Holt Executive Ltd
Principal Embedded Engineer
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Principal Embedded Engineer
An established engineering organisation is looking for a Principal Embedded Engineer to provide technical leadership and help shape the development of its embedded software and firmware capability.
This is a senior technical leadership position combining hands-on embedded engineering with strategic direction, giving you the opportunity to establish engineering processes, develop technical capability, mentor engineers, and provide technical authority across a range of complex embedded systems.
You will lead the development and growth of an embedded engineering capability spanning microcontrollers, SoCs, FPGAs, embedded software and firmware.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing technical leadership, governance and oversight across embedded development activities
- Establishing and improving engineering processes, workflows and best practices
- Leading the development of reusable software modules and libraries
- Planning and delivering embedded software and firmware work packages
- Translating system and customer requirements into clear software and firmware specifications
- Developing system and software architectures and overseeing detailed design
- Defining verification strategies, validation plans and test procedures
- Ensuring traceability between requirements, design and verification
- Producing high-quality technical documentation and engineering reports
- Ensuring deliverables meet required quality, compliance and safety standards
- Supporting estimates, bids, proposals and engineering change activities
- Working closely with hardware, software and systems engineering teams
- Supporting the integration of embedded software and hardware platforms
- Mentoring and developing engineers across different levels of experience
- Supporting recruitment, onboarding and the management of internal engineers and specialist contractors
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Required Experience & Skills
- HNC/HND or degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- Extensive experience working with microcontrollers, SoCs, FPGA-based systems and embedded software
- Strong embedded C/C++ development experience
- Experience defining and implementing engineering processes
- Ability to develop specifications, architectures, verification strategies and test procedures
- Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring engineers
- Strong understanding of current embedded, microcontroller, SoC and FPGA technologies
- Ability to make appropriate technology selections based on requirements, risk, cost and timescales
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Desirable Experience
- Hardware Description Languages, particularly VHDL
- FPGA simulation and verification tools
- Experience delivering safety-related systems or working to standards such as SIL or ASIL
- Experience working across both hardware and embedded software development
- Experience developing reusable engineering frameworks, libraries or platforms
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced embedded engineer to take a significant technical leadership position, helping to shape embedded engineering capability, processes and technical direction while remaining closely involved in the development of complex embedded systems.
Due to the nature of the projects involved, the successful candidate must be eligible to obtain and maintain UK Security Clearance at SC level.
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