CAREERS
Brompton seeks to recruit the most talented individuals to contribute to our continued growth. We offer a rewarding working environment at the cutting edge of video technology. Our current vacancies are listed below. Also shown below are vacancies at our sister company Carallon - a product development company that provides R&D services to Brompton.
Brompton Vacancies
Carallon Vacancies
Job Reference CAR/SD/DEC24
Salary Competitive, depending on experience
Working Hours Full-time (37.5 hours/week)
Contract Type Permanent
Location Carallon Offices, 272 Gunnersbury Avenue, Chiswick, London. We operate on a hybrid working basis (3+ days in the office per week).
Please note that we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this post. You must have the right to live and work in the UK before applying for this role
About Us
Carallon is a product research and development company creating industry-leading award-winning products. Based in London, we specialise in industrial hardware and software design for the entertainment industry encompassing lighting control, LED video processing and motion control. Many of our hardware products have their own integrated user interfaces, while others have accompanying configuration software that runs on desktop or mobile, and we also develop standalone software products.
Projects our team designs and manufactures for include:
- The Pharos Architectural Control range of lighting control products used in theme parks and architectural installations worldwide
- The Martin Professional P3 LED Video Wall processors
- The industry-leading Brompton Technology control and processing solution for video walls used in concerts, award shows and television.
- We divide our time between contracting work and developing our own products in-house for distribution to a huge international client base.
Since 2020, Carallon has been owned by an Employee Ownership Trust. We are also certified as a B-Corp, meeting rigorous environmental and social standards.
Benefits
As an employee-owned company, staff can enjoy additional rights and benefits which are available to view on our website and include: employee council, health insurance, tax-free profit share scheme, flexible working hours, pension, in-house training and development, and holiday which increases with length of service.
Job Summary
The Senior Developer position is within our development team, which works concurrently on a variety of exciting, cutting-edge projects to develop robust software solutions for the entertainment industry. The Senior Developer would work closely with our existing software team to design, develop and integrate application-level solutions to technical challenges within our suite of products.
We offer a very friendly, flexible and supportive working environment. Our development team is close-knit and highly motivated with a keen interest in the products it creates. A successful candidate should be similarly minded working in the driven, focused environment required to bring original and ground-breaking products to market. It is a unique opportunity to develop engineering solutions that will be used to create spectacular events ranging from televised award-shows such as the Oscars, to the biggest music festivals and corporate events for the world's leading brands.
Key Responsibilities
- Designing and implementing software solutions for our suite of products
- Helping to produce technical product specifications given client/market requirements
- Taking responsibility for delivery of specific product features
- Maintaining and bug fixing existing code
- Performing code reviews and helping more junior software developers working as part of a team
Essential Qualifications
- Genuine interest in software design and technical challenges
- 2:1 or higher degree in a related subject from a Russell Group university or equivalent
- At least 3 years of experience working as software engineer using C++
- Excellent knowledge of C and C++
- Familiarity with development using the Qt toolkit
- Attention to detail
- Ability to discuss prior design work and explain the design processes involved and justify decisions made
- Ability to communicate ideas and concepts effectively in spoken and written English within a technical environment
- Evidence of the ability to work as part of a team, sharing skills, experience and interests with colleagues
Desirable Extras
- Experience working with video or lighting for live entertainment
- Excellent time management, including the ability to prioritise conflicting tasks appropriately
- Knowledge of Git and Gerrit version control and code review tools
- Experience with any of the following: Python, Jenkins build system, Linux
Job Reference CAR/AUTTEST/AUG2024
Salary Competitive, dependent on level of experience
Working Hours Full-time (37.5 hours per week)
Contract Type Permanent
Location Carallon Offices, Chiswick, London W4 (The
post holder may be required to work at other locations, at the discretion of
their line manager.)
About Us
Carallon is a product research and development company creating industry-leading award-winning products. Based in west London, we specialise in industrial hardware and software design for the entertainment industry; encompassing lighting control, LED video processing and motion control. Many of our hardware products have their own integrated user interfaces, while others have accompanying configuration software that runs on desktop or mobile, and we also develop standalone software products.
Projects our team designs and manufactures for include:
- The Pharos Architectural Control range of lighting control products used in theme parks and architectural installations worldwide
- The Martin Professional P3 LED Video Wall processors
- The industry-leading Brompton Technology control and processing solution for video walls used in concerts, award shows and television.
Since 2020, Carallon has been owned by an Employee Ownership Trust. We are also certified as a B-Corp, meeting rigorous environmental and social standards. We offer a very friendly, flexible and supportive working environment.
Benefits
As an employee-owned company, staff can enjoy additional rights and benefits and include: employee council, health insurance, tax-free profit share scheme, flexible working hours, pension, in-house training and development, and holiday which increases with length of service.
