Embedded Firmware Engineer - Cambridge, High-Impact

Cortech Talent Solutions Ltd; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary Bonus Scheme

Enhanced parental leave

Generous discounts on products

Socials and team lunches

AND a genuine opportunity to be a very

Job summary

Cortech Talent Solutions Ltd in Cambridge is seeking an Experienced Firmware Design Engineer to design, develop and deliver production-ready firmware for products, ensuring compliance with functional, regulatory, quality and manufacturing requirements.

The ideal candidate will have 3–5 years of industrial firmware experience, strong C and RTOS skills, and a passion for robust, well-documented code. This hands-on role offers ownership from concept to production in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electronics Engineering.
• 3–5 years in firmware design in industrial setting.
• Familiarity with CE directives & EN62304.
• Experience with bare metal and RTOS firmware in C.

Responsibilities

• Own embedded firmware development from concept to production.
• Hands-on code development and firmware testing.
• Generate detailed software requirements from high-level features.
• Troubleshoot faults at code and system level; root cause analysis.
• Continuously improve design for performance, cost, obsolescence.
• Create and maintain design documentation including SDD and V&V docs.
• Support Manufacturing, Quality, Repairs and Customer Services.
• Evaluate new technologies and keep up with regulatory trends.
• Collaborate with hardware engineers to deliver complete electronics solutions.
• Write clean, non-blocking code and interpret datasheets and schematics.

Skills

Embedded software

Debugging

Documentation

Team collaboration

Non-blocking code

Education

Bachelor's in Electronics Engineering

Tools

C programming

RTOS

Microcontrollers

SPI/I2C/UART

Schematic reading

Job description

Cortech Talent Solutions Ltd in Cambridge is seeking an Experienced Firmware Design Engineer to design, develop and deliver production-ready firmware for products, ensuring compliance with functional, regulatory, quality and manufacturing requirements.

The ideal candidate will have 3–5 years of industrial firmware experience, strong C and RTOS skills, and a passion for robust, well-documented code. This hands-on role offers ownership from concept to production in a dynamic environment.