At a Glance
- Tasks: Own product quality and standards, guiding it through critical accreditations.
- Company: Join Howler, a forward-thinking company shaping the future of fire detection.
- Benefits: Performance-related bonuses, autonomy, and a supportive team environment.
- Other info: Opportunity for significant career growth in a dynamic, hands-on role.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in compliance engineering while developing your skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in embedded software engineering and knowledge of radio technology.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 65000 £ per year.
You’ll take full ownership of the product’s quality and standards - shaping it with your decisions and expertise. You’ll guide the product through EN 54 and other critical accreditations, giving you unmatched experience in compliance engineering. This isn’t just about writing code; it’s about building credibility, creating documentation, and making the product industry-proof. This is a role where it is primarily onsite - with some hybrid working. You’ll have the autonomy to focus deeply on what matters, without constant interruptions or micromanagement.
Enjoy a performance‑related bonus that reflects your impact. The better you do, the better we all do - and that means meaningful rewards for your contribution. And because you’ll be part of a small, skilled team, you’ll always have support, but you’ll also be trusted to lead where your knowledge is strongest. You’ll flex across development, testing, and manufacturing, broadening your expertise while remaining focused on what makes you great.
What you’ll do
- You’ll work methodically against standards, feeding insight back into the business. This includes:
- Assessing each standard, identifying where the product currently sits and closing the gaps.
- Writing the code to fill those gaps, handling the edge cases and failure modes that standards demand.
- Generating the documentation needed to support each standard, including reverse‑engineering or rebuilding design documentation to original‑design‑spec level where it does not yet exist.
- Raising the bar on overall product quality and on the data and insight the product produces.
- Applying that to the manufacturing side too — manufacturing test and returns processing both sit inside the quality picture.
- Using your knowledge to tell the business how the product can serve clients better, not just pass tests.
What you’ll need
- Embedded software engineering experience with genuine radio/wireless knowledge — understanding how radio technology stacks together, how it behaves when it fails, and the edge cases that come with it.
- Proven experience developing to standards — comfortable taking a formal standard and driving a product to compliance (EN 54 or directly transferable accreditation/safety standards).
- Senior enough to work autonomously and make sound design decisions, having come up through a range of engineering roles.
- You’ll be a developer first, with testing and manufacturing knowledge as a bonus. You might have come from smaller teams where you carried real responsibility, or from larger projects and moved to a more hands‑on, smaller team environment.
About the company
Howler is moving the product into a stronger, more self‑sufficient phase and stepping back from the third‑party development partner. The embedded core of the product works, but it is not “finished” in the sense that matters commercially: there is a significant body of standards, documentation and quality work still to do before the product carries the depth of credibility the fire‑detection industry expects. This person is the engineer who owns that product agenda — with quality the expected outcome of getting it right. The headline target is achieving EN 54, but that is one of several accreditation standards the product will need to meet over the next couple of years. The work is part code, part evidence, part judgement — and it is the “guiding light” that will shape the role for its first 18–24 months.
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Howler is an exceptional employer that fosters a culture of autonomy and trust, allowing Senior Embedded Engineers to take full ownership of product quality and standards. With a focus on meaningful rewards through performance-related bonuses and opportunities for professional growth within a small, skilled team, employees can expect to broaden their expertise while making impactful contributions to the fire-detection industry. The onsite role, complemented by hybrid working options, ensures a collaborative environment where your insights directly shape the product's success.
