Power System Engineer

Role: Principal or Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Location: Chester

Salary: competitive

** This role is exclusive to Cortech so please apply via this advert**

** You must have power protection relays experience **

Role Overview

A senior technical leadership role responsible for embedded software architecture, project delivery, and guiding a multidisciplinary engineering team. The position requires deep embedded systems expertise, strong project ownership, and the ability to balance high‐level system design with hands‐on implementation.

Core Responsibilities

• Define and own embedded software architecture across multiple product lines.

• Lead project scoping, planning, resource allocation, and delivery.

• Produce clear technical documentation, architectural designs, and test strategies.

• Oversee code quality, conduct code reviews, and ensure robust CI/CT/CD practices.

• Mentor engineers, support cross‐functional collaboration, and communicate risks and mitigations.

• Ensure releases are fully tested, secure, and production‐ready.

• Contribute to innovative design decisions and continuous improvement of engineering processes.

Essential Technical Skills

• Advanced C/C++ for embedded systems.

• Strong experience with real‐time operating systems (FreeRTOS or similar).

• Deep understanding of multithreading, concurrency, and real‐time performance optimisation.

• Experience with embedded systems for data acquisition, control, communications, and bare‐metal development.

• Strong knowledge of Ethernet networking, including UDP/TCP/IP, TLS, unicast/multicast/broadcast.

• Peripheral interfacing: SPI, I2C, memory devices.

• Experience working with IP stacks and open‐source libraries.

• Proven delivery of commercial embedded products on MCU platforms such as ARM Cortex, PIC24/32, ESP32, STM32, MSP.

• Ability to break down complex requirements into deliverable work packages.

• Ability to read and interpret schematics, datasheets, and hardware documentation.

• Experience with power protection relays or protection‐related embedded systems (added as requested).

Desirable Skills

• Knowledge of industrial or utility communication protocols (e.g., DNP3, IEC 61850, IEC 60870‐5‐101/103/104, Modbus, BACnet).

• Experience with IoT/IIoT, cloud/enterprise platform integration, or industrial automation.

• Linux or BalenaOS experience; containers; scripting languages; Python; C#.

• Familiarity with VLANs, LLDP, SSH, SNMP, LDAP/RADIUS.

• Wireshark proficiency.

• Experience setting up or managing CI/CT/CD pipelines.

• Web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS), database interfacing (e.g., MySQL), or desktop application development.

How to apply?

Please email a CV to danni@cortechtalentsolutions.co.uk