Senior Firmware Engineer

Senior Firmware Engineer

Salary:
Up to £70,000 DOE + Benefits

Location:

Nottingham

KO2's client is looking to add an experienced Senior Firmware Engineer to their growing engineering team. This is a technically focused senior role, offering a strong balance of hands-on embedded development (around 70%) alongside technical leadership (around 30%).

This opportunity suits an engineer who enjoys staying close to the code while also influencing architecture, project delivery, and technical direction.

You'll be working on the development of embedded firmware across a range of platforms, contributing to system architecture, guiding project approach, and ensuring high standards of delivery. While this isn't a purely managerial position, it does include responsibility for technical leadership, mentoring, and some line management.

Responsibilities

Hands-on development of embedded firmware using C
Working across bare-metal, RTOS, and embedded Linux environments
Contributing to and owning aspects of software system architecture
Setting technical direction, standards, and best practice
Supporting project estimation, planning, and delivery approach
Monitoring progress to ensure work is delivered to the required quality, time, and budget
Providing technical leadership and mentoring to engineers
Conducting 1-to-1s and line management where required
Collaborating with hardware, systems, and wider engineering teams

Experience Required

Strong commercial experience in embedded C / firmware development
Background working on bare-metal, RTOS, and Linux-based systems
Experience contributing to firmware or software architecture
Comfortable balancing hands-on development with leadership responsibilities
Able to estimate work and support technical project delivery
Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset

What's on Offer

Salary up to £70k DOE
A senior technical role with genuine influence
A strong mix of coding and leadership
Opportunity to work on complex embedded systems within a growing team

If you're a Senior Firmware Engineer looking for a role that still values deep technical contribution alongside leadership, please apply or contact KO2 for more information