Electronics Software Engineer

Job Title: Electronics Software Engineer

Location: Burnley

Location of work: Very flexible hybrid Work from Home

Salary: Up to £50,000 + Benefits

An exciting new position has been created for an Electronics Software Engineer to join our SME sized client who specialise in the design and manufacture of high volume, battery powered IoT devices. The successful Electronics Software Engineer will be joining a growing engineering team with the chance to contribute to the development of a new range of products that will be sold around the UK and Europe.  Their office is in the Burnley area, but they offer very flexible work from home and you will only need to be onsite as a when required for task work (2/3 days a month).

Your workload will be split between electronics and embedded software design and you can expect the split to be 60/40 in favour of electronics design. You will be expected to contribute towards the full design life cycle of a new product range whilst also maintaining existing products. You will take part in design meetings and work closely with other engineers with your role including concept design, PCB design, circuit design, debugging hardware, embedded software programming and in house testing.

Skills and Experience Required:

  • Analogue and Digital circuit design
  • PCB design and Layout – Altium or Eagle ideally
  • Embedded C programming
  • Microcontroller development – PIC or ARM ideally
  • A range of serial protocols: SPI, I2C, CAN, UART, TCP/IP etc

Desirable Skill and Experience:

  • C++ programming
  • Wireless protocols – BLE, ZigBee, Wi-Fi etc

This role will best suit an Electronic Software Engineer who enjoys both software and hardware design and is keen to make a real impact in the design and development of a range of new products. You could either be an electronics engineer with some software skills looking to get more hands on with software design or an embedded software engineer with some electronics skills keen to develop your electronics circuit design skills.

In this role you will get the chance to work on a range of modern technologies and be actively encouraged to learn and develop new skills. On offer is a salary of up to £50,000 + pension, healthcare and very flexible working hours and remote arrangements.

Please contact Laurence Powell or Chris Fawcett at KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd to discuss this role in further detail.

Embedded Software Engineer

Position: Embedded Software Engineer

Location of Office: Blackburn

Location of work: Hybrid WFH available

Salary: £40,000 – £50,000 + Benefits

The Role: A new position has now been created for an Embedded Software Engineer to join our clients growing Engineering team as they work towards the development of a brand-new range of IoT connected devices.

In this role the successful Embedded Software Engineer can expect to take on a key role within software development decisions, design and research. You will work closely within a small team and have the chance to contribute throughout the full development life cycle, from initial concept through to production.

Skills and Experience Required:

  • C and C++ programming
  • Programming on Linux systems
  • RTOS platforms
  • Relevant degree qualification – Computer Science, Electronics Engineering etc

This will be a hands-on development role and you can expect your day-to-day responsibilities to vary and should expect plenty of variety of tasks in this role. With the main focus on the development of new products you can expect to be involved in concept meetings, product research, prototype development, software programming, in house testing, bug fixing and producing the required documentation.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

  • Wireless protocols – ZigBee, Wi-Fi, BLE Etc
  • Development of IoT connected devices
  • GIT or SVN version control

This role will best suit an Embedded Software Engineer with 3+years industry experience who is now keen to take on a new challenge and be involved in the design and development of a range of IoT connected devices that will be used across the UK and Europe.

Please contact Laurence Powell or Chris Fawcett at KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd to discuss this role in further detail.

Technical Author

Position: Technical Author

Salary: £40,000 – £50,000

Office Location: Manchester City Centre

The Role: Our client is now seeking an experienced Technical Author to join their engineering team in their central Manchester based offices. The successful candidate will be joining a rapidly growing software design consultancy whose core markets include automotive, medical, semiconductors and financial software solutions.

You will ideally have experience within a fast-paced software development environment, some experience within the automotive, medical electronics or finance software markets, be a detailed oriented, creative thinker and have experience with the following:

Skills and Experience Required:

  • Proven authoring experience in a software development environment.
  • Knowledge of markup languages such as HTML, XML or Markdown.
  • Familiarity with MS Office Suite (Outlook, Excel etc.)
  • Ability to work within a fast-paced environment.

In this role you will have the chance to create technical documentation, how to guides, technical blogs, industry level articles and other technical content to meet their customers requirements. This will include a mixture of internal and external documents so attention to detail and presenting a clear and concise message is vital.

Desirable Experience:

  • Familiarity with open-source tools within the marketing tech stack
  • Degree qualification within a relevant subject

Please contact Laurence Powell or Andrew Knight at KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd to discuss this role in further detail.

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Position: Senior Embedded Engineer

Salary: Up to £65,000

Location of Work: Flexible Hybrid Remote Working

Location of Office: Burnley

The Role: A new position has just been created for an experienced Embedded Engineer to join our clients growing engineering team and take on the lead role within their team. Our client design, develop and manufacture a range of IoT connected devices for a host of customers around the globe and are continuing to grow going in to 2024. This role can be done fully remotely with only the occasional visit to the office when required.

