Embedded Systems Engineer - Unicorn Biotechnologies Ltd

Wanted:
Embedded Systems Engineer

Anticipated start date:
As soon as possible

Salary Band: £40k - £55k (depending on experience)

Full Time, On-site, Sheffield, UK

Do you want to utilise your engineering skills to make a real-world impact? We are developing a platform to help solve all disease, not just one area from cancer biology through to cardiological conditions and beyond.

AI Science and Autonomous Labs are buzzwords, we are actually building the necessary infrastructure, hardware and software tooling to enable scientists to design, execute and analyse experiments without human intervention. We already work with global biopharma companies and the most ambitious organisations you will have heard of.

We need an embedded systems engineer who helps us build both: the boards and the code that runs on them.

This is a role for someone who genuinely works across the full stack of embedded development; schematic capture and PCB layout one week, production firmware in C/C++ the next, field debugging a deployed system the week after. You'll take a design from concept through to manufactured, tested hardware running production firmware in a real lab.

If you've spent your career at a consultancy handing off designs you never see shipped, or at a large company owning one narrow slice of a system, this is your chance to own the whole thing.

• Engineers who care about what they build, not just how .
• Clear thinking, pragmatism, and sound judgment over buzzwords.
• A bias for action to build products with customer value.
• Friendly, organised, efficient, and enthusiastic people with a can-do attitude.
• People who take responsibility and follow through on problems.
• Using the right tools, including AI, to work both hard and smart.
• Low-ego individuals who love asking questions & go above and beyond to help the team succeed.

You’ll work alongside our principal engineer and the engineering team to design, test and manufacture the electronics and embedded systems across our products and platforms. Day-to-day, that means:

• Schematic design and PCB layout for control boards, sensor interfaces, power distribution, and system interconnects.
• Prototyping and validating designs in our in-house electronics workshop, driving rapid iteration from concept to working board.
• Design for manufacture: translating prototypes into production-ready boards, managing BOM optimisation, and coordinating with contract manufacturers.
• Writing and maintaining production firmware in C/C++ on STM
  32/ARM microcontrollers, real-time control of pumps, valves, sensors, and actuators.
• Designing and implementing inter-device communication (CAN, Ethernet, serial) across networked instruments.