Embedded Firmware Engineer — Power‑Efficient IoT & Testing

Front Door Defense; Charnwood; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

E-Space in Loughborough, UK is seeking an Embedded Software Engineer to design, develop, and test firmware for battery-powered IoT devices, with a strong emphasis on testing automation and power efficiency.

You will work on BSPs, kernel-level development, RTOS/Linux components, and secure IoT protocols, collaborating with hardware teams and contributing to CI pipelines and HIL testing.

Qualifications

• Experience designing low-level embedded software and BSPs.
• Power-efficient, real-time embedded systems expertise.
• Strong testing automation experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop low-level software for embedded systems including BSP and drivers.
• Implement power-saving algorithms for battery devices.
• Customize RTOS or Linux kernel components.
• Develop secure MQTT/BLE IoT protocols.
• Create automated unit/integration/regression tests.
• Collaborate with hardware teams for software-hardware integration.
• Prepare testing procedures, logs, and reports.

Skills

Embedded development

RTOS kernel

IoT protocols

Testing automation

CI/CD

Power optimization

Debugging tools

Git

Tools

GDB

JTAG

CI/CD tools

Job description

E-Space in Loughborough, UK is seeking an Embedded Software Engineer to design, develop, and test firmware for battery-powered IoT devices, with a strong emphasis on testing automation and power efficiency.

You will work on BSPs, kernel-level development, RTOS/Linux components, and secure IoT protocols, collaborating with hardware teams and contributing to CI pipelines and HIL testing.