Über diese Senior Firmware Engineer Stelle bei Brompton Bicycle
About us
The Brompton is acknowledged worldwide as the finest bike of its type and this excellence, combined with resurgence in cycling for transport means we are enjoying strong, sustained growth. If we are to continue to thrive, we need to recruit great people who can drive innovation of our products and the processes used to make them. We are proud of our bikes and enjoy using them. We export 80% of our production to 44 countries around the globe and intend to produce over 100,000 bikes this year but believe that we are just getting started.
Brompton Bicycle manufactures in its factory in West London a bike that is generally considered the best portable bike there is. The company is privately-owned, successful, and profitable, and we have good relationships with our distributors and users.
If you have huge enthusiasm, thrive on being given responsibility and want to make great products that make a difference to people’s lives we can offer you a job you will not find anywhere else.
The Role
The Firmware Engineer role takes on the challenge of delivering robust embedded software for existing and future Brompton Electric products and will give you the opportunity to be involved in the full product lifecycle of our electric bikes, from prototype development to production and manufacturing.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, test and maintain embedded software for Brompton Electric products
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design and ship new features
- Write clean, scalable and efficient code
- Debug and resolve technical issues
- Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge with team members as part of our agile software development process
Who you are:
- Engineer with proven experience in developing embedded software applications
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
- Proficient in C++
- Have experience with embedded communication protocols BLE, CAN, I2C, UART, SPI
- Preferably, have experience with functional safety development (ISO 13849 or ISO 26262)
- Preferably, have experience with electric motors/inverter drives
- Preferably, have experience with RTOS-based application development
- Optionally, have used Python for developing tools
- Optionally, have experience with security for embedded applications
- Have used CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/Docker)
- Comfortable with version control systems (e.g. Git).
- An awareness of Health and Safety law and best practice.
- Have the right to Work in the UK.
Why Brompton?
Because we make bikes that surprise and delight, we want people who do the same. Your work matters. You’ll get hands-on, tackle real problems, and see the results on the streets, on the train and across cities around the world. At Brompton, craft, curiosity and community come together every day and you’ll be part of it.
Benefits at Brompton:
Brompton offers you an excellent working environment with enthusiastic colleagues who get along, communicate and co-operate well with each other. The working climate is informal, but we work hard. Next to good terms of employment, Brompton offers you the opportunity to work in a responsible and challenging job within a dynamic, international and ambitious environment. We are all proud to be part of Brompton Bicycle Ltd; we all share the same passion and dedication to the company and the product, despite any differences in cultural backgrounds and skills.
9 Day Fortnight – This is a flexible working pattern which individuals can opt in for where an employee works their contractual hours across 9 days instead of 10 days. (i.e. 80 hours across 9 days instead of 10 days). This mean the individual would work an additional hour across Monday to Thursday (across the 2 week period) to gain their Friday off
Annual Leave – 25 days annual leave, plus all UK bank holidays, prorated
Competitive Salary – Plus workplace pension scheme and profit share bonus.
Brompton Discount - Get ready to bike in style, as all employee’s receive up to 60% off their very own bike and accessories, plus there are discounts for your friends and family too.
Staff Loan Bike – All employees are eligible to receive a Brompton Bicycle which they can use free of charge for up to 3 months
Free Breakfast – Unlimited, all-day access to an array of fruit and cereal
Breakout Areas – Unwind on the mezzanine floor which contains a ping-pong, foosball and pool table and other games like darts and a giant Connect-4!
Learning and Development - Access to free LinkedIn Learning and opportunity to devote some of your time at work to personal development. We value professional development and actively promote internal promotions and opportunities.
Benefits - Workplace Pension Scheme, Flexible Working, Cycle to Work Scheme and other benefits.
Mental Health – We provide access to a confidential EAP that offers counselling, resources and support for various mental health challenges.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Commitment
Regardless of age, disability, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, culture, educational background, parental status, neurodiversity or disability - whoever you are, if you’re passionate about your work, curious, relentless and customer-obsessed, we want to hear from you.
Our Values
We Take Pride - Quality is born in the details
We Build Community - A Brompton brings people together
We Are Human - Being ourselves create magic
We Are Curious - Inspiration is everywhere
We Bring Energy - Our movement and momentum are infectious
