IT & Software

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

X4 Life Sciences

Southampton · England · United Kingdom

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Salary: $68 – $83 per year

Senior Embedded Software Engineer | Hybrid Southampton (2 days per week WFH) | Up to £75,000

A globally leading client has an opportunity for an experienced Embedded Software Engineer to join an innovative engineering team developing cutting-edge embedded software for high-reliability systems.

This is a hybrid working position with three days per week required onsite at the Southampton based innovation center. What makes this position unique is because the client have soo much work across the embedded stack (from low level C code to multi-threaded higher level OS based C++), they can tailor the work and position to you!

Salary: Up to £75,000 (with industry leading benefits - 7% pension, Bupa, Shares, 1 day holiday increase per year)

You'll be working on:

  • Developing and maintaining embedded software in C/C++
  • Designing, testing, and integrating software for complex embedded systems
  • Working across the full software development lifecycle
  • Collaborating with hardware, FPGA, and systems engineering teams
  • Building robust, high-performance software for advanced engineering applications

We're looking for engineers with experience in:

Embedded Software Development

C++ and Linux environments

Object-Oriented Design (OOD), SOLID principles, and design patterns

Unit testing and modern software development practices

Communication protocols such as CAN, RS232/RS422, UDP, TCP/IP OR equivalent

Due to security access you must have been in the U.K. for at least five years

Desirable experience includes:

MATLAB/Simulink

OpenGL or Vulkan

CUDA or OpenCL

FPGA or HDL exposure

Video processing or machine learning

Experience within defence, aerospace, automotive, or other high-reliability industries

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Reference: WJ-766_24248414 · Posted 11 Nov 2026, 06:51 PM

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