Embedded Software Engineer

Salary: £58,000 - 98,000 per year

Requirements:

• Complete Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks before starting and be eligible for and willing to undergo UK Security Check (SC) clearance; SC clearance normally requires at least five years residency in the UK.
• Have the right to work in the UK.
• Be fluent in C, C++ and Python, with experience of SQL-based databases.
• Be familiar with Git version control.
• Bring an analytical mindset and the ability to break down complex problems and develop elegant, efficient code.
• Write clean, well-commented code that other developers can follow and build on.
• Take a collaborative approach and be able to bridge hardware, physics and software disciplines.
• Desirable: experience with low-power wireless SoCs.
• Desirable: embedded firmware experience in C or C++ for radio stacks.
• Desirable: experience with RF simulation tools and PCB design tools.
• Desirable: experience in defence, security or space projects.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement robust, real-time embedded software in C and C++ for microelectronics, sensors and other subsystems.
• Write low-level drivers and hardware abstraction layers (HALs) for a range of microcontrollers and FPGAs.
• Implement and optimise communication protocols.
• Design and deploy data collection systems for remote environments, as well as load-balanced staging and production IoT data services.
• Maintain and correct records in SQL-based databases.
• Run unit, integration and hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) testing, along with structured test protocols, to make live deployments fault tolerant, reliable and long-lasting.
• Contribute across the full software development lifecycle (SDLC), from clean-sheet design to efficient, working code.
• Align technical solutions with market research and customer requirements.

Technologies:

• Embedded
• Firmware
• Git
• Hardware
• IoT
• Python
• SQL
• Security
• C++

More:

We are hiring an Embedded Software Engineer to build the real-time software, drivers and data systems behind our sensing and communications technology. You will take ideas from clean-sheet design through to efficient, tested code running on our hardware in live deployments. We offer the opportunity to work on cutting-edge sensing and communications technology used by the MOD, ESA and NATO partners, in a modern office with R&D labs and the chance to influence products at an early stage in our growth. Remote working is not available.

last updated 43 week of 2026