Embedded Software Engineer

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 4 May 2026
LOCATION
Chessington
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Software Engineering
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SKILLS

C C++ ARM Microcontrollers SPI UART I2C Multi-threaded Programming Version Control

FULL DESCRIPTION

Embedded Software Engineer

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is hiring a Digital Embedded Software Engineer to join our R&D team based in Chessington, UK. This is a full-time position (37.5 hours per week).

Job Description

To work with product specialists and other members of the R&D team to specify, design, develop, test and support embedded software for sophisticated digital audio mixing products. The sub-systems that you will be working with typically operate alongside higher-level applications and audio-processing engines and provide interfacing to electromechanical user-interfaces.

Your Role Will Involve

Reporting to the Software Team Leader you will be responsible for:

  • Working with product specialists to define requirements and specifications for new sub-systems and functionality.
  • Taking ownership of the design and development of new subsystems, developing software, working with other members of the team to manage integration, collaborate on problem solving and provide mutual peer-review.
  • Testing your own code, including devising test strategies and creating test harnesses where required, before handing over to the product testing team for formal acceptance testing.
  • Documenting your designs and delivered sub-systems.
  • Working with product support specialists to diagnose bug reports in existing code and developing resolutions.
  • Working with colleagues to evolve and improve our development, integration and test environments.
  • Working with colleagues to evolve and improve the structure of our codebases.

Education / Qualifications

  • Good degree (2.1 or 1st) in Computer Science, Engineering or another subject with a high mathematical and software development component; or if not be able to demonstrate a corresponding level of understanding and expertise gained through an alternative life-path.
  • MSc or PhD in a software, electronics, signal processing or audio engineering topic would also be very useful.

Essential Attributes & Skills

  • Proficient in C and/or C++
  • Experienced in developing on ARM-based microcontrollers.
  • Experience with serial interfaces (e.g. SPI, UART, I2C)
  • Experienced in developing multi-threaded applications in a time-critical, resource constrained environment
  • Experience with software version control
  • Experience of hardware debugging and use of oscilloscopes
  • Able to read and understand a circuit diagram
  • Able to take requirements through a systematic process of design, coding, test with supporting documentation.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Able to work effectively in a team
  • Able to produce high quality software to a deadline
  • Able to plan and manage own time and priorities effectively

Desirable Skills

  • Experience with Xilinx Zynq devices
  • Experience with NXP i.MX devices
  • Experience with Linux
  • Experience with Yocto
  • Experience of interfacing to FPGA and DSP devices and associated firmware
  • Experience with FreeRTOS
  • Experience with networking interfaces, protocols and drivers.
  • Experience with USB
  • Experience using audio mixing systems or pro audio

Application Instructions

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