Hexwired Recruitment
Software Controls Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £51,000 - 91,000 per year
Requirements:- Degree in Embedded Systems, Electronics, Electrical, or a similar field
- 4+ years of commercial control system design experience
- Excellent commercial CODESYS experience
- Beckhoff or similar PLC experience
- Experience working on safety-critical systems is highly advantageous
- Develop novel and bespoke automation solutions for a range of customers
- Program PLCs and write Embedded C for a brand new product
- CODESYS
- Embedded
- PLC
- FPGA
- Fullstack
- Golang
- Hardware
- Linux
- Machine Learning
- Python
- TypeScript
More:
We are an expanding electronics manufacturer based in Cranfield, UK, working on a brand new product and developing novel automation solutions for a range of customers. We have received several large orders for our products, creating excellent scope for career progression. This is a hybrid role with a salary of circa 45,000 to 55,000 GBP per year, and we may also be open to contractors.
last updated 34 week of 2026
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Hexwired Recruitment
Bedford
IT
Skills & Technologies
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£71,000
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£60,000
UK median
This salary is 18% above the UK median for Software Engineers (£60,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks