Senior Embedded Software Engineer (Linux)

Position Overview

We are seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to design, develop, integrate, test, and improve reliable software for embedded and connected products. The role combines strong C/C++ and real-time systems expertise with sound architecture, hardware-software integration, cybersecurity, automation, and product-engineering practices. You will work with systems, hardware, application, platform, quality, cybersecurity, manufacturing, and product teams to translate complex requirements into robust, testable, maintainable, and production-ready software.

Responsibilities

Embedded Software Design and Development

• Translate product, system, and hardware requirements into embedded software architecture, interfaces, designs, implementation plans, and acceptance criteria.

• Design, develop, test, and maintain firmware, device drivers, board-support software, middleware, hardware-abstraction layers, and real-time applications.

• Develop software for microcontrollers, processors, embedded Linux, real-time operating systems, or bare-metal environments.

• Implement and optimise communication protocols, data acquisition, control logic, diagnostics, state management, and device-management functions.

• Apply modular design, object-oriented or component-based practices, design patterns, coding standards, and reusable engineering approaches.

Hardware-Software Integration and System Performance

• Integrate processors, microcontrollers, sensors, actuators, communication modules, storage devices, and other hardware components.

• Perform board bring-up, interface verification, hardware-software integration, fault isolation, and system debugging using appropriate engineering tools.

• Analyse and improve timing, concurrency, memory usage, startup behaviour, power consumption, reliability, throughput, and overall system performance.

• Support system integration across embedded devices, backend services, applications, APIs, messaging technologies, and external interfaces.

• Document interfaces, timing assumptions, resource budgets, error handling, operating limits, and technical decisions.

Verification, Automation and Product Quality

• Develop unit, integration, regression, system, simulation, software-in-the-loop, and hardware-in-the-loop tests appropriate to the product.

• Build or improve automated test harnesses, manufacturing diagnostics, static analysis, code-quality checks, and continuous-integration workflows.

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Systems Engineers, Developers, and QA/Test Engineers to refine requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and test coverage.

• Investigate defects and production issues, perform root-cause analysis, implement corrective actions, and verify closure.

• Prepare design documentation, interface specifications, test evidence, release notes, runbooks, and product handover materials.

Secure Delivery and Lifecycle Support

• Apply secure coding, least-privilege, secrets protection, secure communications, software-update, logging, and vulnerability-management practices.

• Support build, release, configuration, versioning, traceability, deployment, rollback, and maintenance processes for embedded software.

• Contribute to risk assessments, design reviews, production-readiness reviews, and quality or cybersecurity assurance activities.

• Support product industrialisation, manufacturing integration, field diagnostics, lifecycle maintenance, and continual improvement.

• Balance performance, reliability, security, cost, schedule, maintainability, and hardware constraints when making technical decisions.

Technical Leadership and Collaboration

• Lead technical design and code reviews, establish engineering standards, and improve team practices for quality, maintainability, security, and reuse.

• Mentor engineers, share knowledge, and help resolve complex software, integration, and debugging challenges.

• Communicate technical trade-offs, risks, dependencies, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Work effectively in Agile, Scrum, or hybrid delivery teams and collaborate across locations and disciplines.

• Stay current with embedded architectures, real-time software, developer tooling, cybersecurity, automation, and relevant engineering practices.

Requirements

Experience and Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical or Electronic Engineering, Robotics, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

• At least 5 years of relevant professional experience developing embedded, firmware, real-time, device, or systems software.

• Demonstrated ownership of embedded software across design, implementation, integration, verification, release, and lifecycle support.

• Experience mentoring engineers, leading technical reviews, or driving engineering practices within a product or delivery team.

Technical Skills

• Strong proficiency in C and C++, including data structures, concurrency, memory management, debugging, and software design.

• Hands-on experience with microcontrollers or embedded processors and at least one of embedded Linux, a real-time operating system, or bare-metal development.

• Experience with hardware interfaces and protocols such as UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, USB, Ethernet, or equivalent technologies.

• Experience using debuggers, oscilloscopes, logic analysers, trace tools, profilers, build systems, Git, and automated test tools.

• Understanding of boot sequences, interrupts, scheduling, inter-process communication, error handling, and resource-constrained design.

• Experience with unit testing, code review, static analysis, continuous integration, configuration management, and release practices.

• Ability to translate system and hardware requirements into reliable, testable, secure, and maintainable software.

Key Competencies

• Strong analytical thinking and structured problem-solving skills.

• Excellent attention to detail and a disciplined approach to engineering quality.

• Strong ownership, sound technical judgement, and the ability to work independently in an evolving environment.

• Clear written and verbal communication and effective stakeholder collaboration.

• A pragmatic mindset that balances technical excellence with delivery feasibility, product risk, and business outcomes.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience developing device drivers, board-support packages, bootloaders, Linux kernel modules, middleware, or real-time control software.

• Experience with CMake, Make, Yocto, Buildroot, cross-compilation, package repositories, Docker, or equivalent build and development tooling.

• Experience with messaging and integration technologies such as MQTT, AMQP, Kafka, or equivalent protocols.

• Knowledge of secure boot, cryptography, over-the-air updates, identity, vulnerability management, or embedded cybersecurity.

• Experience with simulation, software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, manufacturing tests, performance profiling, or field diagnostics.

• Familiarity with functional safety, reliability engineering, regulated product development, or formal software-development standards.

• Relevant professional certifications in embedded systems, cloud, cybersecurity, Agile, Scrum, or software architecture.

What We Offer

• Meaningful work on modern embedded and connected products with real users and measurable outcomes.

• Opportunities to work across the full product lifecycle, from architecture and prototyping to production and continual improvement.

• Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams across hardware, systems, software, data, platform, cybersecurity, quality, manufacturing, and product disciplines.

• Ownership of embedded architecture, reusable engineering patterns, technical delivery, and opportunities to mentor others.

• A professional and collaborative environment that supports learning, responsible innovation, and career development.

Why choose ST Engineering:

• 14 days Annual leaves + 3 Sick leaves

• Private Health Insurance

• Annual Salary Review

• Performance Bonus

• 100% salary in probation period

• Free LinkedIn Learning Account

• Company Events & Team Building