Embedded Software Engineer - Linea Research

Based: Letchworth Garden City / Hybrid

Term: Permanent, Full time

Salary: Dependant on experience + benefits

The Company

Linea Research Ltd, part of Focusrite Group PLC, designs and manufactures high performance audio electronics for the professional market. Our amplifiers and processors are used across the world at some of the most prestigious venues and events. We are a global brand and the leading manufacturer of professional amplifiers in the UK.

Our modern offices and research facilities are based in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire and we have plans to make 2025 an exciting year of growth for the company.

We have an exciting opportunity for the right person to join our software department.  In this position, the successful candidate will help develop the firmware on which our products depend. This is a full time, permanent position.

We are looking someone with:

At least 2 years experience writing and debugging code on embedded systems in C and C++

As an Embedded Developer we would expect you to have some experience of:

• getting new hardware from initial power up to running 'main()'
• writing low level drivers, test code and unit tests
• working with common serial interfaces like I2C, UART and SPI etc.
• working with Real Time Operating Systems, network stacks and Flash filing systems
• using embedded debugging tools that work with JTAG and Arm Cortex SWD etc.
• using basic electronics test equipment
• reading the parts of circuit diagrams relevant to embedded systems

Also of benefit would be:

• Familiarity with Python and C#.NET
• Familiarity with SQL, Azure, Jenkins and Github
• Familiarity with ARM cored processors
• Familiarity with Digital Signal Processing
• An interest in audio equipment or the audio / music industry

Benefits:

• Hybrid way of working after probation
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• The opportunity to join our Group Pension, Income Protection, Life Assurance,
  Health Cash Plan and Private Medical Insurance schemes
• The opportunity to participate in our Group Bonus scheme
• The opportunity to join our Electric Car Scheme

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Senior Qt and C++ Developer - TiMax

Term: Full-time, Permanent

Location: London, N7 / Hybrid

Salary: Negotiable + benefits

TiMax are pioneers of the rapidly expanding sector of immersive sound experiences. We are focused on high-channel count, spatial audio sound reinforcement solutions for theatre, opera, musical theatre, live music events, festivals, corporate events and more!

The Role:

• This is an exciting time to join our TiMax Spatial Software team. We are looking for a Senior Qt and C++ Developer to work with us to create the software that brings our industry-leading spatial audio processor to life!
• The role will require work on a cross-platform application, from high-level user interfaces, down to lower-level networking protocols, and the layers of abstraction and concurrency that tie it all together.
• As part of an Agile team that iterates and responds to user feedback, you will contribute to ideas that shape our products and continually improve team best practices!

Skills and experience required:

The ideal candidate will have:

• A highly developed interest in providing slick and attractive interfaces and workflows to users and will seek satisfaction in delivering an amazing product backed up with elegant code.
• Experience designing and specifying software architecture, defining a system's overall structure and behaviour.
• Experience working in a product team with Product Owners and Designers.
• Experience leading a software development team.
• Strong C++ and Standard Library knowledge with at least 5 years software engineering experience on commercial products.
• The ability to program in C++20 and use MacOS and Windows operating systems.
• Good understanding of object-oriented design and architecture techniques with experience in implementing design patterns.
• Proven ability in solving complex problems, debugging, and profiling.
• Experience of UI design and frameworks such Qt.
• Experience using collaborative tools and CI/CD systems (Git, Miro, Figma).
• Masters level knowledge in Computer Science or related Engineering discipline and relevant experience.
• Excellent communication skills, accuracy and ability to draft clear documentation.

Desirable experience and knowledge:

• Knowledge of OSC, MIDI, music control systems / DAWs.
• Experience with audio processing and a genuine interest in the music industry.

Work location and job conditions:

This is a full-time position of 37.5 hours per week over the standard working hours of 8.45am to 5.30pm Monday to Thursday and 8.45am to 4pm on Friday. An hour is allowed for lunch Monday to Thursday and 45 minutes on Friday. This is a hybrid role, when in the office you will be based at Tileyard, London, N7.

