Embedded / Firmware BLE Engineer

BLE Expert

Location : Leuven

Duration : 12 Months

Start Date : ASAP

A client based in Leuven (Belgium) is looking for an BLE Expert for an initial 12 month contract.

Ideal candidate is someone who can work 3 days on site and 2 days remote.

HOWEVER for an Senior Expert BLE engineer they will be able to offer remote work

The client is looking for a candidate with a strong BLE knowledge. The work is to develop the upper level (application level) of the BLE communication protocol stack which are not yet existing.

To do this, knowledge / understanding / experience of the lower levels is absolutely necessary ( Link Layer and Host stack).

The testing part of the job will be relatively limited to the beginning of the assignment. At that time 50% of the time should be spend within the R&D team which is currently struggling with the validation testing. Helping on this aspect will serve as an introduction to the product for the candidate.

Skills :

• 3-5 years embedded software / firmware development experience, in either the mobile industry or in semiconductors. you are a proud software craftsman,
• Solid BLE 5.X experience, preferably in both Link Layer and Host stack,
• Knowledge of design methods and software engineering processes,
• Microcontroller architectures and peripherals,
• Embedded programming in C,
• Python programming skills
• Building real-time systems on bare metal or using an RTOS,
• Structured debugging,
• Interpretation of PCB schematics.
• Experience with FreeRTOS
• Scripting in Python