A fantastic opportunity for a Degree qualified Senior Hardware Design Engineer with an established high tech Cambridge company offering a competitive salary of up to £44K plus a generous benefits package.

You will be an outstanding Digital Design Engineer with good high speed logic design experience and proven experience of analogue design and Verilog design, together with familiarity with schematics and PCB CAD packages. Exposure to C++ and Assembler would also be highly beneficial.

You will work closely with customers to generate technical requirements specifications and to run feasibility studies prior to the commencement of projects. You will technically lead projects and designs ensuring delivery on time and to the required standards. The role will also involve working with chip packaging and design groups to ensure the company's chips are optimised for their intended environments.

As a Senior Hardware Design Engineer, you will be qualified to a minimum of a 2.1 Hons in Electronics Engineering and will have proven experience of working within a semiconductor environment.

As a Senior Engineer you will be well organised, a good communicator and be able to multi-task efficiently whilst confidently leading a small team of engineers.

Key requirements:

Excellent Hardware Design skills.
Expert Digital Design/ High Speed Logic Design skills.
Good Verilog Design skills.
Good C++ and/or Assembler.
Schematics and PCB CAD packages.

This is a rewarding opportunity for a self motivated and talented Senior Hardware Design Engineer to join an established Cambridge Company.

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Summary: Excellent opportunity for a customer-facing materials scientist with a US passport to join this leading software company. Cambridge or US, to £34k + US travel + exceptional benefits.

Our client is a leading name in materials science software for academia, education and commercial use. Their materials science software is used by some of the leading names in sectors as diverse as aerospace, defence, energy, medical, electronics and petrochemical, to assess the benefits of different materials. Using their software tools materials can be selected on a wide range of metrics including chemical and physical properties, biocompatibility, environmental impact, cost and more.

Due to the ongoing success of their products they now have an opportunity for a customer-facing materials scientist to work closely with their US customers. You will travel to sites in the US to help customers implement their software and to provide on-site consultancy and training. The ideal candidate will have a good degree in materials science, metallurgy, mechanical engineering or similar and will be a US citizen holding a valid US passport. Any knowledge of materials databases and Excel, VBA or SQL would be beneficial.

Preferably this role will be based out of Cambridge, UK although exceptional candidates who wish to be based in the US will also be considered.

As well as a competitive salary and pleasant offices in central Cambridge your benefits will include a extraordinarily generous company pension scheme, income protection, death in service, health cover and/or gym membership, employer supported childcare, a cycle to work scheme, share options and flexible working hours.

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Summary: Data Mining company seeks Systems Admin/Support Engineer, mostly Linux but some Windows/Unix, to £40k, Cambridge.

This growing company is looking for a talented System Administrator to take responsibility for their IT infrastructure and internal IT support. The role is varied and demanding, covering a wide range of system administration and IT support functions across the whole company, including:

· Server hardware and software installation and maintenance, including a role in specification and purchasing
· Administration and monitoring of all network & security services, including hardware and software infrastructure as well as user-level services, such as web and mail
· Planning for upgrades and rolling out of new services
· First-line IT support for internal users, including assistance with desktop, laptop, PDA hardware and software issues
· Deployment & maintenance of servers for internal and remote use
· Support for internal business units in choosing and deploying IT services
· Provision of self-service help for end users via internal Wiki, and documentation of system admin procedures, disaster recovery strategy, etc.

You MUST live within close proximity to Cambridge as the role involves out of hours cover. You will be a fast learner with broad experience of systems administration and will have the following attributes:

· Good communication skills, with a pro-active, problem-solving attitude and ability to work in a team
· Experience of multiple platforms and operating systems – Linux, Solaris, Windows (Server, Vista, XP) – as well as a variety of hardware and virtualisation
· Thorough knowledge of networking and security: firewalls, naming services, mail servers, webservers, Sharepoint, and web-based services
· Solid understanding of installation/management/backup of fileservers and databases, e.g. SAN, NFS, Samba, MySQL etc.
· Some experience of programming or scripting, e.g. Perl, bash, PHP
· Good degree or postgraduate qualification in a numerate discipline

Keywords: Systems Administration, IT Support, Cambridge, Linux, Windows, Solaris.

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Summary: Very bright Technical Architect needed for intelligent search product. C++, Boost, Distributed Systems. Central Cambridge to £70k + stock options

Our client is looking for a very bright, creative, and highly experienced Technical Architect who specializes in designing robust and scalable systems. They don’t mind which sector your have gained your experience in, as long as you can show experience of designing and implementing high performance architectures.

You will be:

* Designing significant enhancements to the existing product architecture.
* Analyzing the way in which the system will behave under future growth in data and traffic.
* Mentoring developers in scalability techniques.

You will have:

* Robust and extensive multi-threaded programming experience using C++ (Boost & STL), and possibly other object orientated languages such as Java.
* Ability to architect solutions to complex problems from basic requirements.
* Knowledge of UNIX socket programming and Internet networking protocols.
* Some experience of MySQL replication in distributed applications.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fast growing exciting company.

Keywords: C++, Boost, STL, UNIX, Java, MySQL, Virtualisation, networking protocols, object orientated analysis and design, scalable systems, analysis, Cambridge, architecture,

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Summary: Great opportunity for strong Kernel developers with experience of Linux or Windows Kernel internals, memory management, device driver integration, block subsystem and network subsystem. Cambridge, to 60k plus extensive benefits.

