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# Firmware Engineer

- **Company:** Platform Recruitment
- **Location:** Cambridge, UK
- **Salary:** £45,000.0 - £65,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C++ (Programming Language), Code Review, Embedded Software, Firmware, Software Architecture, Real-Time Operating Systems, Signal Processing, Software Engineering, Software Organization, PIC Microcontroller, Bare Metal, Software Version Control
- **Published:** August 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2941265167-2

## About the Role

Essential

 * Commercial experience developing embedded software in C/C++.

 * Experience working within bare-metal and/or RTOS-based embedded

environments.

 * Strong understanding of microcontroller-based systems and embedded

architectures.

 * Comfortable working in a fast-paced start-up environment

 * Familiarity with software development best practices including version control

and code reviews.

Desirable

 * Hobbyist engineer with complex software/hardware projects completed in own

time

 * Exposure to signal processing, sensing systems, radar technology, or UAV

## Description

* Design, develop, and maintain embedded software in C/C++

 * Develop software for STM32s operating in bare-metal and RTOS environments.

 * Investigate and resolve complex software and system-level issues.

 * Contribute to the software architecture of new advanced sensing systems


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