96 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 delivering next-generation silicon, working from RTL to GDS across timing constraints, UPF, synthesis, place & route, CTS, STA, formal verification, ECO methodology and physical verification. You will partner closely with the design team to close ambitious performance, power and area goals, and mentor colleagues while working on site in Cambridge.
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.
Empresaria Group plc Bristol £50,000 – £80,000 pa
Develops onboard software for uncrewed aerial systems, spanning autopilots, autonomy, payloads and mission-critical subsystems. Works on existing aircraft and clean-sheet designs, taking code from concept and SIL/HIL simulation through to real-world flight testing. Involves C++ and/or Rust in embedded and real-time environments, with influence over software architecture.
Spectrum IT Recruitment Southampton £100,000 – £115,000 pa
Lead and mentor a team of embedded software engineers while staying hands-on with technical direction, architecture and delivery. You'll define engineering standards, oversee wireless communication software on heterogeneous platforms, and act as the customer-facing technical point of contact across the full development lifecycle.
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.
KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Normanton £50,000 – £60,000 pa
Design, develop and maintain embedded software for ARM-based connected products, working close to hardware with real-time operating systems such as Zephyr or FreeRTOS. You will implement wireless protocols including Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Zigbee, write maintainable C code with MISRA in mind, and build Linux test simulations, collaborating with hardware engineers and solution consultants on requirements and system architecture.
Technical Futures Ltd Birmingham £45,000 – £60,000 pa
Hands-on embedded role building and maintaining Yocto-based Linux distributions and writing firmware for microcontrollers, bare metal or FreeRTOS. Work spans the stack from bootloader and kernel drivers down to real-time firmware, plus supporting products in the field. Projects cover medical, smart home, energy, defence, communications and scientific sectors, with close client contact.
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.
