Expert Embedded Software Engineer

Founded in Switzerland in 1968, Zühlke is owned by its partners and located across Europe and Asia. We are a global transformation partner, with engineering and innovation in our DNA. We're trusted to help clients envision and build their businesses for the future – to run smarter today while adapting for tomorrow’s markets, customers, and communities. Our multidisciplinary teams specialise in tech strategy and business innovation, digital solutions and applications, and device and systems engineering. We excel in complex, regulated spaces including health and finance, connecting strategy, tech implementation, and operational services to help clients become more effective, resilient businesses.

If you share our values and want to do the best work, for the right reasons, we can offer you the chance to do it on a global scale and play a real role in shaping our exciting journey.

Important: To ensure a smooth review process, please submit all application documents (CV, cover letter) in English only.

The role

Live your passion for product development in exciting customer projects and be inspired by your colleagues’ enthusiasm. Your job will involve working closely with clients to develop, test, and ship products that meets their needs. You will efficiently and competently solve complex challenges.

As an embedded software engineer at Zühlke, you’ll be able to work across a variety of systems, competencies, technologies, and industries. We leverage technologies like C, C++, Embedded Linux, Rust and Python for our projects across the globe. We care about power consumption and performance of our products and improve their real-time behaviour. The actual programming is just one part of our job. Requirements engineering, architecture, testing, documentation and DevOps are just as important.

Our reputation is fundamental to our business, so our culture emphasizes quality, reliability and respect. We value learning new technologies and skills; thus, you will get a generous budget to attend conferences, participate in certified courses, and our annual technical camp is a lot of fun.

How you'll make impact

• Ensuring that good engineering practices are applied in daily work

• As a part of an agile team, you will develop products, embedded software architectures or automation pipelines, creating high-quality solutions while adapting to customer requirements

• You pay attention to a clean structure, good performance and sensible test coverage

• Directly communicating with customers

• Propose technical innovations, methods and principles that could be implemented on a project

• Support other colleagues and participate in the onboarding process for new teammates

What is important to us

• 5 years of overall experience in Embedded

• at least 3 years of experience in modern C++

• Knowledge of Embedded Linux, RTOS or bare metal real-time systems

• Experience in GUI applications development on embedded devices would be a plus

• You have a technical-related degree and/or equivalent professional qualification

• You value high-quality code and want to improve and share your knowledge of the latest technologies every day.

• You are fluent in English (both written and oral)

• You are communicative, open-minded and like making decisions

• You have experience effectively communicating with stakeholders outside of your team in agile environments.

What we offer

• Work life blend: we offer a safe & healthy workplace, with flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home

• Profit share scheme: In addition to your annual salary, you may receive a profit share defined by the company’s success in the previous year

• Global and Diverse Zühlke community: witness how colleagues from all our 16 offices across the globe come together to create a unique, positive and inclusive work culture, learning from one another at annual team camps, and celebrating year-end parties and other local festivities

• Committed to development: we are committed to the growth of our people and are investing in your development. We’re empowering you to build the skills you need to make a positive impact, both personally and for our clients, today and in the future.

For benefits that we offer please go to this link for Serbia, this link for Portugal.

How to Apply

Please remember all applications must be submitted in English only to be considered.

If you feel you don't meet all the requirements, we are still happy to get to know you, learn more about your ambitions and ideas and look forward to receiving your application!  

We welcome people from all backgrounds, regardless of their gender, personality, national origin, race, religion, colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability or veteran status.