Graduate Development Engineer

You''ll be working on an exciting new technology that is set to disrupt the worldwide industrial drives market, enabling process optimisation in manufacturing industries through energy reduction that will significantly reduce operating costs and CO2 emissions. The technology within the drive is highly innovative (only one other company in the world has commercially exploited it) as it allows direct conversion from fixed voltage, fixed frequency AC mains to a variable voltage, variable frequency output to the motor. It can also transfer energy to and from the load (motor). You''ll be working on the design and development of electronic sub-systems for a range of AC motor controllers (''drives'') that are used in industrial processes across the world (80% of company output is exported). Your work will include: embedded firmware for 32-bit microcontrollers and PC-based applications, schematic capture, PCB design, design validation, and integration testing. The business has received investment to date totalling £4.4M to accelerate commercialisation. The investors are expecting the business to grow by a factor of ten over the next five years. So it''s a good time to be joining them. LEARNING, DEVELOPMENT, AND FUTURE PROSPECTS Graduates have done well in the business: one was promoted to senior development engineer within 14 months. And the manager of the team was promoted internally. You will be working as part of a small research and development team, comprising software, ..... full job details .....