Electronics Engineer

About ZELP

ZELP is an agricultural technology company committed to creating a sustainable future for agriculture - one that meets the needs of present and future generations, promoting human and environmental health, animal welfare, and social and economic equity.

Our first focus is to develop and scale technology that measures and mitigates methane emissions in the livestock industry. Today, 1.3 billion people rely on the industry for their livelihoods and food security. However, it is the single biggest human-driven source of methane emissions globally, emitting more than both the oil & gas industry and the coal industry.

The deployment of our technologies on a global scale has the potential to drive half the global methane reduction needed by 2030, and to transform the beef and dairy industries.

ZELP was an inaugural winner of the Terra Carta Design Lab, and has received funding and support from the European Commission, Innovate UK, The Global Methane Hub and the Gates Foundation.

About the role

ZELP is looking for an experienced Electronics Engineer to join Zelp Sense team, and collaborate in the development of our wearable device's electronics and other projects. You will play a key role in designing, creating, and testing high quality electronics for our products using MCU, MPUs, sensors, optimize for high efficiency, low power consumption and communicating long range low power radio to our cloud infrastructure, along with testable design and preparation for mass production.

Primary responsibilities

Your main duties will include:

• Feature analysis, architecture, design, component selection and circuit design to meet cost and manufacturability.
• Schematic and PCB layout design, component and footprint creation in Altium.
• Hardware fault analysis and design for safety. Design validation and testing.
• Experience in design for EMC, compliance with standards and testing.
• Contributing to firmware development, supporting BSP/Driver development, features, required calculations, radio stacks and power consumption optimization.
• Task planning, prioritization, proactive monitoring and compliance with scheduled delivery dates.
• Development and support of hardware programming, verification and calibration in mass production.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in electronics development of modern devices or commercial products.
• 3+ years of experience with Altium Designer, schematic, component library management, multi-layered layout.
• Peripheral configuration, coding and debugging experience of ARM Cortex M processors.
• Experience with LP Radios and wireless protocols: BLE, LoRa, NFC, Zigbee, etc.
• Experience in network communications and IOT: UDP/TCP/IP, MQTT, LWM2M, HTTP, REST.
• Experience with electronic communication standards: RS232, I2C, SPI, USB, etc.
• Experience with product compliance (RED/CE/FCC) - testing, documentation, certification.
• Experience with product testing harness and documentation.
• Experience with low power electronics design

Plus experience with the following would be a bonus

• Experience developing PC apps to interact with hardware, C#/Python programming experience.
• NI LabView for quick prototype, lab testing and test harness.
• Experience with RISC-V processors.
• Hardware test harness and firmware development for automated tests in mass production.
• Embedded Linux experience, Kernel cross-compilation for ARM Cortex A processors, DT, U-boot, driver development.