About the Company

Our award-winning client is seeking an Electronics Design Engineer to join their growing engineering team. The company develops innovative products and are well known reliability and utilising up to date technology. fAs a thriving SME, they offer the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies while maintaining a collaborative and flexible working environment.

Based in Harrogate, the company supports hybrid working and is happy to accommodate home working where practical.

The Role

This position is ideal for a well-rounded Electronics Design Engineer who enjoys developing new products and taking ownership throughout the entire design lifecycle. You will work closely within a small, multidisciplinary team and have the opportunity to engage directly with customers, contributing from concept through to production.

The successful candidate will have experience across electronic product development, with a strong foundation in both hardware design and problem-solving. Experience working on low-power, wireless-connected products would be highly advantageous.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Digital and analogue circuit design
• PCB design and layout (Altium Designer preferred)
• Degree qualification in Electronics Engineering or a related discipline
• Microcontroller design

Desirable Skills

• EMC compliance and standards knowledge
• Experience with wireless communication technologies such as RF, Bluetooth, ZigBee, and Wi-Fi
• Embedded C programming

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If you are interested in this opportunity and would like to find out more, please contact Andrew Knight or Laurence Powell at KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions.

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Location: Norwich – mainly onsite role

KO2’s client is an innovative engineering company specialising in the design and development of advanced electronic solutions. Due to continued growth, they are looking to recruit an experienced Electronics Engineer to join their engineering team in Norwich.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies, developing power electronics hardware for next-generation platforms. The successful candidate will play a key role in the design, development, validation, and production release of power electronic systems including DC-DC converters, traction inverters, battery chargers, and associated control and interface circuitry.

The role would suit an engineer with a strong background in power electronics who enjoys taking designs from initial concept through to production release while ensuring products are robust, manufacturable, cost-effective, and capable of meeting demanding performance and reliability targets.

The Role

As an Electronics Engineer, you will:

• Design and develop power electronics hardware including DC-DC converters, traction inverters, battery chargers, and associated control, sensing, and communication circuits.
• Support projects through the full development lifecycle, from concept and schematic design through PCB layout, prototyping, validation, and production introduction.
• Design power stages, gate drives, analogue and digital interfaces, sensing circuits, protection systems, communications interfaces, and thermal management solutions.
• Apply structured engineering methodologies including design reviews, tolerance analysis, derating, FMEA, and design-for-manufacture principles.
• Ensure designs are robust against environmental variation, component tolerances, manufacturing variation, EMC requirements, and real-world operating conditions.
• Collaborate closely with firmware, controls, systems, mechanical, manufacturing, and quality teams to deliver production-ready products.

Key Requirements

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Proven experience in power electronics hardware design within automotive, industrial, motorsport, electrification, or related sectors.
• Experience developing DC-DC converters, traction inverters, battery chargers, or other high-power electronic systems.
• Strong understanding of power electronics topologies including three-phase inverter bridges, resonant converters, bidirectional DC-DC converters, and PFC circuits.
• Knowledge of design methodologies such as FMEA, derating, tolerance analysis, DFM, DFA, DFT, and design-for-cost.
• Good understanding of electronics manufacturing processes including PCB fabrication, assembly, production tolerances, and yield optimisation.
• Experience supporting products through prototype, pilot build, validation, and production release phases.
• Experience using simulation tools such as MATLAB/Simulink, LTspice, Simetrix, or equivalent.
• Experience with electronic CAD tools, ideally Altium Designer.
• Strong understanding of PCB layout considerations for power electronics, including EMC, thermal management, isolation, grounding, creepage, and clearance requirements.
• Experience with EMC compliance, debugging, and mitigation techniques.

What’s on Offer?

• Opportunity to work on advanced electric drive and power electronics technologies.
• Exposure to cutting-edge automotive and mobility projects.
• Collaborative engineering environment with genuine technical challenges.
• Competitive salary package.
• Long-term career development opportunities within a growing technology-focused organisation.

Apply today with an up to date CV and a member of the KO2 Recruitment team will be in touch to discuss.

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Location: Manchester + Hybrid Working From Home
Salary: Up to £57,000 DOE + Benefits

KO2’s client is seeking a Software Engineer to join their established engineering team based in Manchester. This is an excellent opportunity for a software developer who enjoys solving technical challenges, working within a collaborative environment, and continuously developing their skills.

The role is particularly suited to engineers who have experience developing software for real-world products, embedded systems, or environments where performance, efficiency, and resource management are important considerations.

