Senior Embedded Software Engineer

QinetiQ
📍 Ashford, England, United Kingdom 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted May 28, 2026

Job Description

The Role

As a Senior Embedded Software Engineer, you will take ownership of embedded software development across a range of complex products, working from initial requirements through to implementation, testing and in‑service support. You will play a senior technical role within project teams, contributing to design decisions, supporting more junior engineers and helping to modernise legacy systems using more contemporary approaches.

Day-to-day, you’ll work on full‑lifecycle embedded software development, primarily focused on real‑time, safety‑critical systems written in C and running on bare‑metal and RTOS‑based platforms.


Your responsibilities will include:

  • Designing, implementing and testing embedded software from requirements through to production release

  • Working across new development and maintenance of existing products, including system upgrades and modernisation

  • Producing and maintaining high‑quality technical do...
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    Job Details

    • Location Ashford, England
    • Job Type Full-time
    • Category Computer Occupations
    • Posted Date May 28, 2026
    • Application Deadline July 07, 2026