Industries
Embedded Systems & Electronics
Hardware, firmware and the engineers who work across both.
The hiring challenge
What makes this sector difficult.
Embedded hiring is difficult because the roles are genuinely hybrid. An embedded engineer sits between hardware and software, and the specific combination that matters — this RTOS, that processor family, this protocol stack — varies so much between organisations that title-based searching produces almost nothing useful.
Add the constraint that much of this work is regulated, safety-critical or long-lifecycle, and the pool of people with the exact relevant experience narrows sharply.
Roles we recruit
The role index for this sector.
Not an exhaustive list — a representative one. If your role isn't here, it's still worth a conversation.
- Embedded Software Engineer
- Firmware Engineer
- Device Driver Developer
- RTOS Engineer
- Embedded Linux Engineer
- Bootloader Engineer
- Middleware Developer
- Hardware Design Engineer
- PCB Design Engineer
- Board Bring-Up Engineer
- Analog Hardware Engineer
- Power Electronics Engineer
- Hardware Validation Engineer
- EMI/EMC Engineer
- Embedded Systems Architect
- Systems Engineer
- Integration & Test Engineer
- Product Validation Engineer
- Embedded Engineering Manager
- Hardware Engineering Manager
- Head of Product Engineering
Sub-domains we cover
Our approach
How we hire in this sector.
We screen on the stack, not the title. Two engineers with identical designations can have entirely non-overlapping capability, and establishing which one fits is a technical conversation, not a keyword match.
We also work realistically with candidates from adjacent domains where the transferable core is genuinely strong — which widens a narrow pool without lowering the bar.
Services most used by this sector
How organisations here engage us.
Permanent Recruitment
Specialist and niche technical hiring across engineering functions
ExploreContract & Project Staffing
Deployed contract talent for ramp-ups, projects and flexible capacity
ExploreExecutive Search
Leadership and business-critical appointments, run as a retained search
ExploreTalent Intelligence
Market mapping, compensation benchmarking and workforce insight
ExploreLive roles
Current openings in this sector.
No live roles listed right now
Most of the roles we work on are never advertised. Send us your CV and we'll be in touch when something matches your profile.
Let's talk about the team you're building.
Tell us the role, the constraint and the timeline. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right firm for it — and if we're not, we'll say so.