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.

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.

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.

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.

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.