Embedded Engineer
Summary
An embedded engineer joins an oil & gas technology R&D team in Aberdeen or Edinburgh to develop downhole and surface tools across the full lifecycle, from concept and design through coding, testing, and field deployment. Core work is embedded C/C++ firmware for microcontrollers, with a focus on low power consumption and safe failure modes.
Salary: £40,000 - 70,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong experience writing embedded C
- Solid understanding of the specific challenges and constraints of coding for microcontrollers
- Working knowledge of digital electronics, with some exposure to analogue electronics an advantage
- Familiarity with sound software design principles and practices
- Strong mathematical ability, with experience designing custom algorithms
- A lateral thinker who enjoys finding unconventional solutions to tricky design problems
- Good communication skills and a genuine team player
- Join our expanding R&D team responsible for the full development lifecycle of downhole and surface tools, from initial concept and design through coding and testing to field deployment
- Work closely with our electronics and mechanical teams, shaping design decisions early rather than just coding to a fixed specification
- Help minimise power consumption and design safe failure modes so faults degrade gracefully
- Build on our established suite of tools rather than starting from scratch
- Find innovative solutions where no off-the-shelf answer exists
- Take real ownership of projects, with support and mentoring from experienced colleagues
- Contribute to firmware architecture and mentoring others, depending on experience
- Embedded
- Firmware
- Support
- Sketch
- C++
More:
We are a leading global oil and gas technology company with a strong family-business culture and a presence across the UK, the Middle East, the US and beyond. We offer a salary of up to £70,000 depending on experience, 33 days of holiday rising with long service, long-service awards, private healthcare, life insurance, strong company pension contributions, and a culture built on teamwork and empowering engineers to make a difference. The role is based in Aberdeen or Edinburgh with a four-day office and one-day remote working pattern each week. This is a chance to join a market-leading name in downhole technology and work on cutting-edge embedded systems in a supportive, development-focused environment, with genuine ownership from first sketch to field deployment.
last updated 37 week of 2026