66 jobs
ECM Selection Cambridge £70,000 – £85,000 pa
Work within a small firmware team on multithreaded applied electronics for precision scientific instrumentation and robotic systems. You'll develop C/C++ firmware on ARM Cortex-M driving motors, real-time sensors and automated systems, integrating third-party modules and interfacing with C#.NET PC-side code. The role is based onsite with some flexibility around core hours.
NXP Semiconductors Gratkorn, Austria
Technical member of NXP's Product Security Incident Response Team, triaging reported vulnerabilities across hardware, firmware, software and embedded platforms. Reproduces issues with product experts, assesses exploitability and severity, and authors CVE records, advisories and researcher communications. Distinct for its deep semiconductor and low-level focus, spanning secure boot, debug interfaces and side-channel analysis.
NXP Semiconductors Leuven, Belgium
Technical member of NXP's Product Security Incident Response Team, triaging reported vulnerabilities across hardware, firmware, software and embedded platforms. Reproduces issues with product experts, assesses exploitability and severity, and drafts CVE records, advisories and researcher communications. Also advises product teams on vulnerability management and recurring security patterns.
Raspberry Pi Cambridge
Join a small ASIC team owning the full silicon flow from specification through design, verification and implementation, including ATE test and qualification. You will take ownership of front-end tasks, integrate and configure IP, support FPGA platforms for software development and verification, and work closely with the software team on next-generation products.
Platform Recruitment London £90,000 – £100,000 pa
Builds embedded and host software for high-speed networking hardware in high-performance computing environments, spanning architecture definition, Linux PCIe driver development, and network control and monitoring tools. Works closely with hardware teams from early prototypes to production, and contributes to DevOps and CI/CD pipelines. Requires strong C, C++ and Python skills with ARM and soft-processor experience.
KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Elsecar £60,000 – £70,000 pa
Senior role in a small R&D team at an IoT product design house, working mostly on the embedded Linux side writing application and middleware code in modern C++. You'll refactor a mature, memory-constrained codebase into clean object-oriented C++ using UML-led design, covering the full lifecycle from requirements to integration and validation. The team is adopting TDD, automated testing and CI/CD, and you'll mentor engineers as the team grows.
Redline Group London £55 – £65 ph
Develops and maintains high-performance embedded software in C/C++ for Embedded Linux and RTOS platforms, including multi-threaded applications and hardware integration. Contributes to software architecture, debugging and system validation, with GUI work in JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js alongside specialist engineers on mission-critical systems.
Microchip Cambridge
Lead architect defining 32-bit microcontroller-based Bluetooth, UWB and Wi-Fi SoC solutions, covering core selection, memory subsystems, power management, security and test features. Owns peripheral architecture and drives feasibility and trade-off studies, working with marketing, design, verification, firmware and external customers from concept through tape-out. Also applies AI-driven and automation techniques to improve design methodology and first-silicon success.
Cloudflare London
Join the Workers Runtime team to build and improve the runtime that executes customer code at the edge, focusing on performance, reliability, and scale. You'll expand JavaScript and WebAssembly support, own production code, and debug issues in a large-scale distributed system within a fast-paced, iterative incubation team.
Cloudflare London £185,000 – £254,000 pa
Designs and builds core infrastructure for a serverless AI inference platform running across a global network of GPUs and accelerators, covering model scheduling, request routing, KV cache management and sub-second cold starts. Works with AI/ML engineers and hardware partners on distributed systems and HPC problems, with a strong Rust and networking focus.
Zenovo Bristol £60,000 – £70,000 pa
Designs and develops bare-metal embedded firmware in C across the full product lifecycle, working on a next-generation product from an early stage. Involves communication protocols such as SPI, RS485 and CAN, ARM Cortex-M/A architectures, plus testing, debugging and integration. Also contributes to code reviews, architecture decisions and mentoring within a collaborative engineering team.
Platform Recruitment St Ives £60,000 – £70,000 pa
Develops and optimises firmware and software for bare-metal processors and embedded Linux/RTOS platforms, with heavy use of high-performance C/C++. Also leads a cross-functional team of hardware and software engineers through the full development life cycle, defining requirements and driving next-generation control software concepts.
KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Cambridge £75,000 – £85,000 pa
Architect and develop production firmware on Zephyr RTOS, with bare-metal work alongside, bringing up prototype boards from first power using debuggers, scopes and logic analysers. You'll build board-to-board and digital interfaces (CAN, SPI, I²C, UART, RS422), networked services such as REST APIs and SNMP agents, TCP/UDP layers, secure comms and firmware updates, plus Yocto-based embedded Linux work. The role sits in a Cambridge software team working closely with hardware and systems engineers.
Expert Employment London £60,000 – £68,000 pa
Develops real-time, safety-critical embedded software in modern C++, owning the full lifecycle from requirements through verification and validation. Works with systems, hardware and test engineers on architecture and design reviews, and mentors junior engineers. GUI/UX or HCI experience and scripting skills are used alongside CI/CD and testing frameworks.
BramahHR Ltd Birmingham £70,000 – £90,000 pa
Hands-on role owning embedded software and firmware for high-power EV charging infrastructure, from requirements and architecture through integration, validation and in-service support. Work spans low-level microcontroller firmware and higher-level supervisory applications, with roughly 60% new development, 30% integration and testing, and 10% support. Involves modern C++, RTOS/bare-metal, CAN, Modbus, MQTT and secure OTA updates, plus technical leadership through reviews and mentoring.
