Technical Leader, Embedded Software and Electronics

Cambridgeconsultantslimited; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Choice of medical, dental, and vision plans

Flexible spending accounts

22 vacation days for full-time employees

Competitive base salary

Pay for performance

Profit-share bonus plan

401K with discretionary company match

Life insurance

Relocation assistance

13 weeks fully paid parental leave

Job summary

Cambridge Consultants Limited is seeking a Techno-Commercial Leader to drive innovation in the Energy and Industry team. In this role, you will act as a trusted technical advisor, shaping embedded systems that align with clients' commercial strategies.

As an expert in embedded software and electronics, you will guide architectural decisions, navigate uncertainties in innovation, and propose long-term partnership opportunities. A competitive salary in the range of $180k–$210k is offered, alongside comprehensive benefits including a bonus plan and excellent work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Possess a deep technical foundation in embedded software and electronics.
• A proven track record of leading complex technical programmes.
• Prioritize value delivery over technical perfection.
• Experience delivering tightly coupled embedded software and hardware systems.
• A resilient communicator who can translate technical constraints into commercial risks.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to clients, ensuring embedded architecture supports commercial goals.
• Identify long-term partnership opportunities and help design technical roadmaps.
• Guide architectural decisions and partner with clients to reframe requests based on technical reality.
• Translate complexity into digestible commercial risk for clients.
• Collaborate with business development to define new market offerings.

Skills

Deep Technical Expertise

Proven Technology Leadership

Commercial & Strategic Focus

Integration Expertise

Dynamic Communication

Job description

Overview

Cambridge Consultants (CC) is in the business of delivering the future, faster. We are a technology innovation partner that excels at solving the world’s most complex engineering challenges. As our North America business rapidly expands, we are seeking a Techno-Commercial Leader for our Energy and Industry team—someone who operates at the intersection of deep technology and commercial strategy.

This unit is at the forefront of Industry 4.0. We don’t just design circuits; we build complex, intelligent systems that create fundamental, defensible business value for our clients. We are looking for a leader who can act as a “second CTO” to our clients—bridging their boardroom ambitions to the reality of complex R&D in embedded software, electronics, and hardware systems to drive the commercialisation of world‑first technologies. If you are wired to challenge client assumptions, define what gets built and why, and turn embedded systems expertise into competitive advantage, this role is for you.

What You’ll Do and The Impact You’ll Make

We are searching for a T-shaped leader with a CTO mindset—someone whose deep roots in embedded software and electronics give them the credibility to set technical direction, and whose commercial instincts ensure that direction creates real business value. You will not be the primary subject‑matter expert writing firmware or laying out PCBs; instead, you will own the strategic question of what the system should do and why it matters to the client’s business—ensuring our teams build the right thing, effectively and efficiently.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the “What” and the “Why”: Act as a trusted technical advisor to our clients, validating that the embedded architecture directly supports their commercial goals. You have the credibility and confidence to advise a client to pivot their technical strategy when new realities emerge—before sunk cost sets in.
• Shape the Commercial Relationship: Look beyond fixed‑scope delivery to identify long‑term, shared‑risk partnership opportunities. You help design technical roadmaps that elevate the client’s market position—proposing novel embedded solutions that create defensible competitive advantage, and helping structure the commercial terms that reflect the value being created.
• Bridge Technical Disciplines: Draw on your background in embedded software and electronics to guide architectural decisions and interrogate client assumptions. You partner with clients to reframe their requests based on technical reality—protecting their investment by ensuring the system architecture is sound before significant capital is committed.
• Navigate Ambiguity: Thrive in the highly uncertain early stages of innovation, defining clear technical paths forward when requirements are unknown or shifting. You translate extreme complexity—firmware constraints, hardware‑software trade‑offs, silicon maturity—into digestible commercial risk that gives client executives the confidence to make bold bets on unproven technologies.
• Think Like a Founder: Collaborate with business development to define new market offerings grounded in embedded systems innovation. You help shape the technical direction of our Energy and Industry practice—identifying where advances in edge compute, connectivity, and intelligent control create genuine new value for clients, and building the business case to pursue them.

Your success is measured not by on‑time delivery, but by client capability lift, strategic alignment, and the successful commercialisation of breakthrough technology. You will have opportunities to drive innovation across CC’s diverse market sectors, from industrial automation and energy to healthcare and beyond.

What You’ll bring to the role

• Deep Technical Expertise: Possess a deep technical foundation in embedded software and electronics—firmware architecture, hardware‑software integration, real‑time systems, and connected device design—using a 1st principles approach to transform complex problems into viable solutions.
• Proven Technology Leadership: A proven track record of leading complex technical programmes where the technical strategy and the commercial outcome were inseparable. You set direction, manage client expectations at the executive level, and know when to challenge the brief rather than execute it.
• Commercial & Strategic Focus: You prioritize value delivery over technical perfection. You can articulate why a technical decision matters to the client’s bottom line, their future valuation, or their competitive position—and can identify shared‑risk partnership opportunities that extend the relationship beyond fixed‑scope delivery.
• Integration Expertise: Experience delivering systems where embedded software and hardware are tightly coupled and where the value lies in the intelligence—control algorithms, connectivity, edge compute, and sensing—as much as in the physical design. You can articulate that value in commercial terms, not just engineering ones.
• Dynamic Communication: A resilient communicator who can translate firmware constraints and hardware trade‑offs into board‑room‑level commercial risk—while retaining the credibility and respect of deep technical SMEs. You engender the trust that allows clients to make bold bets on unproven technology.

Benefits

• Choice of medical, dental and vision plans
• Flexible spending accounts
• 22 vacation days for full‑time employees
• Competitive base salary
• Pay for performance
• Profit‑share bonus plan based on company and individual performance
• 401K with discretionary company match
• Life insurance
• Relocation assistance, if applicable
• 13 weeks fully paid parental leave
• Salary range $180‑210k

Cambridge Consultants is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Equal Employment Opportunity Posters.