About this role
Salary: £80,000 - 120,000 per year
Requirements
- Experience leading software engineering teams
- C++ development background
- Embedded software experience
- Experience delivering software for complex products
- Strong understanding of software architecture and systems design
- Experience working in multidisciplinary engineering environments
- Eligibility for security clearance
- Experience in defence, aerospace, drones or robotics
- NVIDIA Jetson experience
- Linux driver development experience
- Python experience
- TCP/IP networking experience
- Safety-critical or regulated-industry experience
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a software engineering team, currently comprising 12 engineers and growing
- Own team capability, delivery, standards and technical direction
- Work across the full product lifecycle
- Translate customer and business requirements into deliverable engineering plans
- Ensure high technical standards and strong team performance
Technologies
- CTO
- Embedded
- Linux
- Python
- Robotics
- Security
- TCP/IP
More
Were supporting a fast-growing technology business that develops advanced real-time systems to protect critical infrastructure and assets worldwide. This is a key leadership appointment, reporting to the CTO, with an opportunity to shape an established software engineering team and influence the future direction of sophisticated embedded products. The role is based in Newcastle, with a salary of £80,000–£120,000, a 25% bonus, pension, private healthcare, life assurance, enhanced holidays and additional flexible benefits.
last updated 46 week of 2026