Job Description:

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Location: Norwich, Norfolk
Salary: Competitive + Benefits

About the Opportunity

KO2's client, an innovative engineering company developing advanced systems, is seeking an experienced Senior Embedded Software Engineer to join its growing team in Norwich.

This is an excellent opportunity to play a leading role in the development of next-generation technologies, working on complex embedded software solutions. The successful candidate will take ownership of software architecture, development, integration, and validation activities while providing technical leadership within a multidisciplinary engineering environment.

Working closely with systems, controls, hardware, and test engineers, you will help deliver robust, high-quality software solutions and contribute to the future direction of cutting-edge products.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, develop, and maintain robust software architectures aligned with system and product requirements.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to software engineers, promoting engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
• Drive software development processes, tools, methodologies, and ASPICE-aligned practices.
• Manage the complete software development lifecycle, from requirements capture through implementation, verification, validation, and release.
• Plan and deliver software milestones, ensuring effective documentation, progress tracking, risk management, and change control.
• Develop high-quality embedded software using model-based design, auto-code generation, and manual coding techniques where appropriate.
• Support the development and optimisation of control algorithms to meet performance, safety, reliability, and quality objectives.
• Lead software integration activities across embedded hardware platforms and system architectures.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams to define interfaces, requirements, and integration strategies.
• Support prototype development, system integration, and validation activities including bench testing, Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL), and dynamometer testing.
• Perform root cause analysis and contribute to effective problem resolution and corrective actions.
• Define and oversee software verification and validation strategies, ensuring full traceability between requirements, implementation, and testing.
• Conduct software design and code reviews, ensuring compliance with quality and coding standards.
• Champion continuous improvement in development tools, automated testing, continuous integration, configuration management, and software processes.
• Support compliance with relevant safety, quality, and regulatory standards.
• Contribute to future product development and innovation within electric drive technologies.

About You

You will be an accomplished embedded software engineer with a strong background in real-time control systems and electrified powertrain technologies. You will enjoy solving complex technical challenges and have experience leading software development activities within multidisciplinary engineering environments.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong experience developing embedded software for electric drive systems and real-time control applications.
• Expertise in motor control algorithms, inverter control, DC-DC converter control, diagnostics, and embedded application software.
• Proven experience defining software architectures and leading software development projects.
• Strong knowledge of the complete software lifecycle, including requirements management, design, implementation, verification, validation, release, and configuration management.
• Experience leading and mentoring engineering teams while delivering high-quality software solutions.
• Knowledge of software verification and validation techniques, including unit testing, integration testing, HIL testing, and system-level validation.
• Excellent collaboration skills with systems, hardware, controls, and test engineering teams.
• Familiarity with industry standards and best practices including:
• ISO 26262
• MISRA C
• ASPICE
• Functional Safety principles

What's on Offer?

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge electric drive and electrification technology.
• A key technical role with significant influence over product development and software strategy.
• Collaborative engineering environment with strong opportunities for career progression.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• The chance to contribute to innovative products that are helping shape the future of electrified systems.

To find out more or apply for this opportunity, please contact KO2 Recruitment.