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Development Test Engineer. Mid-Level

Test Engineer 2-5 Years Exp
Job Location: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Location: Canberra
Type: Full-time
Environment: Defence / Security-Cleared

This role sits in a defence environment working on embedded and electromechanical systems. It is hands-on, technical, and process-driven. You will be working with real hardware, formal test processes, and strict quality and security requirements.

You must be an Australian citizen and eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

What You’ll Do

  • Execute development and verification testing on embedded and electromechanical systems

  • Set up and operate test equipment, instrumentation, and data loggers

  • Run tests, capture results, and document outcomes clearly and accurately

  • Work closely with electrical, software, and mechanical engineers to identify and resolve issues

  • Follow defined test procedures and quality processes

  • Maintain test records and evidence within a formal Quality Management System

  • Operate in a secure environment with strong compliance and documentation expectations

What You Bring

  • Engineering degree in Electrical, Software, Robotics, Mechatronics, or similar

  • Hands-on testing experience with physical systems

  • Experience working with embedded systems

  • Basic electronics skills and comfort working with circuit boards and components

  • Knowledge of communication protocols such as CAN, Serial, or Ethernet

  • Basic scripting experience

  • Familiarity with version control and configuration management

  • Clear written and verbal communication skills

Nice to Have

  • Testing or quality certification

  • Experience commissioning or setting up new test equipment

  • Experience using data loggers

  • Exposure to computer networks

  • Prior experience in defence, aerospace, or other regulated environments

Personal Attributes We Value

  • High attention to detail and discipline

  • Willingness to follow process and document work properly

  • Systems thinking across software, hardware, and the wider system

  • Strong ethical judgement and security awareness

If you are an engineer who wants hands-on responsibility, real systems, and work that matters in a defence environment, apply now.

📧 lance@runtimerec.com
☎️ 03 9005 2123

 

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Senior Development Test Engineer

Verification Engineer Test Engineer 5-10 Years Exp
Job Location: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Location: Canberra
Type: Full-time
Environment: Defence / Security-Cleared

This is a senior role with ownership of testing strategy and execution in a defence environment. You will define how testing is done, lead by example, and be accountable for test quality and outcomes.

You must be an Australian citizen and eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

What You’ll Do

  • Define and own test strategies and plans for embedded systems

  • Lead development and verification testing across electrical, software, and mechanical domains

  • Develop and maintain test procedures, reports, and formal evidence

  • Commission, improve, and maintain test systems and infrastructure

  • Lead fault investigation and root-cause analysis

  • Mentor junior engineers and testers

  • Drive practical improvements to testing and quality processes

  • Work autonomously on customer and program deliverables

What You Bring

  • Engineering degree in Electrical, Software, Robotics, Mechatronics, or similar

  • Broad, multi-disciplinary engineering background

  • Strong hands-on embedded systems testing experience

  • Proven experience developing test plans independently

  • Experience operating within formal Quality Management Systems

  • Solid understanding of CAN, Serial, Ethernet, and related protocols

  • Scripting or software skills to support automation and analysis

  • Ability to operate independently in a secure, regulated environment

Nice to Have

  • Active or previously held security clearance

  • Defence, aerospace, or safety-critical industry experience

  • Testing or quality certifications

  • Experience improving test frameworks or processes

  • Data logging and test infrastructure experience

Personal Attributes We Value

  • Ownership and accountability

  • High standards and intolerance for sloppy work

  • Clear systems-level thinking

  • Strong ethical compass and security awareness

If you are ready to own test strategy, raise standards, and work on defence programs where failure is not an option, apply now.

📧 lance@runtimerec.com
☎️ 03 9005 2123

 

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Field Detailer

Field Support Engineer 1-2 Years Exp
Job Location: Melbourne, Victoria

The role

This is a hands-on Field Detailer role supporting the delivery of electrical engineering and construction projects across Victoria. The position focuses on capturing accurate, up-to-date asset information through on-site surveys and inspections, working closely with engineers, designers, project managers, and field teams.

This role plays a critical part in ensuring data accuracy, compliance, and smooth project execution. It suits someone comfortable in the field, confident communicating with multiple stakeholders, and disciplined about documentation and standards.

