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Senior Firmware Engineer
Location: Bristol; Hybrid
Join our client as a Senior Firmware Engineer! Are you a passionate Firmware Engineer wanting to make a real impact by giving a voice to those without speech? Our client is looking for a dedicated individual to help improve the lives of people with disabilities.
Your Impact
- Technical Project Delivery: Deliver multi disciplinary projects, meeting scope, time, budget and quality requirements, and coordinating others as needed.
- Firmware Architecture and Lifecycle: Develop reliable, portable firmware with a long-life cycle.
- Firmware Development: Design, develop and maintain embedded firmware in C for Zephyr RTOS and Embedded Linux, including board bring up, drivers and HALs.
- Code Quality and Standards: Set and uphold coding, documentation and review standards, ensuring best practices in architecture, modularity, fault tolerance and testability.
- Test strategy and Automation: Apply strong automated testing practices following the Test Pyramid, including unit, component, contract and hardware in the loop tests, with CI automation to prevent regressions.
- Test Software and Tooling: Build and maintain automated test harnesses, GUIs and utility tools (e.g. Python, C#) to support development, validation and manufacturing.
- Libraries and Developer Experience: Create libraries and demo applications in C compatible languages (C#, C++) to support subsystem validation and cross team integration.
- Verification and Validation: EAD verification through lab testing, user trials and real world use, ensuring documentation supports regulatory compliance.
- Quality Assurance: Analyse and resolve quality issues promptly, feeding insights back into designs and processes to drive continuous improvement.
- Technical Strategy: Contribute to strategy for reliable, mission critical firmware, clearly communicating trade offs and enabling strong decision making.
- Mentoring and Leadership: Mentor Engineers, provide coaching and support, and help foster a positive, collaborative team culture.
Essential Qualifications / Skills / Experience
- Degree or equivalent experience in an engineering subject (Electronics, Computer Science, Software), Physics, Mathematics, or another scientific subject.
- 8+ years of experience in embedded software development in C.
- A strong knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis.
- A strong grounding in embedded software architecture, with a focus on maintainability, modularity, fault-tolerance and testability.
- Confident and experienced with automated testing, including unit, integration and system tests, mocking and automation frameworks.
- A strong understanding of API design and the creation of clear, stable abstractions for hardware / firmware interaction.
- Skilled at debugging in constrained environments and using hardware / software debugging tools.
- A proven track record of innovation and quality software development throughout the entire software product lifecycle.
- Ability to solve complex technical problems in elegant and maintainable ways, demonstrating systems thinking across hardware, firmware and application layers.
- Experience with embedded platforms (for example: Embedded Linux, Arduino, STM32, Nordic, Zephyr RTOS).
- A passion and drive for excellence in software craftsmanship.
- Linux, Bash / shell, CI (Continuous integration) experience.
- Ability to read electronics schematics and collaborate effectively with Hardware Engineers during bring-up and debugging.
- Technical leadership through influence – able to guide architecture and standards, mentor others, and improve team-wide practices.
- Practical, proactive mindset – comfortable taking initiative and working through ambiguity in a fast-moving team.
- Proven experience in people or team management, with the ability to lead, motivate, and develop others.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build positive working relationships at all levels.
- Proven ability to foster high performing, engaged, and collaborative teams.
Rewards and Benefits
Explore competitive salary, private medical insurance, hybrid working, wellness benefits and paid volunteering days.
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Location: Bristol
Job Description:
Senior Firmware Engineer
Location: Bristol; Hybrid
Join our client as a Senior Firmware Engineer! Are you a passionate Firmware Engineer wanting to make a real impact by giving a voice to those without speech? Our client is looking for a dedicated individual to help improve the lives of people with disabilities.
Your Impact
- Technical Project Delivery: Deliver multi disciplinary projects, meeting scope, time, budget and quality requirements, and coordinating others as needed.
- Firmware Architecture and Lifecycle: Develop reliable, portable firmware with a long-life cycle.
- Firmware Development: Design, develop and maintain embedded firmware in C for Zephyr RTOS and Embedded Linux, including board bring up, drivers and HALs.
- Code Quality and Standards: Set and uphold coding, documentation and review standards, ensuring best practices in architecture, modularity, fault tolerance and testability.
- Test strategy and Automation: Apply strong automated testing practices following the Test Pyramid, including unit, component, contract and hardware in the loop tests, with CI automation to prevent regressions.
- Test Software and Tooling: Build and maintain automated test harnesses, GUIs and utility tools (e.g. Python, C#) to support development, validation and manufacturing.
- Libraries and Developer Experience: Create libraries and demo applications in C compatible languages (C#, C++) to support subsystem validation and cross team integration.
- Verification and Validation: EAD verification through lab testing, user trials and real world use, ensuring documentation supports regulatory compliance.
- Quality Assurance: Analyse and resolve quality issues promptly, feeding insights back into designs and processes to drive continuous improvement.
- Technical Strategy: Contribute to strategy for reliable, mission critical firmware, clearly communicating trade offs and enabling strong decision making.
- Mentoring and Leadership: Mentor Engineers, provide coaching and support, and help foster a positive, collaborative team culture.
Essential Qualifications / Skills / Experience
- Degree or equivalent experience in an engineering subject (Electronics, Computer Science, Software), Physics, Mathematics, or another scientific subject.
- 8+ years of experience in embedded software development in C.
- A strong knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis.
- A strong grounding in embedded software architecture, with a focus on maintainability, modularity, fault-tolerance and testability.
- Confident and experienced with automated testing, including unit, integration and system tests, mocking and automation frameworks.
- A strong understanding of API design and the creation of clear, stable abstractions for hardware / firmware interaction.
- Skilled at debugging in constrained environments and using hardware / software debugging tools.
- A proven track record of innovation and quality software development throughout the entire software product lifecycle.
- Ability to solve complex technical problems in elegant and maintainable ways, demonstrating systems thinking across hardware, firmware and application layers.
- Experience with embedded platforms (for example: Embedded Linux, Arduino, STM32, Nordic, Zephyr RTOS).
- A passion and drive for excellence in software craftsmanship.
- Linux, Bash / shell, CI (Continuous integration) experience.
- Ability to read electronics schematics and collaborate effectively with Hardware Engineers during bring-up and debugging.
- Technical leadership through influence – able to guide architecture and standards, mentor others, and improve team-wide practices.
- Practical, proactive mindset – comfortable taking initiative and working through ambiguity in a fast-moving team.
- Proven experience in people or team management, with the ability to lead, motivate, and develop others.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build positive working relationships at all levels.
- Proven ability to foster high performing, engaged, and collaborative teams.
Rewards and Benefits
Explore competitive salary, private medical insurance, hybrid working, wellness benefits and paid volunteering days.
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Posted: May 18th, 2026