Firmware Engineer

Salary range: £40,000-75,000

* We are accepting applications from varying seniority levels, from Graduate to Principal Engineer, and will adjust terms accordingly.

About Amodo

Amodo is a hardware engineering company building the 21st century's most important technologies. Our team of mechanical, electronic, firmware, and software engineers works with world-leading startups, universities, governments, and philanthropists to solve pressing technical challenges. We believe in differential technology development: deliberately accelerating safety-enhancing technologies to ensure human flourishing.

What do we do?

At Amodo you will work with a world class team to create some of the most important technologies of our time. We focus on high speed development and real world impact, making sure we’re continually delivering tangible, concrete progress across the board. You will see your designs manufactured and distributed globally, your research inform policy, and you will support multi-million pound projects.

• New invention & new research - We design and build new products, equipment, and tools. Invention and rapid iteration are core to our DNA. We use these new inventions and our experience to perform new research and push boundaries.

• More products than powerpoints - Common failure modes of today’s consultancies include risk aversion, theatre for clients, and misrepresentation of what is important in projects. We reject this approach. We’re here to do truth-seeking, progress-optimising engineering, not to make slide decks.

• Work that matters - Unlike many consultancies we also get involved at the pre-product stage. Our experience in industry and biotech puts us in the position to run feasibility studies for new and existing companies. This research-heavy work can include literature reviews, feasibility modelling and market research.

About you

We value drive, culture fit, and a track-record of engineering excellence and above all else, but the below competencies, interests, and attributes are extremely desirable:

• Strong background in embedded software development
• Strong experience writing and deploying production firmware for Microprocessors
• FPGA experience
• Excellent grasp of programming best practice

Alongside the above, the below competencies will strengthen an application:

• Experienced and enthusiastic in using LLM tools to speed up workflows (e.g claude code)
• Experience with electromechanical systems, control loops and kinematics
• Strong understanding of electronics design and manufacture

Benefits:

• Free lunch every day
• Flexible remote working
• Flexible working hours
• 35 days holiday (incl bank holidays)
• We can pay your professional registration and institution fees
• Relocation assistance may be negotiated
• £300 annual personal project budget with weekly maker evenings (tools, pizza and support provided)