What you’ll do

  • Conduct site visits to capture accurate asset details and photographic evidence

  • Assist accredited auditors and attend Powercor audits as a representative

  • Perform NBN site readiness inspections

  • Collaborate with designers, engineers, project managers, and field teams to align requirements

  • Communicate clearly to clarify details and resolve drafting issues

  • Check drawings for accuracy, completeness, and compliance

  • Ensure adherence to relevant industry standards, safety requirements, and regulations

  • Build and maintain strong working relationships with developers, contractors, councils, consultants, and key stakeholders

  • Identify project risks, contribute to mitigation strategies, and support issue resolution

  • Support coordination across internal teams and external partners

  • Complete additional tasks and project work as directed by your manager

What we’re looking for

  • Current Victorian Driver’s Licence

  • Understanding of Victorian electricity industry standards and compliance processes

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills

  • Confident working on-site and engaging with a wide range of stakeholders

  • High attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy

  • Proficiency in MS Word, MS Excel, and Wrike

  • Experience using CAD tools and utility-based design software is desirable

Why this role exists

The business continues to deliver complex electrical and infrastructure projects that depend on accurate asset data and effective coordination between field and office teams. This role exists to strengthen on-site data capture, reduce rework, support compliance, and improve project outcomes through reliable, up-to-date information.

Why join

  • A role with direct impact on real-world engineering and construction projects

  • Exposure to audits, compliance processes, and multi-stakeholder environments

  • Strong collaboration with engineering, design, and project teams

  • Opportunity to build long-term industry relationships

  • Structured performance reviews, goal setting, and ongoing development

People & development

 

  • Participate in goal setting and annual performance reviews

  • Comply with all company policies, procedures, and safety standards

  • Participate in training and development as directed by your manager

 

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Production Technician

Technician 1-2 Years Exp
Job Location: Melbourne, Victoria

The Role

This is a hands-on production role for someone who actually knows their way around electronics, not just at a surface level. You’ll be working on complex electronic assemblies where precision matters and mistakes are not tolerated. If you enjoy fault-finding, component-level repair, and taking pride in doing things properly, this role fits.

What you’ll do

  • Documenting and reporting repair work performed.

  • Repairing down to component level.

What we’re looking for

  • Strong soldering skills to replace components, including those as small as 0201 and lead-less components.

  • Experience in conducting component-level repairs.

  • Troubleshooting skills, analogue and digital PCB assemblies.

  • Ability to read schematics, assembly drawings and data sheets.

  • Familiar with using electronic test and measurement equipment for fault diagnosis.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

  • Experience in manufacturing or servicing electronic devices.

  • Ability to obtain and maintain necessary certifications as required.

  • Demonstrate a positive attitude and inspire a collaborative team environment.

  • A commitment to high-quality workmanship and attention to detail.

Why this role exists

The business designs and builds highly specialised electronic systems where reliability is non-negotiable. This role exists because repairing, diagnosing, and documenting faults properly at component level is critical to maintaining product quality, compliance, and customer trust. This is not volume production. It’s precision work that directly impacts outcomes.

Why join

 

You’ll be working on meaningful, real-world technology where quality actually matters. You won’t be boxed into mindless rework or rushed shortcuts. The environment values technical competence, accountability, and people who take ownership of their work. If you want stability, technical depth, and the chance to sharpen your skills on complex electronics, this role delivers that without the corporate noise.

If you’re the type who takes pride in fixing things properly and not just making them look fixed, you should apply. Strong technicians are rare, and this role is for someone who wants to be trusted with real responsibility.

To apply or have a confidential discussion, contact:

 

📞 0485 991 211
✉️ simon@runtimerec.com

 

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FPGA Validation Engineer

Validation Engineer 5-10 Years Exp
Job Location: Adelaide, South Australia

This role stands out by giving you hands-on access to real hardware, allowing you to directly influence next-generation product performance.

Join the team as an FPGA Validation Engineer, focusing on validating and improving the performance of advanced FPGA-based systems.

You'll play a key role in ensuring these systems are reliable, robust, and ready for real-world use.

 

Location: Adelaide, South Australia

 

The Role:

  • Validate FPGA designs and support development activities
  • Perform digital logic verification, simulation, and testbench execution
  • Automate validation workflows using scripting tools
  • Conduct hardware debugging using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and similar tools
  • Perform timing analysis, optimisation, and system-level validation
  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues across hardware, firmware, and system interfaces

 

Required Skills:

  • Strong experience with FPGA design/validation using VHDL or Verilog
  • Strong experience with signal processing and high-speed digital logic
  • Hands-on experience with simulation and verification tools
  • Scripting skills in Python, Tcl, or Perl
  • Experienced in embedded and hardware debugging using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, etc.
  • Knowledge of low-level communication interfaces (RS‑232, I2C, SPI)
  • Ability to perform timing analysis and optimisation

 

Nice To Have:

  • Experience in safety-critical or real-time environments
  • Background in automotive, aerospace, defence, or similar industries
  • Exposure to backend systems for telemetry or data analysis

 

Excited by challenging hardware projects?

