Embedded Hardware Engineer
📌London, United Kingdom 🇬🇧
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
Join our fast-moving stealth startup as an Embedded Hardware Engineer working on next-generation wearable technologies. You’ll take ownership of the electronics stack for our core platform and play a key role in bringing complex embedded systems from prototype to production.
Your profile
Key Responsibilities
- Design and bring up embedded PCBs for electromechanical control systems (e.g. pumps, solenoids, pressure sensors).
- Develop and validate power systems, including battery integration, charging, PMICs, and power regulation.
- Drive component selection with attention to lifecycle status, sourcing risk, and BOM stability.
- Collaborate with mechanical and firmware teams on layout, signal integrity, and system interfaces.
- Interface with contract manufacturers to ensure DFM/DFA, support builds, and troubleshoot bring-up issues.
- Support low-level firmware interfaces (GPIO, I²C, SPI) for device control and sensor feedback.
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Conduct feasibility studies and support transition from R&D prototypes to manufacturable hardware.
- 5+ years in embedded hardware design, with at least 1–2 shipped commercial products.
- Strong experience with PCB layout and assembly for compact, mixed-signal systems.
- Deep understanding of battery-powered hardware: LiPo, PMICs, current sensing.
- Familiarity with Nordic (nRF) and Espressif (ESP32) platforms.
- Experience with electromechanical control: pumps, motors, solenoids, pressure sensors.
- Confident using oscilloscopes, logic analysers, current probes, and test equipment.
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Ability to debug and validate circuits across hardware and firmware boundaries.
- PCB design using Altium or KiCAD
- Microcontroller development: ARM Cortex, ESP32, PIC or similar
- Low-power system architecture and embedded power management
- BLE and wireless communications (Bluetooth Low Energy, Wi-Fi, etc.)
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Basic signal/data processing using MATLAB, Python, or similar
- Exposure to wearable, medical, or biometric devices
- Experience with rapid prototyping, flexible PCBs, and short-cycle iteration
- Familiarity with component lifecycle management and production transition workflows
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Familiarity with certification considerations such as battery safety (UN 38.3, IEC 62133), wireless approvals (CE/FCC), or basic medical device standards (e.g. ISO 13485) is a plus.
- Clear communicator with strong documentation and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Detail-oriented, self-directed, and comfortable operating autonomously
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Proven ability to manage multiple hardware subsystems and iterate under tight timelines
- Work at the core of a high-impact wearable product with real-world applications
- Help define the hardware stack of a stealth-stage company as an early team member
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Competitive early-stage benefits with strong opportunities for long-term growth
Send us your CV! If it looks like a good fit, we’ll reach out for an introductory call, followed by a more technical, in-depth discussion.
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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