About the role

Why you would like it:

• Permanent role building real-world automation products 
• Hamilton-based with hybrid working 
• Senior-level scope: new platform work + legacy improvement 
• Strong cross-functional collaboration (hardware, cloud, mobile, web) 

The opportunity:

This is a hands-on senior embedded role where your firmware will directly power industrial automation in the field. You’ll design, build, and maintain production-ready embedded firmware that’s reliable, scalable, secure, and well-tested — while also helping shape the next generation of the platform.

You’ll work closely with wider product teams to deliver end-to-end solutions: from sensing and control through to stable communications and clean data flowing into dashboards and cloud services. It’s a role for someone who enjoys pragmatic engineering, can move between legacy remediation and new development, and can lift the capability of the team through strong technical leadership.

Company profile:

A product-led organisation in the industrial automation space, building integrated hardware/software systems used in real operational environments. The culture is practical, collaborative, and improvement-focused, with a clear emphasis on quality, safety, and delivering reliable outcomes.

The role:

• Design, develop, and maintain embedded firmware using C and Java 
• Build firmware for sensing, control, automation logic, and communications 
• Implement/optimise protocols: CAN, RS485, TCP/IP, BLE, Ethernet 
• Contribute to embedded platform architecture and future technology choices 
• Diagnose and improve reliability and performance of existing products 
• Participate in testing, validation, debugging, and documentation 
• Collaborate across hardware, mechanical, cloud, web, and mobile teams 
• Mentor others via code reviews and technical guidance 
• Support manufacturing and field/technical support when needed 

Your fit:

• 7+ years embedded firmware development experience 
• Strong skills in C and Java in embedded/real-time environments 
• Solid experience with embedded toolchains and electronics fundamentals 
• Comfortable with industrial comms and integration with HMIs/automation systems 
• Exposure to products integrated with cloud/web/mobile applications 
• Clear communicator, pragmatic problem-solver, and team-first collaborator 
• Comfortable balancing legacy uplift and new product development 
• Quality mindset: testing, documentation, and production readiness matter to you 

Interested?

If this sounds like the kind of embedded role you’d like to own end-to-end, apply now and we’ll talk through the product, team, and hybrid setup.

REF: 19536