Job Summary
The Lead Test Automation Engineer will work across a variety of hardware and software products and technologies, as a member of a collaborative team delivering market-leading solutions. Our products span desktop and embedded applications, hardware and web API domains, and require a coordination of test approaches and tools across these to maximise efficiency and coverage.
The role will focus primarily on designing test systems for new products to ensure successful test automation architecture, with a secondary focus of updating and automating existing systems for our lighting and video control products.
Above all, the candidate should be:
- Expert in architecting automated test frameworks using a variety of technologies
- Fastidious in the testing of applications and APIs.
- Proactive when faced with problems to research and solve
- Enthusiastic about trying out new technologies or techniques.
- Excited by the delivery of high-quality software and hardware with a great user experience.
The ideal candidate will be methodical, with an eye for detail, but will also be able to think creatively to anticipate how customers might use a product and where problems might occur.
Candidates should be able to manage their own time as they will be involved in testing across multiple projects, working independently but in collaboration with project leads. Good communication skills are essential in liaising with external clients on clarifying field reports and working internally with developers to reproduce reported faults.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect test automation systems and frameworks across multiple projects
- Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
- Design, develop and execute automation test scripts
- Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements
- Collaborate with and guide software developers and junior QA engineers to ensure code and test quality
- Test new products and software versions prior to release, especially as a part of trialling new automation solutions and improvements
- Maintain test environments and ensure adequate test coverage
- Help guide departmental direction and policy through research and proposals for new testing tools and methodologies
Essential Qualifications
- 5+ years' experience working in a comparable role with test automation software.
- 5+ years' experience writing automated tests with Python or similar software development
- Strong background in CI/CD
- Experience of using Git or similar for version control
- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
- Knowledge of BDD best practices and Gherkin syntax
- Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
- Hands-on experience with both manual and automated testing
- Experience using an issue tracking tool in an Agile workflow, e.g. Jira or YouTrack.
Desirable Extras
- Experience using Postman for API documentation and testing.
- Experience using Froglogic Squish for automated GUI testing.
- Experience with Unit Testing.
- Understanding of Ethernet and TLS.
- Technical knowledge of lighting or video products and experience of their use in a live event or installation environment.
- Familiarity with video standards and technologies
- Previous experience of project management or team leadership
Job Reference CAR/NPIPE/NOV24
Salary Competitive, depending on experience
Working Hours Full-time (37.5 hours per week)
Contract Type Permanent
Location Carallon Offices, Gunnersbury, London, W4
About Us
Carallon is a product development and manufacturing company creating industry-leading award-winning products. Based in west London, we specialise in industrial hardware and software design for the entertainment industry, encompassing lighting control and LED video processing. Projects our team designs and manufactures for include:
The Pharos Architectural Control range of lighting control products used in theme parks and architectural installations worldwide
The Martin Professional P3 LED Video Wall processors
The industry-leading Brompton Technology control and processing solution for video walls used in concerts, award shows and television.
Since 2020 Carallon has been governed by an Employee-Owned Trust, offering an employee council and various benefits including an annual profit-share scheme. We have recently been certified as a B-Corp, meeting high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.
Job Summary
We are looking for an NPI & Production Engineer to join the small but growing Production Engineering department within Carallon, where they will further develop and run robust manufacturing systems and procedures compliant with ISO 9001 certification. The successful candidate will have at least 4-5 years’ experience of working in an industrial production engineering environment.
The candidate will ensure effective New Product Introduction from engineering into volume manufacture, managing specifications, systems, and processes to deliver products to market on schedule with consistent high quality. They will consult on the manufacturability of new products and the readiness of associated test tools and processes.
They will also be responsible for the productivity and continuous improvement of existing products currently in production. Accurate management of all product and change records, BoMs, revision documentation, components and manufacturing instructions is a critical requirement of the role. The candidate will be required to manage and schedule specification changes to labels, packaging etc. through ECNs to meet changing compliance requirements, and to satisfy regular updates and requests from customers.
They will provide a first point of technical support contact to manufacturing, acting as a liaison to the engineering department to resolve production/field issues and integrate design changes due to defects or component lifetime issues. They will further assist the manufacturing department in the investigation of any defective or non-conforming component issues and lead efforts to find a resolution. They will be responsible for managing and prioritising Documented Issues registers and Software Features/Fixes requests in Manufacturing Tools liaising with R&D engineers and working with the Manufacturing Manager, Production Supervisor and Technical Leads to ensuring Work Instructions capture all changes.