Take the lead in delivering cutting-edge FPGA solutions - APPLY NOW!

 

P: +61485988800

E: aldwin@runtimerec.com

 

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Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager 10+ Years Exp
Job Location: Melbourne, Victoria

Are you the leader who loves imposing order on complex technical projects?
Join to own the delivery of embedded/electronics hardware. Your core mission: implement the project management, tracking, and accountability the team needs to ship predictably.

🔧 Core Tech Stack:
- Embedded Firmware (Heavy)
- Electronics Engineering (Heavy)
- Mechanical/Industrial Design (Oversight)

🎯 The Mission:
- Take a ~7-person team (scaling to 15-20) from chaos to clarity.
- You’ll build real project discipline - Gantt charts, weekly tracking, accountability for complex multi-year hardware products.

⚡ The Need:
This isn’t just leadership. It’s hands-on technical depth + the discipline to own delivery. We need the “adult in the room” who can solve embedded challenges and ship on schedule.

✅ You Are:
- Must have at least 10+ years experience
- Embedded + Electronics background
- Scaled teams from 5 to 20
- Owned full hardware product delivery
- Built & maintained multi-year project plans
- Execution-focused, zero ego

If you’re the hybrid leader who lives at the intersection of embedded systems, electronics, systems thinking, and real project delivery-let’s talk.

📧 lance@runtimerec.com
☎️ 03 9005 2123

 

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Senior IoT Design Engineer

Embedded Linux Engineer Systems Engineer Software Engineer Firmware Engineer 5-10 Years Exp
Job Location: Melbourne, Victoria

Most Linux roles are about adding features.
This one is about stopping systems from failing.

If you’ve ever been the person called in after an embedded Linux device starts misbehaving in the field. Random reboots. Broken drivers. Library conflicts no one can explain. You already know what this role is.

This is not application development.
This is owning the operating system layer that decides whether the product survives.

You’ll own the Linux foundation of a production IoT device. This is engine-room work. Drivers, system libraries, boot behavior, and the boundaries where things actually break.

If you want surface-level application work, this isn’t it.
If you want ownership of the OS stack everything depends on, read on.

What You’ll Do

Platform and OS Engineering

  • Build, customize, and maintain Linux-based systems for embedded and IoT devices.

  • Debug driver-level issues, kernel interactions, and system-level library conflicts.

  • Optimize boot time, memory usage, and overall system reliability.

  • Integrate and harden system services for real-world deployment.

Security matters, but this is not a theory role. You’ll work with encryption and hardware security where required, not argue about it on a whiteboard.

Firmware and System Integration

  • Own the boundary between firmware, kernel, drivers, and userspace.

  • Integrate first- and third-party libraries into packaged deployments.

  • Debug issues that cross firmware, OS, and application layers.

  • Ensure changes in one layer do not destabilize the rest of the system.

Application and Cloud Interfaces

  • Support system-level interfaces between devices and AWS services.

  • Enable reliable data flow between edge devices and the cloud.

  • Contribute to embedded application work when deep system knowledge is required.

What You Bring

This role is for engineers who have built Linux systems, not just used them.

You bring:

  • Deep, hands-on Linux systems experience.

  • Comfort working close to drivers and low-level components.

  • Strong C/C++ skills. Java experience is useful where it touches native interfaces.

  • The ability to debug problems that do not have clean stack traces.

  • A bias toward correctness, stability, and control.

What This Role Demands

You will operate with ownership.

That means solving problems at the root, making decisions with incomplete information, and accepting that edge devices fail unless every layer is engineered properly.

If you need constant direction, this isn’t your role.
If you want control over the technical foundation of a real IoT product, it is.

Ready to own the core?

If you are the engineer people call when Linux systems misbehave, this is your seat.

You will own the platform decisions that determine whether the product survives in the field or quietly fails. Your work will be felt in every boot and every failure that never happens.

This is not a role for tourists or feature chasers.
It is for engineers who want control, accountability, and authority.

Step in if you want real ownership.