KO2’s client has a proven track record of supporting engineers from a range of technical backgrounds and helping them develop new skills whilst working on innovative products.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain high-quality software solutions.
• Develop software that forms part of real-world products and systems.
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to deliver reliable and efficient solutions.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to software architecture and design discussions.
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve technical issues.
• Support continuous improvement of development processes and engineering best practices.

What KO2’s Client Is Looking For

Essential

• Commercial experience in object-oriented software development.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles and development practices.
• Experience with programming language such as C#, C, C++
• Microsoft Visual Studio & git version control.
• Experience working on software that interacts with hardware, physical products, industrial systems, or embedded platforms, or a genuine interest in moving into this type of environment.
• Understanding of performance optimisation, efficient memory usage, or development within resource-constrained environments.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively within a team.

Desirable

• Experience with embedded software development.
• Experience working within memory-constrained or performance-critical systems.
• Experience with C# and .NET technologies.
• Fieldbus, industrial Ethernet protocols, MQTT
• Knowledge of modern software development methodologies.
• Exposure to electronics, industrial automation, instrumentation, IoT, or other product-development environments.

The Person

KO2’s client values attitude, curiosity, and a willingness to learn just as highly as technical capability. They are open to candidates from a variety of backgrounds, including embedded systems, industrial software, games development, and other engineering disciplines.

The ideal candidate will enjoy understanding how software interacts with real products and systems and will be motivated by solving complex technical problems. They will be someone who embraces learning opportunities and can grow within a supportive engineering team.

What’s On Offer

• Hybrid working, combining home working with time in the Manchester office.
• A supportive and collaborative engineering environment.
• Exposure to technically challenging projects and real-world products.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Ongoing mentoring and professional development opportunities.
• Long-term career progression within a growing business.

Apply

If you’re a Software Engineer with experience of, or an interest in, embedded systems, real-world products, or resource-constrained environments, and you’re looking for a role where your potential is valued as highly as your current experience, KO2’s client would be keen to hear from you.

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The Opportunity
KO2’s consultants have 19 years of experience placing engineers across start-ups and established businesses alike. In that time, we have never encountered an opportunity quite like this one. Our client is building something that has genuinely never been attempted before: a range of high-performance brushless motors operating at 1 kW to 15 kW across 6S to 14S voltage, manufactured in what will be the most advanced electronics and motor production facility in Europe, and designed through an AI-driven platform that sits at the heart of their engineering process.

This is not a start-up with a bold idea and no route to market. The founding team have built a Formula 1 team, founded a business valued at over one billion pounds, and includes an elite principal from one of the most celebrated British design institutions in the world. The commercial acumen, the capital backing, and the technical vision are all in place. What is unique and unprecedented here is that all three exist simultaneously, in one founding team.

The Role
As a founding hire, you will own electromagnetic motor architecture and motor control from end to end. You will design slot and pole configurations, winding topologies, magnet strategies, and rotor and stator geometry for compact, high-efficiency brushless motors. You will then design and validate the field-oriented control algorithms that run on those motors, closing the loop between the magnetic circuit and the controller in a way that most businesses leave to two separate teams in two separate rooms.

The product range sits at 1 kW to 15 kW across 6S to 14S battery voltage, compact, demanding, and with a design element that has never been brought to market before. You will use Motor-CAD or equivalent electromagnetic FEA, MATLAB/Simulink, and a HIL environment you will help build. The company’s AI platform and robotics-driven manufacturing facility mean your designs feed directly into a production system that is itself unlike anything currently operating in Europe.
Aerospace and defence experience is a strong advantage. The quality, reliability, and traceability standards of those sectors are the benchmark the business is working to.

What We Are Looking For
Five or more years of hands-on experience in electromagnetic motor design and FOC motor control for BLDC or PMSM applications. Proficiency in Motor-CAD, FEMM, JMAG, or equivalent. Fluency in MATLAB/Simulink and model-based design. Experience with HIL test environments and motor parameter identification. Winding design knowledge, conductor selection, turn count, topology trade-offs. A background in aerospace, defence, UAV, or high-reliability industrial applications is highly desirable but not essential. A PhD or degree in electrical engineering, electrical machines, or control engineering is preferred.

What This Role Will Do For You
There are very few roles in the UK, or in Europe, that will advance your technical and commercial standing as rapidly as this one. You will be working at the frontier of motor design, AI-driven manufacturing, robotics, and machine learning alongside engineers and entrepreneurs who have operated at the very highest levels of their respective fields. Your CV and your skill set will be in a different league if you get the chance to work for this company. The founding team equity on offer reflects the seriousness with which the business regards its earliest hires.

To apply, please send your CV to KO2. If you know someone who would be a strong fit for this role, exceptional referral fees are available, please get in touch with our team directly.

