This successful company is a global leader in their field, although their Cambridge office still has the feel of a dynamic start-up. With further growth, they are now recruiting for a brand new wireless project. You will work as part of an extremely strong technical team within a well resourced development environment where innovation is encouraged.

This role calls for a very strong academic background (1st or 2.1 from a top university / good A levels) and a solid record of achievement.

You will be responsible for designing and implementing the key algorithms of the physical layer of 3G wireless products. This includes modulation / demodulation and media access layers.

With solid experience of DSP programming for wireless applications you should also ideally offer some exposure to WCDMA physical or MAC layers.

This is superb opportunity for career development with a well-respected company.

Key skills: Bright / good qualifications, Wireless DSP, 3G, WCDMA, Algorithm Design / Implementation.

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious Project Manager.

Offering a high level of diversity and interest, you will manage challenging and often very complex wireless product developments covering a range of applications including consumer goods, healthcare, telecommunications and automotive.

The position involves the management of projects through the complete development lifecycle, from requirements definition through to final delivery. These projects typically consisting of multidisciplinary teams (including hardware, software, digital signal processing, mechanics and production engineering). You will be involved in proposal preparation, selection of the team, negotiations with 3rd parties, managing concept generation, analysis of the system architecture, liaison across engineering disciplines and the specification, implementation and testing of the design.

You will manage projects typically in the region £10k to £3M that require delivery within tight timescales and budgets, managing both internal and external resources.

With a good degree in engineering, you will have substantial industrial experience working in wireless product design and development. Project management experience is essential. Other attributes include:

• Understanding of the wireless product development process
  
• Experience in managing products through manufacture
  
• Familiarity with managing multi-disciplinary projects (RF, analogue, digital, software, mechanics)
  
• Working knowledge and experience of the wireless regulatory and type approval environment desirable
  
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
  

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Summary: Growing technology consultancy seeks high calibre Wireless Hardware Consultants for a wide range of projects, Cambridge, to £60k.

This growing company seeks to strengthen their wireless team and you will work directly with clients on a variety of operating assignments, providing innovative technical consultancy and developing creative technical solutions. This role will involve the development of digital electronic platforms and technology enablers for clients in telecom, automotive, and defence sectors, new business development and technology management.

With a good degree in a relevant subject, you will have a strong technical background, especially within PHY/L1 Wireless Communications technology development using FPGA and/or ASICs, with expertise in VHDL, (Verilog is an advantage); a understanding of what makes a complete product work to deliver “right-first-time” solutions efficiently. You should have a system engineering view, that is, electronic design from concept through to production; expertise in microprocessors/controllers and peripherals; experience of embedded real-time systems and working to wireless communications standards (3GPP etc) and understanding of evolving standards. Ideally you will have experience in the ASIC design process and technology, embedded real-time software, mathematical simulation tools (e.g. Matlab); and/or designing and implementing wireless algorithms and performance requirements.

You will be self motivated and have excellent client liaison skills.

Keyword: FPGA, ASIC, VHDL, electronics, microprocessors, Cambridge, consultant, 2:1, 1st.

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Summary: Top Consultancy seeks high calibre Wireless Network Consultants, Cambridge, to £60k.

This growing company seeks to strengthen their wireless technology team and you will work directly with clients on a variety of operating assignments in network design, architecture, strategy, operations and network planning within the mobile telecoms industry.

With a degree level in relevant discipline (eg. Engineering, Physics or Computing) with a technical background, either in Embedded Technologies or IT, you will bring:
· Experience and understanding of a broad range of technologies including: Radio Access Network, core network, services network, 2G, 3G, LTE, and WIMAX and other wireless technologies
· Project management experience with experience of project delivery
· A strong selling and influencing ability

You will be self motivated and target driven, a strong team worker and effective relationship builder with team leadership skills to be able to direct and define work structure. You must be willing to travel on business. In the majority of cases, assignments will be in the UK but opportunities do exist to work on foreign assignments.

This is an excellent opportunity for you to work in this dynamic environment at the cutting edge of technology.

Keywords: RAN, 2G, 3G, Wireless Networks, Cambridge, consultant, 2:1, 1st.

This successful company is a global leader in their field, although their Cambridge office still has the feel of a dynamic start-up. With further growth, they are now recruiting for a brand new wireless project. You will work as part of an extremely strong technical team within a well resourced development environment where innovation is encouraged.

This role calls for a very strong academic background (1st or 2.1 from a top university / good A levels) and a solid record of achievement.

You will be responsible for porting and optimizing the higher layer of the 3G protocol stack to an embedded Linux environment. In addition to solid C/C++ skills, you should have a good understanding of TCP/IP and some exposure to 3G Network Protocols.

This is superb opportunity for career development with a well-respected company.

Key skills: Bright / good qualifications, C/C++, 3G Protocol Stack, TCP/IP, Embedded Linux

Summary: High calibre engineer with experience of road user charging, vehicle location/transport telematics, sought by top consultancy. Cambridge, to £70k.