You will be the senior member of the embedded software team and remain hands on whilst also leading a small team of 3 engineers on technical tasks and their work loads. Ideally you will have a strong embedded design background and have experience developing brand new products whilst also supporting and updating legacy projects. In this role the successful Embedded Engineer will be expected to write and deliver robust, efficient code and will be given the chance to make a real impact in all new development projects.

You will be able to illustrate the successful completion of a rage of embedded software solutions and your core skills set should include Embedded C, RTOS development and a host of networking and comms protocols including: I2C, SPI, UART and CANBUS. Whilst any experience with JIRA, CI/CD, unit testing or MODBUS will really make your CV stand out.

Our client work to modern practices and as such are always open to using up to date technology and practices, the successful Embedded Software Engineer will be given access to all the tools necessary and be given the opportunity to introduce new practices into the development process

Skills and experience required:

  • Strong Embedded C programming
  • RTOS development
  • I2C, SPI and UART Interfaces
  • 16 – 32bit Microprocessors – Silicon Labs, ARM, PIC etc

Desirable skills and experience includes:

  • JIRA or CI/CD
  • Modbus or Profibus
  • Unit and integration testing processes

On offer is a salary of up to £65,000 + benefits and the chance to work fully remotely. This role will best suit an experienced Embedded Software Engineer who is keen to take ownership over the development of a range of IoT connected devices whilst working in a mainly remote working, flexible environment.

Please contact Chris Fawcett or Laurence Powell at KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd to discuss this role in further detail.

 

Software Engineer

Position: Software Engineer

Salary: Up to £55,000

Office Location: Manchester, City Centre + Hybrid WFH

The Role: Multiple exciting positions have now been created for Software Engineers to join a rapidly expanding software solutions company in central Manchester. The successful Software Engineers will be joining a growing team and be given the chance to contribute across a range of cutting-edge software solutions for a variety of industry sectors including autonomous vehicles, automation, finance and more. If you are a technical enthusiast, with 3+ years experience in industry or on personal projects this could be the role for you.

The team you will be joining is made up of a range of engineers covering multiple disciplines who are all technical enthusiasts and who have a passion for developing new products working to modern processes and methods. The ideal Software Engineers will be strong in a Linux environment ideally coding in C, C++, Python or Rust and will be comfortable contributing across the full design life cycle. Experience with embedded software development and open-source software will make your CV really stand out.

This role will best suit Software Engineers who are passionate about software development, looking to work with likeminded engineers and keen to have plenty of project variety in their role. Here no one project is the same so there are always new challenges and tasks to complete. Personal development and adding new skills and technologies to your profile is actively encouraged and there is also plenty of scope for career development within the business.

Skills and Experience Required:

  • C, C++, Python, Rust or Java programming
  • Linux environments
  • Modern software development processes

Desirable Skill and Experience:

  • Embedded software development
  • Linux device driver development
  • Open-Source Software
  • DevOps skills and technologies

Please contact Laurence Powell or Chris Fawcett at KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd to discuss this role in further detail or apply today with an up-to-date CV.

Embedded Software Engineer

Position: Embedded Software Engineer

Location of work: Fully Remote working

Salary: Up to 50,000

The Role: Due to continued growth our client is now seeking an experienced Embedded Engineer to join their team working towards the development of their next generation products. Their products improve people’s lives, and you will have the chance to make a real impact in all new development.

They offer a very flexible remote working scheme and are offering the right Embedded Software Engineer the chance to work on a variety of exciting new products. You will be joining small team working in an agile environment, so the ability to work closely with other engineers and experience working throughout the full development lifecycle is required.

Skills and Experience Required:

  • Embedded software design
  • C/C++ programming
  • RTOS experience– FreeRTOS, AzureRTOS, ThreadX etc

Desirable Skills and Experience:

  • ARM processors (STM32, Cortex-M)
  • Bare-metal development
  • Wireless protocols: Bluetooth, Zigbee, LoRaWAN, Thread etc

Please contact Laurence Powell or Chris Fawcett at KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd to discuss this role in further details.

Linux Systems Administrator

Position: Linux Systems Administrator

Salary: Up to £50,000

Location of Office: Manchester City Centre

Our client in central Manchester is now looking for an experienced Linux Systems Administrator to join their team. They develop and design a range of bespoke software solutions are looking for a System and Network Administrator to provide the infrastructure and support their development team needs.

This is a new role within the business and as such will give the successful candidate the chance to make a real impact and the chance to design and implement new systems and deployments to help the business cope as they continue to grow.

