Embedded Electronics Design Team Lead

Electus Recruitment; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Salary reviews

Paid overtime

Job summary

Electus Recruitment is seeking an Embedded Design Team Lead – Electronics Engineering in Stevenage with an on-site requirement. The role offers a salary between £50k and £65k plus bonus and benefits.

You will lead and mentor a technical team, oversee DSP/SoC projects, and drive embedded hardware/software integration across products. The ideal candidate has proven team leadership, FPGA and firmware experience, and a strong delivery mindset within safety-critical systems.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience managing multi-disciplinary hardware teams.
• Background in Digital Hardware or FPGA or Embedded Software design.
• Experience designing/architecting embedded digital systems.
• Experience integrating/testing embedded systems on hardware.
• Strong verbal and written communication; delivery-focused.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to the team – technical and people management.
• Ensure projects complete on time and to high standards.
• Manage a portfolio of advanced DSP systems, SoCs, safety-critical systems.
• Allocate and implement use of embedded devices from multiple vendors.

Skills

Team leadership

Communication

Project management

Embedded design

Tools

FPGA design

Firmware development

Embedded software

Job description

Embedded Design Team Lead – Electronics Engineering
Location: Stevenage – Around 3/4 Days a Week On-Site
Salary: £50k–£65k Plus Bonus and Benefits
This well-established defence company that produces military weapons systems will reward your hard work significantly with bonuses, annual salary reviews and paid overtime, among other benefits.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide support to the team – both technical and people management
• Ensure projects get completed on time and to high standards
• Manage a portfolio of advanced DSP systems (e.g. Image Processing, Software Defined Radios), complex SoC systems and safety/security critical systems
• Allocate and implement the use of the latest embedded devices from various vendors (e.g. Xilinx, Intel, Texas Instruments, Analogue devices etc).

Requirements:

• Demonstrable team leadership experience
• Background in Digital Hardware Design, FPGA Design (firmware), or Embedded Software Design.
• Embedded digital design and modelling skills (e.g. partitioning of functional elements between software and FPGA, and modelling/analysing key performance aspects of the resulting design)
• Experience integrating and testing embedded systems onto hardware platforms
• Excellent communication skills with an ability to inspire and drive teams to succeed
• Project management - planning, budgeting and delivery-oriented mindset

Are you ready to manage innovative products/projects across the lifecycle and support a close-knit team?

Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to British or Dual Citizens. Applicants who meet this criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, if not already security cleared to a minimum SC level.

This is a permanent position.