Embedded Firmware Engineer

Kestrel Robotics · Warehouse automation

Motor control and safety interlocks for a picking arm that works at minus twenty degrees.

Embedded / FirmwareSenior (5–9 yrs)On-sitePermanentSponsors visas

Stack

Salary band

£70,000 – £90,000

0.02–0.08% options

No account needed. One of us reads it before anything reaches the company.

The arm has six axes and a hard requirement to stop within 120 milliseconds of a light curtain break. That requirement shapes everything.

You would own the motion firmware and the safety controller that watches it.

On-site in Bristol, because the robots are here and you will want your hands on them.
There is a cold room on the ground floor and you will spend time in it.

Must have

Nice to have

Interview process

If the client adds a stage after you’ve started, we’ll tell you, and you can withdraw.

01
Intro call
30 min
Their questions and yours. No competency framework.
02
Technical conversation
60 min
Walk through something you built. No live coding.
03
Team and offer
45 min
Meet the people you would work with, talk numbers.

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