Embedded Lead Software Engineer

Lead Embedded Software Engineer Location: Ealing Area – With Hybrid Working from Home KO2’s client is looking for a Lead Embedded Software Engineer to drive the development of robust, scalable embedded software solutions for next-generation electric products. You will play a key role across the full product lifecycle — from early-stage prototyping and system design through to production, manufacturing, and long-term product support — while helping build engineering best practices and delivery capability within the team. Lead the design and development of high-quality embedded software that is efficient, maintainable, scalable, and production-ready Provide technical leadership to a small embedded software team, supporting task planning, technical direction, mentoring, and code reviews Own key architectural decisions, helping define software frameworks, coding standards, development processes, and long-term platform strategy Design, implement, test, and maintain embedded software for internally developed electric systems and connected devices Investigate and resolve complex real-time issues relating to timing, performance, reliability, and signal integrity Support continuous improvement initiatives across tooling, automation, testing, and development workflows Contribute to project planning, technical estimation, risk management, and delivery milestones Champion engineering best practices including documentation, version control, CI/CD, and software quality standards Strong commercial experience developing embedded software in C and C++ Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers within a small technical team or project environment Strong understanding of embedded systems architecture and full software development lifecycle practices Comfortable working across hardware/software boundaries, including debugging and system integration Familiarity with Python for automation, tooling, or test development This is an excellent opportunity for a senior embedded engineer ready to step into a lead role — or an existing lead engineer looking for greater technical ownership and influence within an innovative engineering environment developing advanced electric products.