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Channel Marketing Coordinator

Based: High Wycombe / Hybrid
Term: Permanent, Full time
Salary: Dependant on experience + excellent benefits

The Role:

Reporting to the Head of Third-Party Distribution, the EMEA Distribution Channel Marketing Coordinator will oversee the marketing communication processes for all EMEA distribution partners, ensuring they have the resources needed for the effective representation of our brands, and the successful rollout of marketing campaigns and product launches.

As part of the FGEMEA team, the Channel Marketing Coordinator will work to maintain the best possible brand representation both in-store and online, collaborating with our distributor network to develop and execute activities that drive demand and meet specific product and sales needs.

This role is responsible for implementing creative and proactive marketing campaigns across all Focusrite Group Content Creation brands (Focusrite, Novation, ADAM Audio, Sequential, and Oberheim) whilst also addressing the reactive marketing requirements of distribution partners.

Core responsibilities include:

• Ensure timely planning, communication and follow-up of all marketing deliverables with our EMEA distribution partners.
• Collaborate with the EMEA sales team to align marketing activities with revenue targets, product priorities, and sales opportunities.
• Conduct regular, clear, and concise audits of the marketing output from core partners across the EMEA distribution and reseller network.
• Confidently oversee multiple brands and partners, implementing efficiencies where possible to maintain focus on high-priority opportunities.
• Develop and/or adapt proactive marketing plans that align with regional strategies and individual brand objectives.
• Manage the quarterly marketing rebate process to evaluate distribution partner success and provide performance summaries to account managers.
• Work with the FGEMEA Head of Marketing to understand regional priorities, devising and executing suitable campaigns in collaboration with EMEA distributors.
• Represent the needs of the EMEA distribution team at internal marketing meetings, liaising with brand, creative and content teams to ensure timely creation of relevant assets.
• Travel within EMEA (approximately once per quarter) to engage with top distribution accounts, building and maintaining relationships and managing their marketing output.

Skills and experience required:

• Effective communication and collaboration skills to work across different internal and external teams.
• A deep understanding of marketing principles to effectively support EMEA distribution partners’ campaigns that resonate with target audiences and uphold brands’ integrity.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail for coordinating EMEA distribution partners’ events/campaigns and supporting their marketing initiatives.
• Adaptability and flexibility.
• Creativity and Innovation.
• Time Management and Prioritizng.

About Us

Focusrite plc is a global music and audio group that develops and markets music technology products. Used by audio professionals and amateur musicians alike, our solutions facilitate the high-quality production of recorded and live sound. Our audio technology brands stand together, seeking to enrich lives through music by removing barriers to creativity – ‘we make music easy to make’.

The Focusrite Group trades under thirteen established and rapidly growing brands: Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Novation, ADAM Audio, Sequential, Oberheim, Martin Audio, Optimal Audio, Ampify Music, Linea Research, Sonnox, OutBoard and TiMax. With a high-quality reputation and a rich heritage spanning decades, its brands are category leaders in the music-making industry.

Music technology is an enriching space to work in and we enjoy a Group-wide open-door culture which encourages innovation. This culture, combined with a passion for the inspirational solutions we create, has led to the group winning numerous accolades, including six Queen's Awards, the AIM Company of the Year Award 2021 and regular appearances in 'The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For’.

The Focusrite Group is dedicated to building a great place to work and as an equal opportunity employer we are committed to Diversity and Inclusion. The group mission is to cultivate an equitable culture, internally and externally, where all people feel they are welcome, safe and positively represented, because at Focusrite they truly are. Equally, we recognise the major impact that climate change is having on our world and work every day towards being industry leaders in a carbon neutral future.

Benefits include flexible/hybrid working, company pension, life insurance, private healthcare, Health Cash Plan, enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay, employee purchase scheme, group bonus scheme, company music events, offsite company parties and free lunch in the canteen. We arrange company training sessions and encourage personal development.

