Senior Robotics Software Engineer
📌Devon, United Kingdom 🇬🇧
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
on-site
Your mission
As a Robotics Engineer with a focus on embedded perception systems, you will play a critical role in enabling real-time autonomy onboard next-generation platforms. You will work directly with camera data pipelines, ROS2-based systems, and embedded compute platforms to build robust, efficient, and scalable perception and control functionality.
You will contribute as a highly skilled individual contributor—hands-on with the system—bridging diverse codebases and enabling data flows across native ROS2 nodes, legacy frameworks, and containerized third-party modules. Your work will be essential to ensuring that our autonomous systems operate reliably in real-world, resource-constrained environments.
Responsibilities
- Develop and integrate real-time perception pipelines and control loop software on embedded platforms such as the Jetson Nano NX
- Migrate legacy monolithic systems to ROS2, refactoring and modularizing components for better scalability and maintainability.
- Enable and optimise image data access across native and containerized components (e.g., Dockerized ROS2 processes).
- Design and implement low-level camera and sensor drivers for real-time vision acquisition.
- Collaborate with AI, controls, and hardware teams to ensure tight integration between perception and other onboard subsystems.
- Profile and debug system performance under embedded constraints (compute, thermal, bandwidth), ensuring stability and robustness in field deployments.
- Contribute to system-level architecture discussions with a focus on communication reliability and modularity.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field.
- Strong experience with ROS2, including real-world deployment and integration of perception modules.
- Proficient in Python and C++ for embedded and robotics development.
- Solid background in robotics, autonomous systems, embedded development, or aerospace applications.
- Familiarity with embedded Linux platforms, particularly NVIDIA Jetson devices.
- Experience integrating containerized processes (e.g., Docker) into onboard robotic systems.
- Ability to navigate and coordinate between different frameworks (ROS2, legacy/custom codebases, third-party modules).
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, especially in real-time or resource-constrained environments.
- Effective communicator and team player in multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Self-driven, organized, and adaptable to fast-paced development cycles.
- Willingness to travel occasionally for field testing and deployment.
- Ability to travel regularly to the Devon and Dorset Area at least 2 days a week
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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