Control System Engineer

Innovate; England; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Talent Consultant to support business growth with strategic hires focused on embedded controls. The role involves extensive design and validation of systems, requiring strong coding skills in C and C++, and experience with DSPs. Join a dynamic team dedicated to advancing power electronics systems in a hybrid working environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in developing embedded code and firmware.
• Hands-on familiarity with digital signal processors.
• Experience with requirement management platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design control systems and build functional prototypes.
• Liaise with stakeholders to clarify requirements.
• Conduct system-level analysis and validation exercises.

Skills

Embedded code development

Familiarity with DSPs

C and C++ programming

Understanding system architectures

Testing system-level functions

Tools

Jama

DOORS

Polarion

Job description

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Talent Consultant @ Innovate || Supporting Business Growth With Strategic Hires

Stafford, Hybrid

This position centres on crafting control methodologies, undertaking system-level design, coding DSPs or microcontrollers, and carrying out prototyping and embedded system validation.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary embedded controls expert within a compact multi-disciplinary team working on advanced power electronics systems
• Contribute to overall system architecture in collaboration with electronics and systems engineers
• Design control systems using DSP or microcontroller platforms tailored to project needs
• Build functional prototypes and carry out hands-on testing and evaluation
• Define and align interface requirements to ensure system compatibility across components
• Assist in verification and compliance testing to meet engineering and industry standards
• Gather, review, and critically assess customer inputs and technical expectations
• Liaise with stakeholders internally and externally to clarify requirements and resolve design-related issues
• Promote the reuse of existing design elements and apply standardised approaches to improve efficiency
• Undertake performance and functional analysis at the system level
• Engage in validation exercises to confirm system behaviour against specification

What are we looking for?

• Demonstrated experience developing embedded code and firmware, preferably within regulated engineering sectors
• Hands-on familiarity with digital signal processors (DSPs)
• Skilled in writing embedded code using C and C++ for microcontroller-based systems
• Solid understanding of how embedded software interacts within broader system architectures
• Background in testing system-level functions
• Familiarity with electrical power systems
• Knowledge and experience with requirements management platforms: Jama, DOORS, Polarion

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  Defense and Space Manufacturing

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