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Senior PCB Design Engineer

Based: High Wycombe / Hybrid
Term: Permanent, Full time
Salary: £45000 - £60000 pa + excellent benefits

We’re looking for an experienced PCB Layout Engineer to join our hardware team, delivering class-leading products across our Focusrite, Novation and Focusrite Pro brands.

About you:

You’re passionate about designing and bringing products to market, solving difficult technical challenges, and sharing your knowledge and experience with others. You have a proven track record of delivering PCB designs and have demonstrated your skills across several successful projects. You’re a great communicator, able to integrate and contribute quickly with a multidisciplinary delivery team. You’re always looking to expand your skillset, learn new tools and improve the way we work.

The successful candidate will have a background in audio tech, consumer electronics, scientific instrumentation or similar, with knowledge of Zuken Cadstar or Altium Designer.

About the role:

You’ll work closely with a team of Electronic Engineers who have considerable layout experience but are not specialists - that will be you.

In addition to designing PCBs, you’ll ensure that we’re making the best use of our tools and will own our layout process and practices. Depending on your experience and your aspirations, there’ll be opportunities to develop this role to include schematic design or focus on process improvement. You can initially expect to:

• Design mixed-signal PCBs, balancing challenging cost, time and quality constraints.
• Own our tools, parts libraries and PCB design processes.
• Become the PCB CAD expert within our hardware community.
• Liaise with our factories and production engineers to ensure cost-effective manufacturability of our PCBAs.
• Assist in troubleshooting issues with manufacture and test.
• Work with our hardware community to establish best practice for PCB design.

Essential skills/ experience:

• 5 years’ experience in a PCB layout or electronics design role.
• Zuken Cadstar, Altium Designer.
• PCB design for cost-effective, high-volume manufacture.
• Design for signal integrity and EMC compliance.
• Strong technical communication skills.
• Ability to estimate tasks and complete them to agreed deadlines.

Experience of the following would be a significant advantage:

• Consumer electronics.
• Production engineering (factory test methods, PCB assembly).
• Audio, instrumentation or other high-performance analogue designs.
• Active interest in audio and music technology.

About Us

Focusrite plc is a global music and audio group that develops and markets music technology products. Used by audio professionals and amateur musicians alike, our solutions facilitate the high-quality production of recorded and live sound. Our audio technology brands stand together, seeking to enrich lives through music by removing barriers to creativity – ‘we make music easy to make’.

The Focusrite Group trades under thirteen established and rapidly growing brands: Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Novation, ADAM Audio, Sequential, Oberheim, Martin Audio, Optimal Audio, Ampify Music, Linea Research, Sonnox, OutBoard and TiMax. With a high-quality reputation and a rich heritage spanning decades, its brands are category leaders in the music-making industry.

Music technology is an enriching space to work in and we enjoy a Group-wide open-door culture which encourages innovation. This culture, combined with a passion for the inspirational solutions we create, has led to the group winning numerous accolades, including six Queen's Awards, the AIM Company of the Year Award 2021 and regular appearances in 'The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For’.

The Focusrite Group is dedicated to building a great place to work and as an equal opportunity employer we are committed to Diversity and Inclusion. The group mission is to cultivate an equitable culture, internally and externally, where all people feel they are welcome, safe and positively represented, because at Focusrite they truly are. Equally, we recognise the major impact that climate change is having on our world and work every day towards being industry leaders in a carbon neutral future.

Benefits include flexible/hybrid working, company pension, life insurance, private healthcare, Health Cash Plan, enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay, employee purchase scheme, group bonus scheme, company music events, offsite company parties and free lunch in the canteen. We arrange company training sessions and encourage personal development.

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Creative Artworker

Based: High Wycombe / Hybrid
Term: Permanent, Full time
Salary: £25,000 - £35,000 + excellent benefits

The Role:

As Creative Artworker, you will be responsible for enhancing the impact and reach of our campaigns by working closely with division, regional, and our various brand marketing teams. You will support these teams by creating, adapting, and localising marketing assets across various media formats, ensuring all outputs align with brand guidelines, technical standards, and creative vision. Your keen eye for detail, strong design skills, and understanding of digital and print production processes will be essential, with basic video editing skills considered an advantage.

