Senior Software Engineer

Applause IT Recruitment; Manchester; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonus

Engineering ownership

Job summary

Applause IT Recruitment seeks a Senior Embedded Electronics Engineer in Manchester to join the expanding R&D team. You will work across firmware and hardware, taking concepts through to production with real-time embedded firmware in C/C++ and MCU development on ARM Cortex-M, STM32, ESP32, and similar devices.

You will configure RTOS environments, develop peripheral drivers (SPI, I2C, UART, USB, CAN, Ethernet), perform board bring-up and debugging, and contribute to architecture decisions while

Qualifications

• Strong commercial Embedded C/C++ experience.
• Excellent MCU knowledge.
• RTOS and real-time embedded development experience.
• Hands-on electronics and hardware capability.
• Experience reading schematics and debugging at board level.
• Experience taking embedded products from concept through to production.

Responsibilities

• Develop real-time embedded firmware in C/C++.
• Work with ARM Cortex-M, STM32, ESP32, NXP MCUs.
• Configure and optimise RTOS/FreeRTOS environments.
• Develop peripheral drivers – SPI, I2C, UART, USB, CAN, Ethernet.
• Board bring-up, bootloader development and hardware debugging.
• Analogue & digital electronics, schematics and PCB development.
• Embedded security, reliability and system-level debugging.
• Leading architecture decisions and mentoring other engineers.

Skills

Embedded C/C++

RTOS

ARM Cortex-M

STM32

Electronics

Tools

Altium

Job description

Senior Embedded Electronics Engineer – Manchester

Competitive Salary + Bonus

Embedded C/C++ | RTOS | ARM | STM32 | Electronics

Are you an experienced Embedded Engineer who enjoys working across both firmware and hardware, rather than being limited to one side of product development?

We're working with an established technology business that's expanding its R&D team following continued growth and investment into a number of new product development projects.

They're looking for a Senior Embedded Electronics Engineer to take a key role across the full product lifecycle – from initial concept and architecture through to development, board bring-up, testing and production.

What you'll be working on:

• Developing real-time embedded firmware in C/C++
• Working with ARM Cortex-M, STM32, ESP32, NXP and similar MCUs
• Configuring and optimising RTOS / FreeRTOS environments
• Developing peripheral drivers – SPI, I2C, UART, USB, CAN, Ethernet
• Board bring-up, bootloader development and hardware debugging
• Analogue & digital electronics, schematics and PCB development
• Embedded security, reliability and system-level debugging
• Leading architecture decisions and mentoring other engineers

We're particularly interested in engineers with:

• Strong commercial Embedded C/C++ experience
• Excellent microcontroller / MCU knowledge
• RTOS and real-time embedded development experience
• Genuine hands-on electronics and hardware capability
• Experience reading schematics and debugging at board level
• A background taking embedded products from concept through to production

Experience with Altium, embedded cybersecurity, encryption, automated testing or CI/CD would be a strong advantage.

What's on offer?

• Competitive salary + bonus
• Opportunity to influence engineering and product direction
• Genuine technical ownership and autonomy

This isn't a purely firmware-focused position – it's particularly suited to an engineer who enjoys getting close to the electronics, hardware and complete embedded product.

Interested?

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