Embedded Engineer
📌Johannesburg, South Africa 🇿🇦
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ mid-level
Recruiter:
Network Recruitment
Job Ref:
NES022407/KSE
Date posted:
Friday, July 25, 2025
Location:
Johannesburg, South Africa
SUMMARY:
Our client is a leading security program design company dedicated to ensuring the safety of all South Africans. They are committed to innovation, quality, and excellence in everything they do. As they continue to grow, they are looking for a talented Embedded Engineer to join their team and contribute to their exciting projects.
POSITION INFO:
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Embedded Engineer with expertise in PCB design and C++ programming to join our engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and testing embedded systems for tracking devices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project requirements and specifications.
- Design and develop embedded systems and PCB layouts.
- Write, debug, and maintain C++ code for embedded applications.
- Conduct hardware and software integration and testing.
- Troubleshoot and resolve hardware and software issues.
- Optimize system performance and efficiency.
- Keep up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies.
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Document design specifications, test procedures, and project progress.
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field. Master's Degree is a plus.
- Proven experience in embedded system design and development.
- Proficiency in PCB design tools such as Altium Designer or Eagle.
- Strong programming skills in C++ for embedded systems.
- Familiarity with microcontrollers and microprocessors (e.g., ARM, PIC, and Atmel).
- Experience with communication protocols (e.g., UART, SPI, and I2C).
- Knowledge of hardware debugging tools and techniques.
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
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Attention to detail and a commitment to quality.
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For more information contact:
Kagiso Sebalo
Recruitment Consultant
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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