Apply or Refer a Colleague
Exceptional referral fees are paid. If you know a motor design or electromagnetic control engineer who would be right for this role, please contact KO2’s team. We reward great introductions generously.

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An innovative technology company developing next-generation odour intelligence and sensing systems is looking for a VP / Director of Sensing Science to lead and shape its sensing and scientific R&D capability.

This is a rare opportunity to join a rapidly growing, venture-backed business that combines advanced sensor technology, AI/ML, data science and chemical sensing to build products capable of detecting and interpreting biological and environmental signals in ways not previously possible.

The company has recently completed an oversubscribed seed funding round and already has commercial products in the market, alongside an expanding pipeline across pest control, agriculture, animal health and future public health applications.

What the business does

The company develops intelligent sensing platforms that analyse volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and odours using combinations of:

• Gas and chemical sensors
• Sensor fusion
• Embedded systems and IoT hardware
• Machine learning and AI classification
• Data science and large-scale data platforms

Their technology is already being used commercially and the business is now scaling both its R&D capability and product development pipeline.

Projects range from smart pest monitoring systems through to animal health diagnostics and emerging human health applications.

The Role

This role will sit at the centre of the company’s scientific and sensing strategy.

You will lead the sensing science and R&D direction of the business, bringing greater scientific rigour, technical leadership and coordination across sensing, experimentation, hardware integration and data science.

You’ll work closely with engineering, firmware, software and data science teams to guide how sensors are selected, tested, integrated and optimised within real-world products.

This is a highly technical leadership role rather than a pure management position.

The company is specifically looking for someone with deep sensor expertise who can bridge the gap between:

• Sensor technologies
• Experimental design
• Product development
• Data interpretation
• Machine learning outputs
• Hardware integration

You’ll help shape how sensing technologies are deployed across a broad range of applications and products.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading the company’s sensing science and R&D function
• Managing and mentoring multidisciplinary scientific teams
• Defining experimental design and testing methodologies
• Guiding sensor selection for new product applications
• Evaluating sensor performance, limitations and deployment suitability
• Working closely with hardware and engineering teams on sensor integration
• Collaborating with data scientists to interpret sensor outputs and improve ML models
• Helping turn early-stage concepts into scalable commercial products
• Supporting the development of the company’s growing sensing and AI platform
• Influencing future hiring and technical direction within the business

The role will also involve working with external partners and customers on “discovery” projects, where the company develops bespoke sensing solutions for new commercial applications.

Examples of projects include:

• Pest detection and monitoring
• Agricultural sensing
• Companion animal diagnostics
• Environmental monitoring
• Public health and disease detection
• Odour and VOC analysis

What They’re Looking For

The ideal candidate will combine strong scientific credibility with practical product development experience.

You do not need to be an expert in every area, but you must have deep expertise in sensing technologies and understand how sensor data is used in real-world systems.

Likely background areas:

• Sensor technologies
• Gas sensing
• Chemical sensing
• VOC sensing
• Embedded sensing systems
• Sensor fusion
• Analytical chemistry
• Chemical ecology
• Machine learning for sensor systems
• Scientific R&D leadership

Experience they are particularly interested in:

• Managing scientific or technical R&D teams
• Working with multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Productising sensing technologies
• Translating research into commercial products
• Working with data science / ML teams
• Designing experiments and interpreting scientific data

Sensor technologies of interest include:

• Metal oxide gas sensors
• MEMS sensors
• Electrochemical sensors
• PID sensors
• FBAR sensors

The company understands this is an extremely niche hire, so they are open to candidates from academia, research organisations or commercial environments — provided you can combine scientific depth with practical, hands-on product thinking.

Curiosity, adaptability and the ability to learn quickly are considered just as important as ticking every technical box.

Working Arrangement

• Based in Dagenham, Essex
• 2–3 days per week onsite
• Some travel to Scotland to work with the data science team
• Hybrid flexibility available

Why Join?

• Opportunity to shape a genuinely unique sensing technology platform
• Work on cutting-edge AI and sensor-driven products
• Join a business already generating commercial revenue
• Significant influence over technical direction and future growth
• Diverse applications across multiple industries
• Fast-growing, well-funded technology environment
• Chance to work on technology with major long-term public health potential

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KO2’s client, an innovative and fast-growing technology company, is looking for an Embedded Software Engineer to join their expanding team based in Blackburn.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an engineer with 3+ years commercial embedded software experience who is keen to work on cutting-edge products and contribute to the development of new technologies and integrations.

