsite

Company:

QT Technologies Ireland Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

Sensors-based technology has a wide range of applications including navigation, gaming, smart user interface, multimedia, virtual reality, and augmented reality. This challenging position offers the opportunity to work with leading edge sensor technologies embedded in smartphones, automotive, XR / AR, IOT, smartwatches as well as other consumer electronics devices. Job activities span the whole product life cycle from early R&D to commercial deployment. The successful candidate will work with systems, software, and integration and test engineers in the QCT Sensors team.

*Please note this role will require 5 days per week onsite in our Cork office*

Job responsibilities include:

• Embedded software development in C and C++, ideally in new modern C++ standards, for fixed and floating-point based designs.

• Unit testing and system testing using modern frameworks like Google Test.

• Architecting software frameworks and modules on a variety of cores like CPU, embedded MCU, and GPU.

• Implementing system algorithms, performance testing, debugging, verifying, and optimizing the implementations. Creating reports on algorithm evaluation results and delivering complete design and user documentation.

• Balancing engineering trade-offs between performance, memory, power consumption, and computational complexity.

• Programming in one interpreted language (e.g. Python).

• Using your familiarity with SOC architecture, assist in the design of SOC HW models and related tools.

• New technology demonstrations, interfacing with customers and sensor vendors, and partnering with internal and external teams.

The position is technology focused and involves participation in a broad range of sensors systems engineering activities within the Sensors Technologies group.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with the development of compilers, interpreters, and SW toolchains.

• Familiarity with hardware architectures such as CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs.

• Experience with RTOS and modifying device drivers.

• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.

• Detail oriented, taking a thorough and analytical approach, producing complete documentation.

Where you will be working

Cork has a proud reputation as Ireland's second largest economic engine and is now one of the Top 20 location choices in Europe with 39,000 people being employed by over 170 overseas companies.
There's a growing diversity in the region with people from many nationalities relocating to Cork, relishing the opportunity to work and live in a location that offers an excellent quality of life.
A gateway to Europe, Cork airport provides access to almost 50 international destinations including transatlantic air routes.

What's on Offer

Apart from working in an open, relaxed and collaborative space, you will enjoy:

• Salary, stock and performance related bonus

• Maternity/Paternity Leave

• Employee stock purchase scheme

• Matching pension scheme

• Education Assistance

• Relocation and immigration support (if needed)

• Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance

• Subsidised memberships for physical and mental well-being

• Bicycle purchase scheme

• Employee run clubs, including, running, football, chess, badminton + many more

Keywords

MATLAB, C, C++, Python, RTOS, embedded software, digital signal processing (DSP), compiler, statistical signal processing, machine learning, sensors, accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, inertial sensors (IMU), embedded systems.

*References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.

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