Salary: Up to £55,000
Location: Salford, Manchester (3 days onsite, 2 days remote)
Hours: Flexible start and finish times

The Role: Join a dynamic R&D team at a leading company specializing in complex instrumentation equipment. As an Embedded Software Test Engineer, you’ll work on a variety of projects, performing both manual and automated testing.

What You’ll Do:
– Test Embedded Software, PC applications, and Precision Instrumentation Software.
– Perform a mix of Manual (30-40%) and Automated (60-70%) testing.
– Develop test scripts in languages like C#, Python, or others of your choice.
– Get involved from design to delivery, collaborating closely with Embedded Software Engineers.
– Primarily focus on black box functional testing, with opportunities for white box testing.

Ideal Candidate:
– Embedded Software Engineer passionate about testing, or
– Software Test Engineer with proven experience in embedded software testing

Skills Needed:
– Experience testing embedded software devices.
– Familiarity with both manual and automated testing.

If this sounds like the opportunity for you, reach out to Chris Oddy.

Job Title: Engineering Operations Manager

Salary: £45,000 – £55,000

Work Schedule: Manchester, Hybrid (2 days in office, 3 days remote)

Our client is seeking an experienced and dynamic Engineering Operations Manager to join their innovative team. This is an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology, playing a crucial role in managing and refining production processes, and ensuring seamless integration with third-party subcontractors.

Key Responsibilities:

• Operational Excellence: Collaborate with product managers and subcontract managers to refine production processes, ensuring that customer demands and product requirements are met efficiently.
• Subcontractor Management: Act as the primary point of contact for the subcontractor manufacturer, working to improve processes or identify new partners as needed.
• Team Leadership: Lead a dedicated embedded team, consisting of electronics and embedded software engineers, to ensure product quality and alignment with customer expectations.
• Technical Specifications: Define technical specifications by liaising with product managers, assessing customer feature requests, and determining feasibility, cost, and potential limitations.
• Problem Solving: Identify product limitations, risks, and challenges, communicating effectively with OEMs and partners to ensure seamless product functionality.
• Quality Assurance: Oversee the technical accuracy of installations and product performance, ensuring that all aspects of hardware and data integration meet the highest standards.
• Customer Support: Provide second-line support by addressing and resolving complex installation issues, ensuring consistency and accuracy in installation processes.
• Documentation and Training: Assist in creating and updating technical manuals and training materials, ensuring that installation guidelines are clear and up-to-date.

Qualifications:

• Strong background in engineering operations or technical project management.
• Excellent communication skills to articulate technical information clearly.
• Experience working with embedded systems and electronics.
• Ability to travel and a willingness to continuously learn and adapt to new technologies.

Our Client’s Product:

The product is an innovative hub with a temperature sensor, utilizing Modbus connections to manage heat efficiency through weather forecasts and electricity price data. The system is user-friendly, with an app-based interface for end-users.

Why Join Our Client?

This role offers the opportunity to be involved in the entire lifecycle of product implementation, from conception with product managers to successful and repeatable installations. If you are passionate about technology and thrive in a dynamic environment, this is the perfect opportunity for you to make a significant impact.

Apply now to join our client in transforming innovative ideas into practical solutions. If you’re ready to take on this exciting challenge, Andrew Knight at KO2 would love to hear from you!

Location of work: You can work remotely, only going to site when it makes sense.

Location of office: Bury, Manchester

The role:

KO2’s Bury based client are looking to recruit an embedded software engineer to the team. The business are leaders in the design and development of complex systems where IoT, machine communication and data collection and analytics work hand in hand. The business was founded by the current owner who is a seasoned electronics engineer with a vast background in working with electronics, embedded software and with that experience founded a business who are able to offer their clients complex, useful and productive real world solutions.

The business also do a lot of work on server side applications and as a result the business can offer the successful Software Engineer the ability to work on both embedded systems and server side software which is based on Linux. The embedded engineer would be able to work on Backend, Frontend, Systems programming and Cloud Infrastructure Services, which would result in the embedded engineer gaining an enviable and almost unicornesque skill set.

The business is a small and successful entity and as a result will offer the chosen embedded software engineer, access to share schemes, flexible working combined with the ability to work with cutting edge technology, such as processors like STM32, ARM Cortex or ESP32 whilst having the confidence to be customer facing and be involved in the entire project life cycle.

The key skills for this role are;

• Embedded C – Software & Firmware
• Experience working with electronics
• The ability to be customer facing

Some of the skills and experience below would be advantageous, but not essential:

• Knowledge or the desire to work with cellular modems, Ethernet, Zigbee as well as communication protocols such as HTTP, MQTT, TCP/IP
• Unit testing
• Source code version control
• Linux / Embedded Linux
• RTOS
• Backend, Frontend, Systems programming, Cloud Infrastructure Services