Key Responsibilities:
• Embedded software development using C
• Working with TI MSP430 and STM32 microcontrollers
• Bare-metal embedded programming
• Enhancing and maintaining existing codebases
• Adding new features and improving system functionality
• Collaborating closely with hardware engineers and understanding hardware design considerations

The successful candidate will play a key role in enhancing and maintaining the existing embedded software codebase, while also contributing to the development of new features and functionality across a growing product range. You’ll also gain exposure to a proprietary wireless communication protocol, making adaptability and a willingness to learn essential for success in the role.

With a strong focus on rapid product development, the company consistently brings new products to market, offering engineers the chance to work on varied and technically challenging projects in a fast-paced environment.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic engineering team where you’ll gain hands-on experience across the full product lifecycle while contributing to innovative embedded systems projects.

The role offers a salary of up to £45,000 alongside the opportunity to grow your career within a supportive and forward-thinking environment.
If you’re passionate about embedded technology and looking for your next challenge, KO2’s client would love to hear from you.

Apply today to take the next step in your embedded software engineering career.

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Location: Pickering, North Yorkshire

Our client is seeking a motivated and innovative Electrical / Electronics Engineer to join their growing R&D team in North Yorkshire. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in new product development, concept generation, and the continuous improvement of existing technologies within a dynamic engineering environment.

The ideal candidate will have 3+ years experience in a similar Electrical/Electronics Engineering role, looking to further develop their technical expertise across varied and challenging projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of new products and engineering innovations within the R&D department
• Support both standalone projects and larger multidisciplinary engineering programmes
• Produce detailed electrical design specifications and technical documentation
• Provide electrical and electronic design input across multiple projects
• Support and mentor junior engineering team members
• Deliver technical support to production, logistics, and integration teams
• Assist Sales and Marketing teams with technical content for quotations and proposals
• Provide off-site engineering support for both new installations and existing systems
• Support the creation of operating manuals and maintenance documentation
• Assist customers with technical support and operator training
• Ensure all work complies with company procedures and relevant national/international standards
• Deliver projects within agreed budgets and timescales
• Undertake additional engineering duties as required by the Engineering Manager

Technical Experience Required

Candidates should have experience in several of the following areas:

• Electric motors
• Power distribution and protection systems
• Variable speed drives and soft starters
• Electrical wiring distribution systems
• Communication systems and industrial protocols
• Industrial sensors and associated equipment
• Fibre optic multiplexers and related systems
• Analogue circuit design
• Digital and analogue electronic circuit design
• PCB design, prototyping, and manufacturing standards

Ideal Skills & Qualifications

• Degree qualified in Electrical or Electronic Engineering
• Solid engineering fundamentals with strong technical problem-solving ability
• Ability to interpret and produce technical drawings
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications
• Experience with AutoCAD or DraftSight
• Experience using Altium Designer
• Enthusiastic and willing to learn new technologies and engineering practices

What’s on Offer

• Competitive salary, dependent on experience
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Opportunity to work on innovative R&D and product development projects
• Diverse and technically challenging work
• Supportive and collaborative engineering environment
• Ongoing professional development and career progression opportunities

If you are an ambitious Electrical / Electronics Engineer looking to develop your career within an innovative engineering environment in North Yorkshire, we would love to hear from you.

Apply today with your CV and a covering letter outlining your suitability for the role.

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Location: Lancaster + Hybrid Work from Home

Salary: Up to £70,000

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Applications Engineer to help our client to scale the deployment of technology solutions into real-world client environments — guiding customers from initial engagement through live trials and into full production.

The successful Applications Engineer will be the first hire within the new function; this role offers significant ownership and the opportunity to shape how implementation and delivery operate as the business grows.

The technology spans mobile, cloud, manufacturing and machine vision, so you’ll thrive working at the intersection of physical and digital systems. You’ll be comfortable solving complex, undefined problems and creating scalable processes where no playbook yet exists.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Acting as the senior technical lead during customer engagements and sales opportunities
• Defining realistic timelines, dependencies, and technical risks
• Leading customer trials end-to-end, including hands-on support during live production testing
• Managing technical onboarding and accelerating time-to-production while maintaining quality
• Integrating technology into customer systems and operational workflows
• Troubleshooting across hardware, software, manufacturing, and integration environments
• Building scalable implementation processes, tools, and playbooks to support multiple parallel deployments
• Training customer teams to become operationally and technically production-ready
• Feeding implementation insights back into engineering and product teams to improve delivery and scalability

Key Experience & Skills

• Experience delivering and implementing integrated hardware and software solutions
• Strong background in applications engineering, field engineering, implementation engineering, or similar customer-facing technical roles
• Proven troubleshooting capability during live trials, commissioning, pilots, or production ramp-ups
• Solid software understanding, including mobile SDKs and cloud APIs, with the ability to bridge software workflows and physical systems
• Experience in startup or scale-up environments, with the ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and improve delivery processes as the business grows
• Strong communication skills across engineering, operations, and IT stakeholders
• Comfortable leveraging automation and AI tools to improve execution, efficiency, and scalability

Nice to Have

• Experience with machine vision systems, production or print lines, and quality control systems
• Experience within security printing, anti-counterfeit, authentication, or brand protection industries

Location & Travel

This role is based in Lancaster, with an expectation of at least 3 days per week in the office.