Key Skills & Experience Required:

  • Provision and management of private cloud infrastructure
  • Linux systems administration
  • Supporting GNU/Linux and Mac desktop environments
  • Configuration management and deployment
  • Networking basics such as VLANs, DHCP, Wireless networks etc

You will be joining a friendly and supportive team and be required to look after onsite and remote infrastructure and can expect your role to involve:

  • Designing and implementing new systems and deployments to cope with business growth.
  • Contribute to leading infrastructure endeavours, on both in company and client facing projects.
  • Ongoing maintenance of current infrastructure
  • Debugging system interaction issues
  • Providing desktop Linux & Mac technical support

Career and personal development are actively encouraged and any experience with Shell or Python scripting, CI/CD systems or Ansible would really make your CV stand out.

For more information on this fantastic opportunity please get in touch with Laurence Powell or Chris Fawcett from KO2 embedded recruitment solutions.

Lead Electronics Engineer

Position: Lead Electronics Engineer

Salary: Up to £65,000

Location of Office: Crewe

Location of Work: Hybrid Work from Home

Our client, a leading design consultancy are now seeking a Senior Electronics Engineer to take on a leading technical role within their engineering team. The successful Lead Electronics Engineer will have plenty of industry experience working throughout the full design life cycle and have some experience leading a small design team or taking a leading role in technical and project decisions.

Key Skills Required:

  • Analogue and digital circuit design
  • PCB design and layout
  • RS232, RS485, I2C, SPI, UART etc
  • Team leadership or management experience

In this role you will take on a lead role within the engineering team and can expect the role to be technically focused whilst also taking on responsibility for project decisions including team leading, assigning work packages, liaising with customers and creating product development plans and schedules.

Our client design a range of electronics devices for a host of clients across multiple industries so the successful Electronics Engineer can expect plenty of variety in daily tasks and should be comfortable working with analogue and digital circuit designs, multilayer PCB layouts, microcontrollers and a host of serial protocols (RS232, RS485, I2C, SPI, UART etc) whilst any experience with C/C++ programming or embedded Linux would really make your CV stand out.

Our client’s office is based in the Crewe area and offer hybrid work from home making them easily commutable by large parts of the northwest including the likes of Chester, Stoke-on-Trent, Macclesfield, Congleton, Warrington and Merseyside.

For more information on this fantastic opportunity please get in touch with Laurence Powell or Chris Fawcett from KO2 embedded recruitment solutions.

DevOps Engineer

Position: DevOps Engineer

Salary: £50,000 – £60,000

Location of work: Manchester City Centre

The Company: Our client is continuing to grow their technology team which is focused on the development of cutting-edge software solutions and tools for a host of interesting industry sectors including autonomous vehicles, financial software and medical devices.

Skills and Experience Required:

  • Azure or AWS or Google Cloud
  • CI/CD systems
  • Python or Ruby or Rust or Go or Bash
  • Docker, Kubernetes, or other container technology

The Role: The successful DevOps Engineer will be joining a growing team and will take on a critical role as they continue to increase their product and cloud service offering. The ideal DevOps Engineer will have industry experience in a similar role, ideally have worked in a R&D Environment and you can expect your role to involve design and deployment of continuous integration systems and services, working closely with the development team throughout the entire life cycle, designing and implementing high availability and reliable software solutions.

In this role you will get the chance to work on a range of projects and be actively encouraged to learn and develop new skills whilst working in a friendly, challenging environment within a team of like-minded technology enthusiasts.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

  • Linux systems
  • Ansible, Chef or Puppet
  • GitLab CI or GitHub actions

If you are interested in this fantastic, unique opportunity contact Laurence Powell or Chris Fawcett at KO2 Recruitment today.

Mechanical Design Engineer

Role: Solidworks Mechanical Design Engineer

Rate: up to £50 per hour, outside IR35

Location of work: Flexible hybrid. You can work largely remotely, but you should be flexible to come onsite when the task work requires

Contract length: 6 months initially

The Project: An electronics business who specialise in energy monitoring devices for the transport sector require a Mechanical Design Engineer for an initial 6 month contract which is highly likely to extend.
Due to a staff member being on long term sick a contractor is required to support the other Mechanical Engineer due to the amount of project work on. In this role you will be working on one big project which is at concept stage. You will also be required to work on multiple side projects to maintain and enhance existing products for customers.
The big project will require you to design a mass manufactured monitoring product which will be fitted along a wide range of railways across the UK. Although the product will be handheld in size it needs to be designed so it can be easily fitted and fixed to the railway line permanently and withstand harsh conditions e.g. shock, vibration, temperature.
To be suitable for this role you should be a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer who is confident using Solidworks. You should also have experience designing products that encloses electronic pcb’s, that uses plastic injection moulded parts, is mass manufactured and can perform in rugged environments.
This is an opportunity to work on exciting product developments which has interesting design challenges where you will work from concept through to manufacture.

Experience required:

  1. Solidworks
  2. Plastic Injection moulding
  3. Designed products that enclose electronic pcb’s
  4. DFM
  5. Rugged/ harsh environment design

Desirable experience (not essential):

  1. You have your own Solidworks CAD seat, ideally Solidworks 2023
  2. IEC 61010