Essential Functions and Major responsibilities:

• Design & Adaptation: Create and adapt marketing assets for all division and regional teams as required, in line with brand guidelines. This will include resizing, technical/format adjustments, and creative variants for testing. 
• Production: Prepare designs for print and digital outputs, ensuring all artwork is press-ready, technically accurate, and aligned with brand standards. 
• Localisation: Working with the Localisation Manager and regional marketing teams, create localised assets from global materials that respect cultural nuances while remains true to the brand identity. 
• Video & Motion Graphic Support: Assist in basic video editing tasks, including resizing, formatting, and adding subtitles and captions. Provide simple animations or motion graphics for digital campaigns when needed. 
• Collaboration: Work closely with marketing and brand design teams to interpret briefs, understand requirements, and support the execution of creative concepts and requests, offering suggestions to maximise impact. 
• Work Coordination:Manage your workload across multiple projects, ensuring timely delivery while maintaining a high standard of quality.
• Quality Control:Proof and review final materials before release, ensuring high quality, accuracy, and that all files are optimised for their intended use. 
• Technical Expertise: Act as a resource for the division and regional teams on production best practices, advising on appropriate formats, file sizes, colour models, and other technical aspects. 
• Asset Management:Organise and maintain design files and libraries, ensuring assets are correctly labelled, archived, and easily accessible to the team.

Skills and experience required:

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a similar role within a design studio, advertising agency, or in-house creative team. 
• Technical Proficiency: 
• Advanced in Adobe Creative Suite, particularly InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. 
• Knowledge of file formats and colour models (CMYK, RGB, Pantone), image retouching, and layout best practices. 
• Familiarity with digital asset management tools and production processes. 
• Strong focus on quality assurance 
• Demonstrable understanding of layout, colour, typography, and design principles with an eye for detail. 
• Experience interpreting and adhering to brand guidelines, ensuring consistency across all creative assets. 
• Experience adapting creative assets for multiple global markets, with sensitivity to cultural nuances. 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment. 
• Proven ability to handle multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work within tight deadlines.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Experience with animation or video editing software (e.g., After Effects, Premiere Pro).
• Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS.
• Familiarity with project management tools (e.g., Jira, Wrike, Trello, or similar).
• Experience working in a multidisciplinary team with designers and marketeers.

About Us

Focusrite plc is a global music and audio group that develops and markets music technology products. Used by audio professionals and amateur musicians alike, our solutions facilitate the high-quality production of recorded and live sound. Our audio technology brands stand together, seeking to enrich lives through music by removing barriers to creativity – ‘we make music easy to make’.

The Focusrite Group trades under thirteen established and rapidly growing brands: Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Novation, ADAM Audio, Sequential, Oberheim, Martin Audio, Optimal Audio, Ampify Music, Linea Research, Sonnox, OutBoard and TiMax. With a high-quality reputation and a rich heritage spanning decades, its brands are category leaders in the music-making industry.

Music technology is an enriching space to work in and we enjoy a Group-wide open-door culture which encourages innovation. This culture, combined with a passion for the inspirational solutions we create, has led to the group winning numerous accolades, including six Queen's Awards, the AIM Company of the Year Award 2021 and regular appearances in 'The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For’.

The Focusrite Group is dedicated to building a great place to work and as an equal opportunity employer we are committed to Diversity and Inclusion. The group mission is to cultivate an equitable culture, internally and externally, where all people feel they are welcome, safe and positively represented, because at Focusrite they truly are. Equally, we recognise the major impact that climate change is having on our world and work every day towards being industry leaders in a carbon neutral future.

Benefits include flexible/hybrid working, company pension, life insurance, private healthcare, Health Cash Plan, enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay, employee purchase scheme, group bonus scheme, company music events, offsite company parties and free lunch in the canteen. We arrange company training sessions and encourage personal development.

