Junior Embedded Engineer

Location: Aberdeen (Hybrid Working)

Salary: Up to £40,000 DOE

The Role

Our client has created a new Junior Embedded Engineer position in their growing engineering team in the Aberdeen area. They design and develop industry-leading products used around the world.

They design a range of electronic instrumentation and measurement devices and are starting work on their next generation of products. You'll join a small, supportive team, mainly developing embedded firmware in C for the microcontrollers at the heart of these products. You'll get hands-on experience across the full design life cycle, from writing and debugging firmware to bringing up new hardware and testing it on the bench, learning alongside experienced engineers.

This is an excellent opportunity for a recent graduate or an engineer early in their career who enjoys working where hardware and software meet and wants real responsibility for the code that runs on real products.

You'll be confident programming in Embedded C on microcontrollers, whether from industry, a placement, university projects or your own personal projects, and comfortable working with peripherals and communication interfaces. Experience with ARM Cortex processors will make your application stand out.

This role will suit someone who is keen to learn, enjoys solving problems at a low level, and likes working in a small team while taking ownership of their own work and managing their time.

Skills & Experience Required

Degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science or a related subject

Embedded C programming on microcontrollers

Experience with communication protocols such as SPI, I2C, UART, RS232 and RS485

Understanding of microcontroller peripherals such as GPIO, timers, ADCs and interrupts

Ability to read schematics and understand basic analogue and digital circuits

Confident debugging firmware on target hardwareDesirable Skills & Experience

ARM Cortex-M processors (e.g. STM32, NXP)

Real-time operating systems such as FreeRTOS

Using test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analysers and multimeters

Version control with Git

Matlab or Python for test and data analysis

An industrial placement, graduate role or personal embedded projects (e.g. Arduino, STM32, Raspberry Pi Pico)What's on offer

Hands-on experience across the full product design life cycle

Mentoring and support from an experienced engineering team

The chance to write firmware for next-generation products used around the world

Hybrid working and a competitive benefits packageApply today with an up-to-date CV and a member of the KO2 team will be in touch to discuss