Salary: £40,000 - 70,000 per year Requirements:
* Degree in Electronics Engineering or a related discipline
* 7+ years of commercial embedded engineering experience
* Expert-level C and C++ development skills
* Strong RTOS experience
* Embedded architecture and technical leadership experience
* Hardware and firmware integration expertise
* System-level debugging skills
* Knowledge of embedded security principles
* Experience working with modern development workflows and CI/CD practices
Responsibilities:
* Lead embedded architecture decisions for new and existing products
* Drive system-level design and technical direction
* Conduct design reviews and technical risk assessments
* Mentor and support junior engineers
* Influence engineering best practices and development standards
* Develop real-time embedded firmware using C and C++
* Design and implement low-level device drivers
* Configure and optimise RTOS environments
* Develop bootloaders and embedded platform infrastructure
* Deliver secure, maintainable and scalable embedded software
* Carry out board bring-up and hardware debugging
* Perform hardware validation, testing and troubleshooting
* Support PCB design and schematic development activities
* Work on power management and low-power optimisation
* Contribute to EMI/EMC and product reliability considerations
Technologies:
* CI/CD
* Embedded
* Firmware
* Hardware
* Support
* Security
* ARM
* Azure
* C++
* Cloud
* DevOps
* Ethernet
* FreeRTOS
* Git
* GitHub
* JIRA
* TCP/IP
More:
We are a growing R&D team developing next-generation products within the access control, security and connected technology sector. This senior-level role offers significant technical influence across embedded software, electronics design and product architecture throughout the full product lifecycle, from concept and architecture through development, validation and production release. We offer hybrid working, a competitive salary package, a bonus scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, company pension, ongoing training and professional development, high technical autonomy, a collaborative engineering culture, and the opportunity to influence product direction and engineering strategy.
last updated 24 week of 2026