About TTP
TTP is an employee-owned technology and product development consultancy, with a 40-year track record of helping ambitious clients solve complex technical challenges and bring innovative, commercially successful solutions to market.
We invent, design, and manufacture impactful products and technologies across a wide range of industries – including healthcare, life science, energy, and communications – and at the intersection of biology, physical science and engineering.
Our working culture encourages entrepreneurship, shared ideas and technical collaboration, while providing you with the freedom to do your best work.
Job DescriptionThe Opportunity
As an Embedded Software Engineer at TTP, you will develop solutions that make a real impact - whether in connected medical devices, safety-critical radio systems, industrial automation, or satellite payloads. Projects range from rapid prototypes to multi-year developments.
You’ll work across the full development lifecycle: from analysis and system architecture to implementation and testing. With the freedom to select the best tools for each challenge, you’ll combine depth in embedded software engineering with the agility to pick up new ideas and collaborate across disciplines.
You’ll play a key role in ambitious projects, sometimes leading them, balancing the uncertainties of R&D with time and budget constraints. Collaboration is at the heart of our approach - you’ll work in multi-disciplinary teams where every member’s insight shapes the outcome.
You’ll also grow strong client relationships, developing a deep understanding of their needs and vision, and ensuring their confidence throughout the delivery of complex technology projects.
What You’ll Bring
The essential requirements for this role are:
- A bachelor’s degree in Electronics & Software, Computer Science, or a related discipline
- High proficiency in embedded C
- Knowledge of microcontroller architecture and typical features
- Experience with SPI, I2C, and UART/RS232
- Ability to lead the delivery of technical solutions and provide direction to a small team of developers
- Commercial awareness, with the ability to oversee budgets and balance cost, time, and quality
Highly desirable qualities for this role include:
- Experience using microcontroller debuggers and oscilloscopes
- RTOS experience
- Bare-metal programming of microcontrollers
- Proficiency in Python and/or C++
- Ability to develop PC utilities for testing embedded systems (e.g. in C#, Python or C++)
- Experience writing bootloaders
- Able to read and understand hardware schematics
- Understanding of real-time system constraints
Benefits
TTP operates from an award-winning campus in green surroundings in Melbourn, just south of Cambridge.
Our comprehensive benefits package includes:
- Annual profit-related bonus
- Virtual shares that reward you with a stake in TTP Group’s long-term success
- Employer pension contribution of 10% of salary
- Private medical insurance for employees and dependants
- Free lunch and refreshments
- Life insurance worth 6 x salary
- 25 days holiday
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave, with the option to return part-time for a year
- Electric car leasing scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Interest-free season ticket loan
- Local sports facilities and theatre discounts and memberships
- A comprehensive relocation package is also available, if applicable
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Top Skills
What We Do
At TTP we work with start-ups through to big corporates, across multiple sectors, to solve challenging problems steeped in technology. By combing passion and flexibility with a deep expertise in science, engineering, and design, we help our clients unlock opportunities and make brilliant things happen.
We’re independent, we’re free-thinkers and we’re agile to the core, and for over 35 years it’s helped us find better solutions faster – time and time again. We take a multidisciplinary approach, and our teams are set up around the project needs, which means we can tackle your problem holistically from the start. What’s more, we’ll be on your side and work with you as one team, and we’ll want the project to succeed as much as you do.
