Firmware Engineer
Marlowe Instruments · Scientific instruments
Instrument control firmware for a mass spectrometer, where timing errors show up as bad science.
Salary band
£50,000 – £68,000
- Location
- Sheffield
- Pattern
- On-site
- Posted
- 24 Aug 2026 (10d ago)
- Process
- 3 stages, listed below
No account needed. One of us reads it before anything reaches the company.
The work
The instrument fires ions and measures their flight time in nanoseconds. Firmware sequences all of it.
Worth knowing
- On-site, because the instruments cost more than a house and do not leave the building.
Must have
- Embedded C in production
- Hardware bring-up
- Reading datasheets properly
Nice to have
- Scientific instruments
- Real-time signal acquisition
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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