Software Engineers
📌Bristol, United Kingdom 🇬🇧
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ mid-level
hybrid
The Opportunity
Are you an embedded Ada software engineer eager to work on cutting-edge engineering projects? Do you want to make an impact in a dynamic team environment where your skills and experience are truly valued?
At Leonardo , we are looking for talented engineers to join our growing Bristol team. Here, you’ll have the chance to shape world-class defence solutions, all while enjoying a supportive and flexible work environment that prioritises your work-life balance.
Why Join Us?
- Work-Life Balance Enjoy the flexibility of on-site work with options tailored to your lifestyle, supported by a team that values balance as much as productivity.
- Career Growth Be part of an organisation that invests in your professional development, offering numerous opportunities to advance and support others along the way.
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Innovative Projects Lead and contribute to multidisciplinary teams at the forefront of defence engineering, delivering solutions that make a difference.
- High-Quality Code Deliver top-tier software, ensuring reliability and excellence in every line.
- Collaborative Solutions Work closely with hardware, firmware, and systems teams to develop and refine technical solutions.
- Continuous Learning Thrive in a nurturing environment where you’ll have the opportunity to learn, grow, and share your knowledge.
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Leadership Guide and influence development approaches, focusing on design principles, modularity, reuse, and best practices.
While we value specific technical skills, we prioritise behaviours and experience that demonstrate leadership, collaboration, and innovation. Here’s a glimpse of what we’re looking for
- Leadership Ability to lead, motivate, and inspire others.
- Technical Expertise Experience with Ada, hands-on integration, object-oriented programming, and requirements engineering.
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Desirable Skills Familiarity with Linux/VXWorks and high-integrity software standards (e.g., RTCA-DO178C or similar).
- Flexible working We offer our employees the time and flexibility they need to enjoy a balanced life through flexible hours and part time options
- Flexible benefits Our company-funded approach to flexible benefits allows employees to make choices appropriate for them. Each employee has access to a wide choice of lifestyle, health and wellbeing options best suited to their individual lifestyle goals.
- Annual leave We offer 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and 12 flexi days
- Network groups To demonstrate our ongoing commitment to diversity & inclusion we have network groups for
- Carers (employees who care for someone who is either older, disabled or seriously ill)
- Enable (supporting people with disabilities)
- Equalise (development of a gender balanced workforce)
- Pride (promoting equality for all LGBTQ+ individuals)
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We also work in partnership with AFBE (Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers).
Security Clearance
You must be eligible for full security clearance. For more information and guidance, please visit -
https //www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels
Primary Location
GB - Bristol Building
Contract Type
Hybrid Working
Onsite
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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