Associate Engineering Manager- Embedded Product

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• 07-Nov-2026

An Amazing Career Opportunity for a Associate Engineering Manager
- Embedded Product!

Location: Cardiff, UK

Job

As Associate Engineering Manager – Embedded Product, you will lead a dedicated Agile team of embedded engineers in our Cardiff design centre, delivering the next-generation of Enterprise desktop and embedded readers for IDT. This new generation of readers will be based on a common and new product platform developed with HID PACS. This is ground-up engineering: the architecture decisions made now will define the reader portfolio for years.

This is a deliberately hands-on leadership role. You will lead the team — line management, technical direction, Scrum Master duties and stakeholder alignment — while staying close enough to the engineering work to make credible technical calls and to review your team's output with authority.

Your team will sit inside the PACS engineering organisation, which leads development of the common platform, while reporting into IDT Engineering. The team is newly formed, and building it is part of the role: you will recruit, onboard and develop its engineers.

The team will own the incremental features required for IDT's desktop and embedded readers, built on core technology developed by PACS. Reuse and harmonisation will hence be central to this model: platform capabilities are adopted where they exist, and genuine IDT-specific needs are met by extending the platform rather than diverging from it. Close collaboration with PACS engineering is therefore essential to the role.

The platform is built on ARM Cortex-M silicon running Zephyr RTOS, with security anchored in a Secure Element. Your team will own any specificities on the reader side, including applied cryptography and Secure Element integration, guaranteeing clear interface ownership and disciplined cross-organisation collaboration.

The role suits either an established team lead or a strong senior embedded engineer ready to step up; we will provide mentoring, coaching, and training to support the successful candidate. You will report to the Ecosystem Integration Engineering Manager, IDT.

Who are we?

HID powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places, and things, allowing people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely.

IDT is creating trusted identities for IoT applications through Smart Components and Enabling Services.

IDT’s Identification Technologies powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places and things through smart components and cloud services. We make it possible for people and organizations to transact safely, work productively, and travel freely. Our contactless identification and sensing (RFID, NFC, and BLE) components and solution enabling technologies address the dynamic requirements across multiple industries to wirelessly connect, identify, collect and manage data quickly and accurately across virtually any IoT application.

As our Associate Engineering Manager
- Embedded Product , you’ll support HID’s successby:

Technical Leadership and Contribution

• Contribute directly and hands-on alongside your engineers — design, implementation, review and debugging of production reader technology on ARM Cortex-M under Zephyr RTOS.
• Drive multi-faceted technical issues to closure across software, hardware and Secure Element boundaries, including lab-based debugging and hardware bring-up support.
• Conduct design and code reviews, hold the team to the platform's coding standards, and raise the technical bar through example.

Team Leadership and People Management

• Build and lead the team from the ground up: recruitment,…