18 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.
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.
NXP Semiconductors Spain
Designs and implements cross-platform cryptographic algorithms, including post-quantum cryptography, and develops software countermeasures against side-channel and fault-injection attacks. Provides technical leadership across cryptographic domains, collaborating with security architects, firmware and evaluation teams, and supports product certification and security evaluations.
NXP Semiconductors Spain
Designs and implements cross-platform cryptographic algorithms, including post-quantum cryptography, plus software countermeasures against side-channel and fault-injection attacks. Works with security architects, evaluation, OS and firmware teams on embedded C/Assembly for ARM Cortex-M and RISC-V, supporting certification and security evaluations.
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.
Platform Recruitment Cambridge £75,000 – £90,000 pa
Lead a high-calibre embedded platform team, owning the software foundation for mission-critical KVM products. Split time between hands-on Embedded C development on Linux for resource-constrained hardware and complex SoCs, and setting architecture direction, coaching engineers and driving root-cause thinking for high-reliability systems.
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.
WR HVAC London £60,000 – £70,000 pa
Hands-on role combining embedded firmware development in C/C++ and Python with custom PCB design, from schematics and layout to prototyping and debugging. You'll build real-time control systems for thermoelectric modules, fans and sensors, using UART, SPI, I2C and Modbus, and take solid-state heat pump products from prototype to production alongside mechanical and thermal engineers.
KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Cheshire £70,000 – £85,000 pa
Lead the device-side firmware build for intelligent connected hardware used at the edge of the energy grid, owning low-level problems such as SPI bus behaviour, cross-processor timing, tight memory footprints and radio coexistence. Work across ESP32, RP2040 and STM32 class parts with FreeRTOS, embedded C/C++, MQTT with mutual TLS and Modbus, setting standards and mentoring a small, senior team.
Jonathan Lee Recruitment Newport £70,000 – £90,000 pa
Lead the autonomy system architecture and technical roadmap for an R&D business developing technology for agricultural vehicles. Line manage 4-6 engineers, coordinate 3-4 subsystem suppliers, and lead C++ and ROS2 delivery across perception, localisation, planning and motion control, with hands-on technical support and verification and validation planning.
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler Merseyside £480 – £500 pd
Owns the target architecture and design authority for an enterprise Factory Edge hosting service, defining reference architectures, reusable site patterns and guardrails across VMs, Kubernetes, MES/UNS and AI/GPU workloads. Acts as design authority across infrastructure, cloud, networking, security and OT, assessing platforms such as Azure Local, Dell NativeEdge and Nutanix.
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler Merseyside £480 – £500 pd
Owns the network architecture and connectivity patterns that integrate edge computing platforms into factory IT and OT environments. Designs LAN/WAN, SD-WAN, segmentation, firewalls and resilience standards, producing reusable blueprints, HLDs and LLDs for repeatable deployment across multiple manufacturing sites.
Proactive Appointments Didcot £80,000 – £86,500 pa
Designs, implements and continuously improves cybersecurity controls across manufacturing OT environments, covering industrial control systems, factory automation and related technologies. Combines OT-security engineering, architecture and technical leadership with cross-functional partnership to reduce cyber risk while protecting personnel, production continuity and product quality.
Avanti Recruitment ELY £60,000 – £70,000 pa
Hands-on senior role developing embedded software on SoC-FPGA platforms, bridging ARM processors, FPGA programmable logic and complex measurement systems. Day-to-day work covers Embedded Linux in C/C++, AXI, DMA, interrupts, memory-mapped I/O, drivers, high-speed data acquisition and porting MATLAB/Python algorithms into embedded C/C++. Technical ownership of low-level hardware/software integration for advanced sensing and measurement products.
Microchip Whiteley
Join the Human Machine Interface Division to shape next-generation maXTouch capacitive touch controllers for automotive, industrial and consumer products. You will define sensing architectures, write and verify RTL in Verilog/SystemVerilog, develop embedded C/C++ software, and drive silicon bring-up and validation across analog, digital and firmware domains.
