Senior Embedded Engineer

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