Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Enterprise Recruitment Ltd · Cambridge, England ·
Last confirmed by our partners on 23 Oct 2026.
Are you an ambitious Embedded Software Engineer, excited by the proposition of joining the fastest growing company in Europe? The business has lots of capital, pays excellent salaries and is offering equity to joiners in 2026. They are at an exciting stage of growth and looking for 3 hands-on Embedded Software Engineers to design and build the real-time systems powering their first-generation hardware.
These are office-based embedded software roles (Central Cambridge, walking distance from the station) with a clear progression path and the opportunity to carve out a niche.
This opportunity is both rare and exceptional in today’s market. That said, expectations are high.
Senior Embedded software engineer requirements:
- 3-15 years embedded C (C++ and Rust are also interesting)
- Excellent academic background with degree from a top university
- Knowledge of real-time and low-level development (RTOS/bare-metal)
- Proactive, collaborative mindset with ownership of projects
This is a rare chance to make an immediate impact, stay hands-on with development, and help shape the software function of a company that’s scaling fast.
Position: Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Location: Cambridge
Salary: £60-120k
Key Skills: embedded C, RTOS, bare-metal
Desirable skills: Rust, C++, Embedded Linux, Yocto, OpenAMP, STM32, AMD/Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+
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