Regular UK and international travel to customer sites is required. Much of the work is hands-on, supporting line production environments under real operational conditions.

Benefits

• 30 days annual leave plus public holidays
• Relocation support for candidates moving to Lancaster
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid working
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Pension scheme
• Performance bonus
• Participation in the company share scheme

Apply today with an up-to-date CV for this exciting new Applications Engineer opportunity.

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This is not just a process role. Our client is looking for a Production Manager with genuine people skills. Someone who leads with presence, earns respect on the production floor, and knows how to get the best out of a team. It’s a great business with a positive culture where people genuinely enjoy working together.

What the Role Involves

• Leading Team Leaders and production staff across multiple production zones
• Driving output, quality, and OTIF performance through engaged, motivated teams
• Championing Lean and continuous improvement using VTPS methodology
• Collaborating with Planning, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, and HR
• Managing budgets, labour costs, and KPIs with a hands-on leadership style
• Maintaining compliance with ISO 45001 and ISO 9001 standards

What you’ll need

• 5+ years in a manufacturing or production leadership role
• A strong track record as a people manager. Coaching, developing, and motivating teams
• Experience managing Team Leaders in a multidisciplinary environment
• Lean manufacturing knowledge (Yellow Belt or equivalent a plus)
• Familiarity with MRP/ERP systems, ideally SAP
• Degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, or Operations (desirable, not essential)

Key Skills

People leadership | Lean / CI | Production planning | Team development | SAP / ERP | Budget management | ISO 45001 | ISO 9001 | VTPS

If you’re an experienced Production Manager looking for a role where your leadership style is valued as much as your technical knowledge, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now or get in touch for a confidential conversation.

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Location: Ealing Area – With Hybrid Working from Home
Salary: Up to £75,000 + Extensive Benefits

The Role

KO2’s client is looking for a Lead Embedded Software Engineer to drive the development of robust, scalable embedded software solutions for next-generation electric products. This role combines hands-on technical delivery with small-team leadership, offering the opportunity to influence architecture, mentor engineers, and shape the future direction of embedded platforms.

You will play a key role across the full product lifecycle — from early-stage prototyping and system design through to production, manufacturing, and long-term product support — while helping build engineering best practices and delivery capability within the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of high-quality embedded software that is efficient, maintainable, scalable, and production-ready
• Provide technical leadership to a small embedded software team, supporting task planning, technical direction, mentoring, and code reviews
• Collaborate closely with hardware, systems, and manufacturing teams to support board bring-up, debugging, integration, and system validation
• Own key architectural decisions, helping define software frameworks, coding standards, development processes, and long-term platform strategy
• Design, implement, test, and maintain embedded software for internally developed electric systems and connected devices
• Investigate and resolve complex real-time issues relating to timing, performance, reliability, and signal integrity
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across tooling, automation, testing, and development workflows
• Contribute to project planning, technical estimation, risk management, and delivery milestones
• Champion engineering best practices including documentation, version control, CI/CD, and software quality standards

About You

• Strong commercial experience developing embedded software in C and C++
• Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers within a small technical team or project environment
• Strong understanding of embedded systems architecture and full software development lifecycle practices
• Experience developing RTOS-based applications
• Hands-on experience with embedded communication protocols such as BLE, CAN, I2C, UART, or SPI
• Comfortable working across hardware/software boundaries, including debugging and system integration
• Experience using version control systems, particularly Git, within collaborative development environments
• A proactive technical problem-solver with strong analytical and root-cause investigation skills
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Desirable Skills

• Exposure to functional safety standards such as ISO 13849 or ISO 26262
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern development tooling (e.g. Jenkins, Docker)
• Familiarity with Python for automation, tooling, or test development
• Experience contributing to technical roadmaps, architectural strategy, or platform standardisation

Why Apply?

This is an excellent opportunity for a senior embedded engineer ready to step into a lead role — or an existing lead engineer looking for greater technical ownership and influence within an innovative engineering environment developing advanced electric products.

Apply today with an up-to-date CV

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