Embedded Software Engineer

About the role

Kickmaker is a high-tech product design and industrialization agency.

We support our customers from prototype to production run in our main vertical markets (medical, new mobility, electrification, agrotech, robotics, IOT and consumer devices) and our cross-disciplinary skills (embedded AI, high-tech manufacturing automation, eco-design, industrial design and WEB 3.0 for the economy of functionality).

We're evolving with a real maker culture! Passion, excitement and kindness are the pillars of KICKMAKER. This team and community spirit has enabled us to shape a unique corporate culture. Our approach: to enable everyone to fulfill their potential by working on exciting projects, and to encourage autonomy and initiative.

Present in France, China and the United States, our community counts over 250 passionate kickers and keeps growing. It is in this context that we are looking to strengthen our team in Boston, Seattle and San Fransisco.

As a Software Engineer, you will be in charge of supporting software development on the projects entrusted to you.

Your responsibilities will include :

· Definition of project requirements, based on customer needs

· Firmware/software design and development

· Unit testing, functional testing & documentation

· Integration and continuous deployment

· Iterative sprint cycle, taking into account customer feedback

· Guarantee the quality of established processes and compliance with current HSE standards

· Help define eco-design and industrial relocation approaches

· Participate in/implement/perform product life-cycle analysis to improve the CSR impact of products.

Required profile :

· Graduate of an engineering school or master's degree in embedded computing

· Successful experience in firmware development for an embedded product

· Microcontroller development in C, C++ on STM32, ESP32, Nordic targets...

· Embedded Linux development (Qt, yocto, Zephyr...)

· Development of test tools (python, C#, java...)

· Knowledge of or familiarities with various technologies, such as :

- Communication bus : UART, I2C, SPI, CAN, RS-232, RS-485

- Wireless communication: BLE, LoRa, LTE

· Electronics skills (schematic reading, oscilloscope, logic analyzer, etc.)

· Good knowledge of motor control and servo algorithms is a plus

More generally, the employee shall also ensure the development and maintenance of the company’s brand image with its clients and ensure compliance with applicable procedures, both in the performance of their own duties and with regard to the employees under their supervision.

The employee must remain aware of the responsibilities associated with the performance of their duties and may not claim to have been unaware of them under any circumstances.