Key Responsibilities
- Interface with design and project teams to produce plans and schedule activities that ensure new product introduction at optimum cost and quality. Give feedback on the feasibility of technical product specifications from clients
- Interact with design and project teams to ensure product is designed for manufacturability, including Lean flow and elimination of waste
- Communicate progress, risks and issues for escalation to manufacturing and procurement
- Be the first point of contact for manufacturing in the event of any process or technical problem
- Be responsible for standard process times, accuracy and reduction initiatives
- Take ownership of managing the re-engineering of existing products due to product refreshes or component availability issues
- Act as an expert in component family trees, bill of materials and the management of engineering change orders
- Liaise with designers, manufacturing and support to help structure engineering changes correctly
- Work with Purchasing to develop new suppliers for new or revised parts
- Oversee and review suitability of end user label and packaging designs for products, produced by a graphic designer
- Establish cost-benefit data to reduce inventory obsolescence and reworks
Essential Qualifications
- Degree in a related subject from a Russell Group university or equivalent
- At least 4-5 years’ industry experience in product engineering
- Experience of Lean manufacturing, process design and stabilisation
- Experience in continuous improvement in a production environment
- Ability to communicate ideas and concepts effectively in spoken and written English within a technical environment, including preparation of system and process documentation
- Ability to discuss prior work, explain the chosen processes involved and justify decisions made
- Excellent proactivity, attention to detail and methodical approach to tasks
Desirable Extras
- Experience in ISO 9001 documentation and audit compliance
- Experience of team leadership and/or line management
- Interest in or experience working with video or lighting products for live entertainment
Job Reference CAR/SHD/NOV24
Salary Competitive, depending on experience
Working Hours Full-time (37.5 hours)
Contract Type Permanent
Location Carallon Offices, 272 Gunnersbury Avenue, Chiswick, London. We operate on a hybrid working basis (3+ days in the office per week).
About Us
Carallon is a product research and development company creating industry-leading award-winning products. Based in London, we specialise in industrial hardware and software design for the entertainment industry; encompassing lighting control, LED video processing and motion control. The products we design are used to make feature films, large-scale concerts and spectacular events, and to control the lighting of theme parks and landmark architecture around the world.
Job Summary
The senior hardware developer position is within our development team, which works concurrently on a variety of exciting, cutting-edge projects. Our circuit designs incorporate some of the largest and most advanced high-pin-count BGA components available, supported by high bandwidth DDR memory, multi-gigabit serial interfaces and PCBs of up to 18 layers. We build products for professional use with an expectation of reliability and robustness. To accomplish this, we continuously invest in tools for every stage of the process, including design, simulation, test and manufacturing. We’re seeking a hands-on engineer with a willingness and enthusiasm to experiment and tackle problems, and we value initiative, imagination and technical creativity.
We offer a very friendly, flexible and supportive working environment. Our development team is close-knit and highly motivated with a keen interest in the products it creates. A successful candidate should be similarly minded to work in the driven, focused environment required to bring original and ground-breaking products to market.
At Carallon we place a strong value on long-term relationships with our employees and our clients. We are looking for candidates who are interested in developing their career in partnership with us, joining our employee-owned company where we all contribute to (and benefit from) our shared purpose.
Key Responsibilities
- Development of electronics products from concept through to schematic design, PCB layout through to manufacture
- Working with external manufacturers to build prototypes and design production processes, and guiding products through regulatory compliance
- Working closely with embedded firmware and FPGA developers in both design and debugging (note however the role does not itself involve FPGA design)
- Investigating reported issues from manufacturing or technical support to determine cause and advise on resolutions for both existing and future products
Essential Qualifications
- Able to demonstrate a genuine interest and passion in electronics specifically, and engineering in general
- 4-5 years industry experience of electronics engineering contributing to products which have shipped
- Significant schematic design using tools such as OrCAD
- Significant PCB layout of circuit boards of 6 layers or above ideally with BGA devices or other similar complexity
- Experience in designing for processors or FPGAs
- Practical skills in assembling, testing and modifying electronics components down to 0402 but also re-work large pin count devices such as MCUs
- Analytical skills, including the ability to understand and reason about complex information
- Ability to apply existing knowledge to unfamiliar problems, suggest possible design solutions, and critique relative merits of different designs
- Evidence of the ability to lead a project, sharing skills, experience and interests with colleagues
- Strong communication skills in both verbal and written English
- Electronics Engineering undergraduate degree, 2:1 or above, or relevant professional experience
- Line management experience or previous experience mentoring / supporting colleagues
- Previous exposure to EMC measurement, design mitigation and debugging techniques
- Experience taking multiple products from concept through to PCB through to manufacturing in volume including skills such as design for manufacture and design for test
- Past experience in resolving issues post manufacture.
Desirable Extras
Experience of any of the following:
- High-speed digital design and measurement techniques
- Signal integrity simulation
- DDR Memory system design
- FPGA based systems
- EMC compliance techniques
- High layer-count PCB design (>8 layers)
- XJTAG boundary scan test system
- OrCAD Cadence or Zuken Cadstar PCB design software
- Client management and client-facing roles Interest in audio, video or lighting for live entertainment
- Excellent time management, including the ability to prioritise conflicting tasks appropriately