74 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.
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.
NXP Semiconductors Gratkorn, Austria
Designs and implements cross-platform cryptographic algorithms, including post-quantum cryptography, for embedded ARM Cortex-M and RISC-V platforms. Develops software countermeasures against side-channel analysis and fault injection attacks, collaborating with security architects, firmware teams and evaluation teams to meet certification requirements up to Common Criteria EAL 6+.
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.
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.
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.
Hexwired Recruitment Limited Sutton £65,000 – £80,000 pa
You will write Embedded C for a range of processors, focusing primarily on real-time systems within a dedicated team on a pioneering R&D project for a new product range. The role offers strong scope for career progression, and experience or interest in moving into a leadership position is highly desirable.
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 £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.
Spectrum IT Recruitment Bampton £40,000 – £60,000 pa
Design and develop safety-critical embedded software for next-generation autonomous systems, working within a specialist team and contributing to software architecture. The role sits in an evolving robotics and autonomous space, requiring strong C/C++ embedded skills and familiarity with real-time systems and regulated environments.
Redline Group Pontefract £50 – £60 ph
Contract role modifying an existing embedded platform for a time-critical customer programme, while supporting ongoing product development. You'll work in a small collaborative team using Embedded C, RTOS (Zephyr or FreeRTOS) and STM32 microcontrollers, with train operating systems/TDRP experience desirable. Initial 2-month contract with hybrid working and potential extension.
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.
