
Aquam Water Services Ltd
Senior Firmware Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £25,000 - 37,000 per year
Requirements:- We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Firmware Engineer with strong technical expertise in low-power embedded systems, cellular IoT communications, secure device connectivity, and high-reliability battery-powered products.
- We need experience supporting water, wastewater, environmental, and utility monitoring applications.
- We require the ability and willingness to travel between Derby and Sheffield as business needs require.
- We require the ability and willingness to undertake occasional international travel, including travel to the USA, to support product development, collaboration, customer engagement, supplier activity, or transfer work.
- We design, develop, optimise, and support embedded firmware for Orbis and Aquam IoT products, including next-generation dataloggers, sensors, and field-deployed monitoring devices.
- We contribute across the full product lifecycle, from architecture and design through implementation, verification, production support, field diagnostics, and continuous improvement.
- We design, develop, and maintain embedded firmware for battery-powered IoT dataloggers, sensors, and utility monitoring devices.
- We implement and optimise communication stacks for LTE Cat 1, LTE-M, NB-IoT, and other cellular or short-range connectivity technologies as required by our product roadmap.
- We integrate sensing technologies such as pressure, flow, acoustic, ultrasonic, temperature, analogue inputs, digital pulse inputs, and other field instrumentation interfaces.
- We develop efficient data logging, power-management, wake/sleep regimes, OTA update mechanisms, diagnostics, and fault recovery behaviours for field-deployed devices.
- We deliver secure and reliable device-to-cloud communications using HTTPS, MQTT, certificates, encryption, and appropriate authentication mechanisms.
- Cloud
- Embedded
- Firmware
- Flow
- IoT
- Support
- MQTT
- Hardware
More:
We are hiring a Senior Firmware Engineer for our Orbis and Aquam IoT products. This is an in-person role with free parking and on-site parking available. The position supports the development of next-generation dataloggers, sensors, and field-deployed monitoring devices for water, wastewater, environmental, and utility monitoring applications.
last updated 33 week of 2026
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Aquam Water Services Ltd
Derby
IT
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£75,000
UK median
This salary is 59% below the UK median for Senior roles (£75,000/yr).
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