Lead Embedded Linux Engineer

Lead Embedded Linux Engineer

• Senior level salary offered
• Hybrid working pattern offered
• Free daily parking
• 5 mins walk from local train station
• Beautiful offices and rural location
• Excellent package offered, including perks, pension, life assurance etc.
• Generous holiday allowance.
• Existing senior team, very strong emphasis on support and knowledge sharing

My client are market specialists in their particular field.

There are award winning, with their technology used in countries all over the world.

They are currently in need of a highly-skilled, Senior Embedded Linux Software Engineer to join their team.

This is a hands-on, technically focused role within a collaborative engineering group that values clean, robust, and testable code. You’ll contribute to both new product features and the ongoing evolution of an established embedded platform — tackling performance, reliability, and long-term maintainability challenges along the way.

This is a hands-on role that combines technical delivery and software development with people leadership

You will be a technically astute professional, with proven ability to contributing directly to embedded software projects whilst acting as a technical lead within multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities:

• Working across a multidisciplinary team, potentially mentoring with more junior members of the engineering team
• Lead the development, enhancement, and maintenance of embedded Linux software for advanced communication systems.
• Developing firmware components for products in an Embedded Linux environment
• Technical documentation to be presented to internal and external stakeholders
• Design and implement software components, communication protocols, and algorithms while ensuring compliance with performance standards and industry guidelines.

Key Skills required:

• Some experience of leadership, with small or large project teams.
• Experience with embedded software development, covering a relevant subset of technologies such as RTOS environments, embedded Linux, and ideally exposure to higher layer languages and application frameworks.
• Relevant embedded experience in areas such as device drivers, DSP, algorithm design and implementation, communications and application layer protocols, AI and ML, user interfaces.

This is a hands-on role that combines technical delivery and software development with people leadership. The successful candidate will provide line management for their team, support project planning and resourcing, contribute directly to engineering work, and help develop and maintain best practices across the group.

If you feel you have the relevant experience, as stated above, please apply with an updated copy of your CV and we will contact you.