This dynamic, global software company offer a professional but relaxed atmosphere, with flexible hours and outstanding benefits. With further growth, their exceptionally strong technical team in central Cambridge now seek additional talented, ambitious and self-motivated engineers.

In addition to an outstanding academic record, you must have solid experience of Kernel internals, including memory management, device driver integration, block and network subsystems. Extremely strong knowledge of x86 architecture including low level aspects such as MMU, multiprocessor environments and interrupt handling, as well as strong C and x86 assembler experience, are also required.

This is a fantastic opportunity, contact us today for more details.

Skill Set: Kernel, C, x86 assembler, Virtual Memory Management.

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ECM is a well-respected, established technical recruitment company specialising in those difficult to find positions in the high-tech sector. We guarantee that your details will be treated as confidential and will not be submitted to any company without your full knowledge and approval. Further information on how we operate is available on http://www.ecmselection.co.uk/for-candidates/candidate-brochure.html

This dynamic, global software company offer a professional but relaxed atmosphere, with flexible hours and outstanding benefits. With further growth, their strong R&D technical team in Cambridge now seek additional talented, ambitious and self-motivated engineers to work on the continued development of leading-edge applications. They offer fantastic facilities and a superb team-based environment.

Outstandingly bright, and numerate, with solid experience across a range of high-level languages (ideally C, Python, Ocaml, Haskell) you should have a strong grounding in computer science - data structures / design / algorithms. Career development is diverse, and this is a great way to get involved from the ground up.

In addition to an attractive salary / extensive benefits package, and a stimulating working environment - the role offers great career progression prospects as part of a leading-edge development team.

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Challenging new role for a Digital Design Engineer with a leading Cambridge Company. The successful applicant will receive a competitive salary of up to £39k together with generous benefits

Applicants must be qualified to Degree level in Electronics Engineering, Science or Mathematics and have a proven background of Digital Design preferably within a Semiconductor environment.

You must have excellent digital design and verification experience together with solid RTL coding skills. As well as competence in Digital Design and RTL coding, experience of FPGA design for ASIC emulation would be a distinct advantage as would experience of the Digital Physical Design flow for SoC ASIC. Familiarity with development in C for embedded processors is also beneficial.
Key skills/experience:
- Digital Design & Verification techniques.
- RTL Coding.
- FPGA design.
- Knowledge of analogue and RF design for SoC ASIC.
- C development.

If you are a well qualified Digital Design Engineer and are seeking a challenging new position with am acknowledged market leader offering a rewarding salary package - please contact us for full details.

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This is a great chance to work for one of the most innovative and technologically advanced UK Companies and be rewarded with a highly competitive salary of up to £65K dependent upon your experience and supported by a comprehensive benefits package.

The successful Principal Digital Designer will pay an integral part in the design, implementation and verification of the company's range of wireless chips including some coordination with analogue and software departments. As a Principal Engineer you will be an excellent team leader and will have the ability to share your technical expertise with other engineers and confidently solve complex problems as required.

You must be fully competent with digital design and verification techniques as well as having excellent RTL coding skills. You will also ideally have a proven track record of FPGA design for ASIC emulation as well as having an appreciation of Digital Physical Design flow for System on Chip ASIC.

With at least a 2.1 Hons Degree in Electronics, Science or Mathematics you should have proven experience of delivering complex tasks on time.

Key Skills required:
Good Technical Degree.
Proven team leadership skills.
Expert Digital Design.
Fully competent in RTL coding.
FPGA design for ASIC emulation.
Digital Physical Design flow SoC ASIC.
Knowledge of Analogue & RF Design for SoC ASIC.
Appreciation of C development.

If you are seeking a Principal Digital Design Engineer role with a leading Cambridge company offering great future potential and a top class salary package - please apply today.

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An exciting opportunity in financial software development has arisen with our Cambridge based client.

This is an excellent opening for a bright C++/C# developer to gain valuable finance knowledge while continuing to increase their technical skills. Any knowledge of finance would be beneficial but is not essential.

The successful candidate will be involved in developing new projects mainly in C# and supporting existing projects in C++ and C#.

You should be experienced in object oriented design, and you'll need to have good communication skills, a proven ability to pick up complex ideas quickly and enjoy the mix of banking, software and mathematical challenges our clients face on a daily basis.

A very strong academic background is essential: 1st or 2.1 degree from highly regarded university in a numerate subject. Excellent A-level grades.

Strong C++/C#. Good knowledge of several of SQL, .NET, COM, ATL, MFC, XML, Web Services.

Our clients are seeking a technology enthusiast who is passionate and strives to do things the 'right way'. Only the best need apply!

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Summary: Growing Cambridge based company developing unique voice transaction solutions, Java, C, to £35k.

This growing, high technology company is developing solutions based on the natural process of voice communication. Working with blue chip clients they seek to revolutionise the transaction process by allowing secure transactions by recognising who you are, rather than what is being said. They now seek further software engineers to develop solutions in a Java, EJB and C environment to interface with communication systems.

You will have a good degree in a numerate subject and have developed robust, well
documented object oriented software. Ideally you will have been writing software in Java (although solid OO C++ will be considered) and have good C skills. You must be familiar with writing software which interacts with databases (such as Sybase, Oracle). You will be a good team member and be happy to ‘roll your sleeves up’ to get the job done. Any experience with Apache, Enterprise Java Beans, payment transaction, VoIP and/or IVR will be useful.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic development company at the cutting edge of technology.

Summary: Java, EJB, C, OO, C++, Cambridge, Databases, Oracle, Sybase, VoIP, Voice.

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