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Embedded Products System Architect (Staff Engineer) 

Location: High Wycombe offices with hybrid working available 

Term: Full-time, Permanent 

Salary: Negotiable plus benefits

Do you have a professional background in embedded software development or embedded system architecture?

Do you enjoy working with people, and have experience helping multidiscipline teams collaborate on systems design?

Are you passionate and knowledgeable about music and audio technology?

If you have answered yes to all the above, we would love to hear from you! As part of our commitment to deliver high quality and reliable products to our customers, we are hiring for a new role to support our growing community of engineers working on connected products with a tech stack from embedded software through to mobile applications. 

The full extent of this role is broad and influential, but we are open to applications from people with a range of experience levels for whom this role may be a career progression. If you have some but not all the skills and experience required, we would still love to hear from you - Let us know what you would bring to the role, and why you would be a great fit for the team.

What you’ll be doing:

We are looking for someone to work closely with and support our Engineering teams, with architectural design considerations across our ranges of products. The focus of the role will be on our hardware products, but an awareness of desktop and web technologies would be beneficial.

While of course this is a technical role, we believe that successful system architecture is about people – helping engineers and teams to communicate, collaborate, and successfully work together to build, test, and maintain integrated and scalable designs. The role will help to ensure that the Business and Product Strategy is informing the technical research and discovery, and that we are able to quickly iterate as we test emergent product designs.

With a focus on connected architecture, you will engage frequently and closely with our Embedded Software, Automated Test (Design and Manufacturing), Desktop, Mobile, Web and Product Design Teams, to build a community where Tech Leads and Engineers from all teams are contributing to architectural design choices that support our strategy.

Your strategic insight, and awareness of design integrations and interfaces, will help identify the necessary enablers for the teams – those things the system architecture needs to feature, and that teams need to function effectively.

Using quarterly team planning, engineering catchups, and team product demos, you will keep the teams connected and up to date as the product system design evolves and help ensure that any system architectural issues the teams encounter during the implementation are addressed. At team level, you will participate in their solution definition and implementation, and update the architecture with feedback as the teams design, build and test their work.

Non-functional requirements, especially where they exist between or across multiple teams, are also vital to achieve a secure, well performing, sustainable and scalable architectural design. You will be responsible for taking care of these requirements and implementing solutions, getting input from the team tech leads and ensuring they are accounted for as part of the overall system design and delivery.

As part of this role, you will report to the Head of Embedded Software and work closely with other Engineering Managers and Tech Leads across the department.

Key activities include:

• Leading a community of practice that ensures our product system architectures are well considered; secure, high performance, testable, sustainable, and scalable
• Ensuring our product system architectures are aligned to our product and engineering strategy.
• Being a team enabler – ensuring each team is aware of the bigger architectural picture of which they are a part, and able to contribute effectively to that architectural design
• Embedding yourself in those teams at key points in the development cycle, to help in the hands-on implementation of key architectural components.

An ideal candidate is likely to be:

• Experienced with embedded systems including collaborating with electronics engineers on system design constraints and with software teams on systems integration.
• Experienced in software platform engineering techniques and design methodologies including hands-on development experience in C/C++
• Familiar with systems implementing a mixture of real-time and non-real-time processing
• An advocate for automated testing from unit testing to hardware in the loop, and familiar with principles of Continuous Integration.
• A people person, with excellent communication skills and with a proven track record of helping people and teams work well together.
• Flexible, and able to effectively prioritise and schedule across multiple projects.
• An advocate for good documentation and the importance of knowledge sharing.
• Committed to personal development and aware of the latest industry trends 
• Methodical and rigorous, with a logical approach to problem solving.
• Passionate and knowledgeable about music and audio technology

Benefits include flexible/hybrid working, company pension, life insurance, private healthcare, enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay, employee purchase scheme, group bonus scheme, workplace nursery benefit, company music events, offsite company parties and free lunch in the canteen. We arrange company training sessions and encourage personal development.

For more information visit https://focusriteplc.com

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