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# Principal Embedded Software Engineer

- **Company:** Kings Hedges
- **Location:** Cambridge, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Board Bringup, Automation of Tests, Code Coverage, Profiling, Software Quality, Software Debugging, Device Drivers, Embedded C, Linux on Embedded Systems, Embedded Software, Real-Time Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Multithreading, Real Time Systems, Integration Tests, Bare Metal, Hardware Debugging
- **Published:** May 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.apply4u.co.uk/jobs/x/37699794/

## About the Role

* 8+ years' embedded C development experience delivering commercially released real-time embedded products.

 * Strong expertise in low-level device drivers, Embedded Linux driver architecture and ARM-based platforms/BSPs.

 * Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills within multi-processor, multi-threaded embedded systems.

 * Experience working across the full software development lifecycle including design, testing and integration.

Bonus Skills:

 * Experience within telecommunications, wireless communications or mobile embedded products.

 * Familiarity with hardware debugging tools including oscilloscopes and logic analysers.

 * Experience with automated testing, profiling, code coverage and memory analysis tools.

 * Knowledge of Agile / Scrum development environments and modern software quality processes.

## Description

* Architecting, developing and debugging low-level embedded software and device drivers across Embedded Linux, RTOS and bare-metal platforms.

 * Leading platform software activities, including software design, task planning, integration testing and technical reviews.

 * Investigating and resolving complex real-time system issues across multi-threaded, event-driven embedded systems.

 * Collaborating closely with hardware teams during board bring-up, system integration and product development.

 * Driving technical standards and mentoring engineers across the embedded software team.


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