Senior Embedded Engineer

About this job

Senior Embedded Electronics Engineer
Manchester | Hybrid Working
Competitive Salary + Bonus + Excellent Benefits

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Embedded Electronics Engineer to join a growing R&D team developing next-generation products within the access control, security and connected technology sector. This is a senior-level position offering significant technical influence across embedded software, electronics design and product architecture.

The successful Senior Embedded Electronics Engineer will play a key role throughout the full product lifecycle, from concept and architecture through development, validation and production release, helping shape the future direction of innovative embedded products.

The Role

As a Senior Embedded Electronics Engineer, you will provide technical leadership across embedded development projects, taking ownership of architecture decisions while remaining hands-on with firmware and hardware development activities.

Working within a collaborative engineering environment, you will help drive technical excellence, mentor junior engineers and contribute to the delivery of secure, reliable and high-performance embedded systems.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Lead embedded architecture decisions for new and existing products

• Drive system-level design and technical direction

• Conduct design reviews and technical risk assessments

• Mentor and support junior engineers

• Influence engineering best practices and development standards

Embedded Development

• Develop real-time embedded firmware using C and C++

• Design and implement low-level device drivers

• Configure and optimise RTOS environments

• Develop bootloaders and embedded platform infrastructure

• Deliver secure, maintainable and scalable embedded software

Hardware & Systems Integration

• Board bring-up and hardware debugging

• Hardware validation, testing and troubleshooting

• Support PCB design and schematic development activities

• Power management and low-power optimisation

• Contribute to EMI/EMC and product reliability considerations

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Degree in Electronics Engineering or a related discipline

• 7+ years' commercial embedded engineering experience

• Expert-level C and C++ development skills

• Strong RTOS experience

• Embedded architecture and technical leadership experience

• Hardware and firmware integration expertise

• System-level debugging skills

• Knowledge of embedded security principles

• Experience working with modern development workflows and CI/CD practices

Technical Environment

You may have experience with some of the following:

Embedded Platforms

• ARM Cortex-M

• STM32

• ESP32

• NXP Kinetis

• FreeRTOS / RTOS environments

Tools & Technologies

• Keil

• IAR

• GCC

• STM32CubeMX

• Altium

• Git / GitHub

• Azure DevOps

• Jira

Communication Protocols

• SPI

• I2C

• UART

• USB

• Ethernet

• CAN Bus

• BLE

• WiFi

• TCP/IP

What's on Offer?

• Hybrid working

• Competitive salary package

• Bonus scheme

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

• Company pension

• Ongoing training and professional development

• High level of technical autonomy

• Collaborative engineering culture

• Opportunity to influence product direction and engineering strategy

Why Apply?

This role offers the opportunity to work on real-world products used internationally across security, access control and connected technology environments. You'll have significant influence over technical decisions, exposure to both hardware and software development, and the chance to help shape the future of a growing engineering function.

If you're an experienced Senior Embedded Electronics Engineer looking for a role where you can combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership, we'd like to hear from you.

Click Apply Now to be considered for this Senior Embedded Electronics Engineer opportunity.