Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Berkshire
Permanent - Full Time
Help Shape the Future of Advanced Navigation & Sensor-Fusion Technology
We design and manufacture advanced RF navigation and communication systems used across defence, law enforcement, and civil applications worldwide.
We are globally recognised for delivering industry-leading solutions that offer exceptional performance across size, weight, power, and cost. As our UK operation continues to grow rapidly, we are investing heavily in new engineering capability, product development, and manufacturing expansion.
We are now seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to play a key role within our growing UK engineering function.
Most embedded software roles ask you to join a team. This one gives you the opportunity to help build one.
This is an opportunity to work on genuinely advanced positioning, navigation, and sensor-fusion systems while helping shape our future embedded software capability.
You will work closely with hardware, RF, FPGA, systems, and manufacturing teams in a highly collaborative onsite environment where ideas move quickly from concept to prototype to production.
The Opportunity
We have an expanding and rapidly growing R&D team with multiple active projects. We are looking for a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to develop and optimise Kalman filter-based navigation and sensor-fusion algorithms on microcontrollers, primarily ARM Cortex platforms and ideally STM32.
You will work close to the hardware, taking ownership of critical algorithm-to-firmware implementation and delivering robust, production-grade embedded software for real-world systems operating in demanding environments.
This is a fully onsite UK role with regular interaction with international engineering teams and direct exposure to fast-moving development and production activities.
Why Us?
Work on advanced real-world navigation and positioning technology
Be part of a rapidly expanding UK engineering operation
Help shape engineering standards, technical direction, and future team growth
Collaborate closely with RF, FPGA, hardware, and manufacturing specialists
Fast iteration cycles through direct access to onsite SMT production
Solve highly complex embedded and real-time engineering challenges
Gain exposure to cutting-edge RF, GNSS, and sensor-fusion technologies
Opportunity to make a visible impact within a growing international business
What Youll Be Doing
Implementing, tuning, and maintaining Kalman Filter pipelines including EKF, UKF, and classical KF
Developing production-grade embedded C/C++ firmware on ARM Cortex-M platforms
Integrating and processing data from IMUs, GNSS, magnetometers, barometers, and other navigation sensors
Designing deterministic real-time acquisition and filtering pipelines
Optimising computational performance and memory footprint using fixed and floating-point approaches
Developing validation workflows including simulation replay, logging, repeatable test scenarios, and HIL environments
Collaborating with hardware and systems engineers on calibration, timing, sensor behaviour, and interface protocols
Supporting rapid prototyping and smooth transition into production manufacturing
Producing high-quality technical documentation, test evidence, and engineering artefacts
To be open, honest & up-front form the start, this role, when not at client site, travelling or at exhibitions/conferences, will be fully based on-site, 5 days a week, without the remit for WFH or hybrid working.
What Were Looking For
Essential Experience
Strong embedded software development experience using C/C++
Commercial experience developing firmware on microcontrollers
Proven experience implementing Kalman filtering, estimation, or sensor-fusion systems in real-world environments
Strong understanding of:
Real-time embedded systems and deterministic timing
Noise modelling, sensor calibration, drift, and bias correction
Linear algebra concepts used in filtering and estimation
Experience with ARM Cortex-M platforms, ideally STM32
Experience debugging embedded systems using JTAG/SWD, tracing, logic analysers, gdb, or similar tools
Experience working with embedded communication protocols including SPI, I2C, UART, and CAN
Desirable Experience
GNSS and inertial navigation systems
IMU + GNSS fusion
Attitude estimation, quaternions, DCM
Dead reckoning, ZUPT, or inertial estimation techniques
CMSIS / CMSIS-DSP
FreeRTOS
STM32CubeIDE / CubeMX
HIL testing, Monte Carlo simulation, or recorded dataset replay
Experience within navigation, aerospace, defence, robotics, autonomy, or advanced sensing environments
If you are looking for a role where you can work on genuinely advanced embedded systems, influence engineering direction, and make a lasting impact within a growing organisation, we would love to hear from you.
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