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Location: Shannon, Co. Clare, Ireland Reports To: CTO Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent, Onsite The Opportunity Ei Electronics is a top three global brand in smoke and carbon monoxide sensing with a growing base of connected products and environmental sensing technology. We are now asking ourselves what the next generation of life-safety technology will look like and investing deeply in frontier innovation. At Ei Electronics, we want to explore that question by building, experimenting and turning new ideas into working technology. We are looking for an ambitious and curious Future Technologies Engineer to join our new Global Innovation Centre in Shannon. This is not a conventional engineering role focused on maintaining existing products or delivering incremental changes. It is an opportunity to work at the very early stages of innovation — exploring technologies, developing prototypes, testing new concepts and helping create new intellectual property that could shape the future of life safety. You could be investigating a new sensing technology one week, building an electronic prototype the next, and developing embedded software or experimenting with a completely new product concept after that. Some ideas will develop into future Ei products. Others may prove that a particular technology or approach doesn't work. Both are part of innovation. We are looking for someone who enjoys making things, solving difficult problems and finding out whether an idea can actually work. Key Responsibilities You will work within Ei's Innovation Centre on early-stage technologies and concepts, taking ideas from initial investigation through to functional prototypes and proof-of-concept systems. Your work will include: - Exploring emerging technologies that could create new opportunities in life safety, sensing and the connected home. - Turning ideas and concepts into working electronic prototypes. - Designing and developing analogue and digital electronic circuits. - Creating schematics and PCB designs for experimental and prototype hardware. - Developing embedded firmware for microcontroller-based systems. - Specifying and building application software and end user apps to leverage insights in the home and beyond. - Experimenting with sensors, wireless technologies, new materials, algorithms and other emerging technologies. - Building proof-of-concept systems to quickly determine whether an idea is technically viable. - Designing experiments, analysing results and using what you learn to improve the next iteration. - Developing new technical concepts and contributing to the creation of new intellectual property and patents. - Researching technologies outside our traditional product areas and identifying where they could be applied to future life-safety products. - Working with universities, technology partners and other researchers where specialist knowledge or collaboration can accelerate an idea. - Demonstrating prototypes and communicating your findings to technical and business teams. - Helping successful concepts progress from experimentation towards future product development.
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