Senior Embedded Electronics Engineer - Lead Firmware & HW

Energy Jobline CVL; Stockport; On-site; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

Energy Jobline CVL in Stockport is seeking a Senior Embedded Electronics Engineer to join its R&D team and drive the development of advanced embedded systems.

You will lead software architecture for embedded products, develop real‑time firmware in C/C++, and collaborate with hardware and software teams to deliver robust, secure designs. This role demands hands-on expertise and leadership in a fast-paced tech environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in electronics or embedded systems.
• Strong C/C++ with embedded toolchains.
• Experience with ARM, STM32 microcontrollers.
• Knowledge of RTOS and bootloaders.
• Soldering and hardware integration experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead embedded software architecture and system-level design for new and existing products.
• Develop robust real-time firmware in C/C++, within strict timing, performance and memory constraints.
• Design, develop and maintain peripheral drivers and interfaces (SPI, I2C, UART, USB, ADC/DAC, PWM, DMA, Ethernet).
• Configure, develop and optimise RTOS components (task scheduling, memory management, memory pools, ISRs).
• Undertake hardware bring-up and system-level hardware debugging.
• Contribute to schematic design, PCB reviews and hardware integration.
• Ensure embedded designs meet security, reliability and EMC/EMI requirements.
• Lead technical design reviews and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

C/C++ firmware

RTOS expertise

Hardware debugging

System-level design

Mentoring engineers

Education

Electronics Engineering degree

Tools

Keil

IAR

GCC

VS Code

Eclipse

STM32CubeMX

Altium

PSPICE

JTAG

Git

Azure DevOps

Jira

CI/CD

Job description

Energy Jobline CVL in Stockport is seeking a Senior Embedded Electronics Engineer to join its R&D team and drive the development of advanced embedded systems.

You will lead software architecture for embedded products, develop real‑time firmware in C/C++, and collaborate with hardware and software teams to deliver robust, secure designs. This role demands hands-on expertise and leadership in a fast-paced tech environment.