Senior Embedded R&D Engineer – IoT & Connected Home

Ei Electronics; Shannon; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Ei Electronics, based in Shannon, Ireland, seeks a Senior R&D Engineer to lead hardware and firmware development for embedded products. You will drive early-stage design, testing, and qualification, ensuring high quality and compliant deliverables in a cross-functional team.

The role emphasizes deep technical engagement across analogue/digital circuits, embedded firmware, and PCB development, with collaboration across engineering and product teams. Onsite, permanent, full-time.

Qualifications

• Must have embedded hardware and firmware development experience.
• Strong knowledge of analogue and digital electronics and measurement instrumentation.
• Experience with hardware/software interfacing (e.g., serial, I2C, SPI, CAN).

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, testing and troubleshooting of analogue and digital electronic circuits.
• Own schematic capture and PCB design.
• Develop embedded firmware for microcontroller-based systems.
• Identify and explore early-stage and pre-product technologies for readiness.
• Document and present research outcomes to internal teams.
• Ensure compliance with quality, safety and documentation standards.
• Contribute to test framework and tooling improvements.
• Collaborate across disciplines to improve test coverage and product quality.

Skills

Embedded systems

Firmware development

Circuit design

Schematic capture

PCB layout

C programming

Python

Testing

Documentation

Education

Degree in Electronic Engineering

Tools

Altium

Git

Bitbucket

SourceTree

Job description

Ei Electronics, based in Shannon, Ireland, seeks a Senior R&D Engineer to lead hardware and firmware development for embedded products. You will drive early-stage design, testing, and qualification, ensuring high quality and compliant deliverables in a cross-functional team.

The role emphasizes deep technical engagement across analogue/digital circuits, embedded firmware, and PCB development, with collaboration across engineering and product teams. Onsite, permanent, full-time.