Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Verso Recruitment Group; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Verso Recruitment Group is seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer for an established embedded electronics business in the North West. The role focuses on embedded C/C++, CAN bus, 32-bit microcontrollers, and testing real vehicles to prove your code in.

Based near Liverpool, with three days on site in the lab and vehicles, this workshop-anchored role values hands-on hardware work over remote tasks. Candidates should have strong experience delivering embedded firmware, vehicle bus expertise,

Qualifications

• Commercial embedded firmware development in C/C++ on 32-bit microcontrollers with a track record of delivering on challenging products.
• Solid vehicle-bus background with CAN/LIN and tooling to troubleshoot it (CANalyzer, PCAN, BusMaster or equivalent).
• Experience with in-vehicle harnesses, wiring, and in-vehicle debugging.
• Strong real-time embedded fundamentals: RTOS, interrupts, low-level drivers, and SPI/I2C/UART.
• Confident reading schematics and collaborating with hardware engineers.

Skills

Embedded C/C++

CAN bus

32-bit MCUs

RTOS

SPI/I2C/UART

Schematic reading

Tools

CANalyzer

PCAN

BusMaster

Job description

Overview

Senior Embedded Software Engineer wanted for an established embedded electronics business in the North West. The role focuses on embedded C/C++, CAN bus, 32-bit microcontrollers, and real vehicles to prove your code in. Commutable from Liverpool, Chester, Warrington and across Cheshire and Merseyside.

They build intelligent systems that go into specialist vehicles. Real kit, in real vehicles, doing a real job. And that's the tone of the role: bench, lab and vehicle work, not always at a desk and a backlog.

The engineer they're after

• Substantial years of commercial embedded firmware development in C / C++ on 32-bit microcontrollers with a history of leading delivery on tricky products.
• Solid vehicle-bus background. CAN bus, LIN or similar is essential, and the deeper the better: bus design, message architecture, diagnostics, and the tooling to troubleshoot it (CANalyzer, PCAN, BusMaster or equivalent).
• Actually happy in a vehicle. Harnesses, wiring, in-vehicle debugging, commissioning.
• Strong real-time embedded fundamentals: RTOS, interrupts, low-level drivers, and the usual protocols (SPI, I2C, UART).
• Confident reading schematics and working shoulder to shoulder with hardware engineers.

Additional experience of interest

• CAN-FD, J1939, UDS or ISO 26262 functional safety.
• Vehicle body control systems. Bootloader and OTA firmware development.

The shape of it

Based in the North West, commutable from Liverpool, Chester and Cheshire. Hybrid in principle, but the lab, the bench and the vehicles are on site, so plan on three days a week minimum in the building. Workshop-anchored, not remote-first.

If that sounds like your kind of work, or you know the person who should see it, get in touch or apply today.