Senior Embedded Electronics Engineer
Manchester | Hybrid Working
Competitive Salary + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Embedded Electronics Engineer to join a growing R&D team developing next-generation products within the access control, security and connected technology sector. This is a senior-level position offering significant technical influence across embedded software, electronics design and product architecture.
The successful Senior Embedded Electronics Engineer will play a key role throughout the full product lifecycle, from concept and architecture through development, validation and production release, helping shape the future direction of innovative embedded products.
The Role
As a Senior Embedded Electronics Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across embedded development projects, taking ownership of architecture decisions while remaining hands-on with firmware and hardware development activities.
Working within a collaborative engineering environment, you will help drive technical excellence, mentor junior engineers and contribute to the delivery of secure, reliable and high-performance embedded systems.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership
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
Embedded Development
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
Hardware & Systems Integration
Board bring-up and hardware debugging
Hardware validation, testing and troubleshooting
Support PCB design and schematic development activities
Power management and low-power optimisation
Contribute to EMI/EMC and product reliability considerations
Skills & Experience
Essential
Degree in Electronics Engineering or a related discipline
7+ years' 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
Technical Environment
You may have experience with some of the following:
Embedded Platforms
ARM Cortex-M
STM32
ESP32
NXP Kinetis
FreeRTOS / RTOS environments
Tools & Technologies
Keil
IAR
GCC
STM32CubeMX
Altium
Git / GitHub
Azure DevOps
Jira
Communication Protocols
SPI
I2C
UART
USB
Ethernet
CAN Bus
BLE
WiFi
TCP/IP
What's on Offer?
Hybrid working
Competitive salary package
Bonus scheme
25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Company pension
Ongoing training and professional development
High level of technical autonomy
Collaborative engineering culture
Opportunity to influence product direction and engineering strategy
Why Apply?
This role offers the opportunity to work on real-world products used internationally across security, access control and connected technology environments. You'll have significant influence over technical decisions, exposure to both hardware and software development, and the chance to help shape the future of a growing engineering function.
If you're an experienced Senior Embedded Electronics Engineer looking for a role where you can combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership, we'd like to hear from you.
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