With this leading technology consultancy specialising in a wide range of high technology projects for blue chip clients worldwide. This key role is to work directly with clients on a wide range of assignments in the technology area associated with telematics, road-user charging, transport infrastructure, logistics and distribution. You will need to fit in as a member of a small but powerful team. You will demonstrate initiative, drive and willingness to do whatever it takes to help their clients succeed. Although consultancy experience will be valuable, our client is also interested in candidates with demonstrated track records in road user charging / congestion charging / vehicle location / transport telematics, preferably from working within the public sector or a major vendor.

Educated to degree level and with a strong technical background either in embedded technologies or IT, you will be self motivated and target driven, a strong team worker and effective relationship builder with a strong selling and influencing ability. You must be able to demonstrate a solid project/people management track record in a high-tech complex environment and be willing to travel on business. In the majority of cases, assignments will be in the UK but opportunities do exist to work on foreign assignments.

Our client focuses on creating a motivated, passionate group of people in every rank and role within the company. To achieve this they provide the opportunities, support and training for you to develop yourself to the fullest capability.

Keywords: Embedded, Transport, Telematics, Consultancy, Cambridge.

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Senior Software Developer sought for a world renowned wireless comms company based in Cambridge

Skills required include:

Embedded software, C, assembler, C++, PC applications, perl, python, wireless, communications, protocols, Bluetooth, UWB, Wi-Fi, 802.11, 802.16

You will be a Senior Software Developer for embedded and host platform development, working at the forefront of wireless technologies (UWB, WiFi, WLAN, Bluetooth, etc).

The successful candidate will join a high calibre team designing and developing embedded and host software in embedded C/assembler and C/C++ respectively, for their range of wireless products.

Candidates for this software position will have with a degree or equivalent qualification/experience in maths/science/software/electronics, plus the following:


1. Embedded C & Assembler
2. C/C++ for host platform development
3. Understanding of processor architectures and peripherals
4. Experience of wireless communication protocols such as Bluetooth, UWB or Wi -Fi

This is a fantastic opportunity for a commercially aware, team player to join a top company.

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Summary: Join this leading company and design, develop and implement embedded software for their range of wireless chips.

This involves coding in ‘C’ and assembler within a resource constrained multi-processor environment. You will also develop new features and market driven enhancements to their embedded wireless software stacks – this involves contact with the hardware and host software departments, suppliers and customers.

Key Responsibilities:

Responsible for the development of substantial components of on-chip embedded software;

Analysis and implementation of wireless communication protocols such as Bluetooth, UWB and Wi-Fi. This can involve requirements capture and carrying out technical investigations into potential solutions;

Solves complex problems in a tightly constrained embedded environment;

Person Specification:

Required:
· Deep understanding of embedded software development techniques
· Deep understanding in specific coding language
· Proven ability to design compact/efficient software applications
· Understanding of test techniques
· Experience of debugging embedded software
· Experience of development in ‘C’ for embedded processors
· Ability to take ownership of projects with minimal supervision
· Ability to communicate at all levels
· Degree (or equivalent qualification) in maths/science/software/electronics

Desired:
· Knowledge of Perl, Python or similar scripting languages
· Experience of wireless communication protocols such as Bluetooth, UWB or Wi-Fi
· Experience of other communications protocols
· Hardware experience
· Used Unix/Linux build environments
· Commercial awareness – understands the dynamics of the customer/client relationship

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A fantastic opportunity for a gifted embedded software engineer to join this outstanding group working on software for wireless applications with application areas such as healthcare, telecommunications, industrial and consumer goods. With a top degree, your commercial experience will have given you a good understanding of both hardware and software. You will also have a good understanding of wireless communication systems and source control.

Key skills: Embedded Software, Wireless, Bluetooth.

Summary: Our client manufactures chips, which need to be programmed, configured and tested in development and production environments. They provide software tools to their customers for this purpose, which need to be designed, written, extended and maintained as wireless specifications evolve and new generations of chips are designed. They are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to do this.

Key Responsibilities:
· To maintain, develop, design and create cross-platform software tools as required.
· To learn and work with new standards as they emerge.
· To work closely with test engineers, hardware engineers, other software engineers and field application engineers to identify requirements and solve problems.
· To take responsibility for new and existing tools, and provide informal training to users as required.
· To learn about and understand new and existing firmware, hardware and test systems.

Person Specification:

Required:
· Enthusiasm and proven ability.
· Good teamwork, flexibility and openness to learning on the job.
· Good working knowledge of C and C++.
· Understanding of portability issue between operating systems, processors and compilers.

Desired:
· Knowledge of wireless standards.
· Knowledge of protocol stacks and standard PC peripheral interfaces (RS232, USB, PCI, PCIe etc)
· Good working knowledge of Perl, Python and TCL. Working knowledge of Microsoft Visual Studio and gdb. Experience of remote debugging embedded devices.
· Familiarity with more than one operating system is useful; Win32, WinCE, Linux (desktop or embedded), BSD, OS-X, eCOS, Symbian, QNX, VXWorks, Nucleus.

This is an outstanding opportunity to join a company who are acknowledged leaders in their field.