Role: Principal or Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Location: Chester
Salary: approx. £60,000
** This role is exclusive to Cortech so please apply via this advert**
** You must have power protection relays experience **
Role Overview
A senior technical leadership role responsible for embedded software architecture, project delivery, and guiding a multidisciplinary engineering team. The position requires deep embedded systems expertise, strong project ownership, and the ability to balance high‑level system design with hands‑on implementation.
Core Responsibilities
• Define and own embedded software architecture across multiple product lines.
• Lead project scoping, planning, resource allocation, and delivery.
• Produce clear technical documentation, architectural designs, and test strategies.
• Oversee code quality, conduct code reviews, and ensure robust CI/CT/CD practices.
• Mentor engineers, support cross‑functional collaboration, and communicate risks and mitigations.
• Ensure releases are fully tested, secure, and production‑ready.
• Contribute to innovative design decisions and continuous improvement of engineering processes.
Essential Technical Skills
• Advanced C/C++ for embedded systems.
• Strong experience with real‑time operating systems (FreeRTOS or similar).
• Deep understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and real‑time performance optimisation.
• Experience with embedded systems for data acquisition, control, communications, and bare‑metal development.
• Strong knowledge of Ethernet networking, including UDP/TCP/IP, TLS, unicast/multicast/broadcast.
• Peripheral interfacing: SPI, I2C, memory devices.
• Experience working with IP stacks and open‑source libraries.
• Proven delivery of commercial embedded products on MCU platforms such as ARM Cortex, PIC24/32, ESP32, STM32, MSP.
• Ability to break down complex requirements into deliverable work packages.
• Ability to read and interpret schematics, datasheets, and hardware documentation.
• Experience with power protection relays or protection‑related embedded systems (added as requested).
Desirable Skills
• Knowledge of industrial or utility communication protocols (e.g., DNP3, IEC 61850, IEC 60870‑5‑101/103/104, Modbus, BACnet).
• Experience with IoT/IIoT, cloud/enterprise platform integration, or industrial automation.
• Linux or BalenaOS experience; containers; scripting languages; Python; C#.
• Familiarity with VLANs, LLDP, SSH, SNMP, LDAP/RADIUS.
• Wireshark proficiency.
• Experience setting up or managing CI/CT/CD pipelines.
• Web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS), database interfacing (e.g., MySQL), or desktop application development.
How to apply?
Please email a CV to danni@cortechtalentsolutions.co.uk