Embedded Engineer (Signalling)
Calder Mobility · Rail and transit
Interface equipment between our software and signalling systems installed in the 1980s.
Salary band
£78,000 – £95,000
- Location
- Leeds
- Pattern
- On-site
- Posted
- 7 Aug 2026 (27d ago)
- Process
- 3 stages, listed below
No account needed. One of us reads it before anything reaches the company.
The work
The railway does not replace signalling because software is inconvenient. Most of this job is meeting old equipment where it is.
Must have
- Safety-critical embedded work
- Legacy protocol integration
- Writing to a standard
Nice to have
- EN 50128 or DO-178C
- Rail signalling
Interview process
If the client adds a stage after you’ve started, we’ll tell you, and you can withdraw.
- 01
Intro call
30 minTheir questions and yours. No competency framework.
- 02
Technical conversation
60 minWalk through something you built. No live coding.
- 03
Team and offer
45 minMeet the people you would work with, talk numbers.
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