Apply Now

📧 lance@runtimerec.com
☎️ 03 9005 2123

 

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Embedded Linux Software Engineer

Embedded Linux Engineer 10+ Years Exp 5-10 Years Exp
Job Location: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

A defence-focused engineering group is expanding its embedded software capability to support new programs, higher demand, and a rapidly evolving technology roadmap.

This is a hands-on, hardware-proximate environment where embedded, systems, electrical, and mechanical engineers build real systems together, not in silos.

Location: Canberra (onsite) | Melbourne considered only for exceptional candidates.

What You’ll Be Building

You'll work on real-time embedded systems used for tracking, stabilisation, sensing, and fire-control. Core technologies include:

  • Embedded Linux, C, C++

  • Real-time, low-level hardware integration

  • Computer vision and image-processing pipelines

  • ML-assisted tracking (integration, not research)

  • Java for orchestration and system coordination

  • Python for testing, prototyping, and harnesses

  • TI DSPs, microprocessors, sensors, gimbals, motor control

  • A future shift into Xilinx UltraScale FPGA platforms

Who Thrives Here

This isn’t for abstract architects or people who want to stay “high level”. It suits engineers who like real systems, real hardware, real constraints.

You’ll be a strong match if you:

  • Are eligible for Australian security clearance (and meet ITAR conditions)

  • Are comfortable working on defence and weapons-adjacent systems

  • Love embedded systems, sensing, CV, and real-time tech

  • Are product-driven and stay in the fight until the system works

  • Want genuine cross-disciplinary collaboration and increasing technical responsibility

Why This Team Stands Out

  • Hardware, software, electrical, mechanical, and systems engineering all within metres of each other

  • Deep exposure across multiple programs. No silos.

  • Locally engineered, built, and integrated equipment

  • Access to cutting-edge embedded tech: real-time CV, stabilisation, ML-assisted tracking, FPGA platforms

  • Strong upside for engineers aiming at senior/principal pathways

If You’re Interested

Apply NOW - if you're even close to this profile, I’ll walk you through the role and see if the match is real.

lance@runtimerec.com

0485988808

 

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Firmware Engineer

Software Engineer Firmware Engineer 2-5 Years Exp
Job Location: Adelaide, South Australia

Join a team developing firmware for a next-generation microcontroller platform designed for embedded and ML applications.

This role is hands-on and deeply embedded.

This role suits engineers who thrive working close to hardware and enjoy building efficient, reliable systems from the ground up.

What you'll be doing:

  • Develop firmware and reference designs for a 32-bit microcontroller.
  • Port TinyML or similar inference engines to custom MCUs.
  • Work on BareMetal or RTOS environments (FreeRTOS, Zephyr).
  • Use Python for test automation and tooling.
  • Collaborate on board bring-up and performance tuning.
  • Contribute to example apps (e.g., predictive maintenance for sensors).

What you will bring:

  • Strong skills in C/C++ for embedded firmware.
  • Hands-on experience with BareMetal or RTOS (FreeRTOS, Zephyr).
  • Solid understanding of microcontroller architectures, memory, and peripherals.
  • Python for scripting, testing, and automation experience.
  • Experience porting TinyML or embedded ML frameworks.
  • Skilled in SDK or hardware-level development.
  • Exposure to RISC-V platforms.
  • Knowledge of schematic or PCB design.
  • Experience with firmware testing or CI/CD.

Why this role:

  • Build cutting-edge embedded ML solutions from the ground up.
  • Join a stable, product-focused R&D team.
  • Contribute to the commercialization of next-gen microcontrollers.
  • Long-term, low-bureaucracy environment with real impact.

Apply now or reach out to discuss how your experience could make an impact in this next-generation firmware development team.

E: aldwin@runtimerec.com

P: +61485988800

 

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Verification Engineer

IP Verification Engineer SoC Verification Engineer 2-5 Years Exp
Job Location: Adelaide, South Australia

A leading technology company supporting global semiconductor and embedded-systems suppliers is seeking Verification Engineers with a strong track record in the industry.

Based in Adelaide’s CBD, we’re looking for engineers who can bring:

  • Experience in Functional Verification experience across SoCs and block-level IP.
  • Strong capability in UVM and SystemVerilog.
  • Experience with SoC and C-based testing.
  • Familiarity with configuration-management tools such as Git.
  • Skill in RTL and gate-level simulation and debugging.
  • A habit of improving design methodologies and development processes.
  • A genuine interest in growing your technical range.

 

Highly valued skills include:

  • FPGA implementation and prototyping.
  • Broader configuration-management experience.
  • Processor microarchitecture knowledge.

 

If you’re driven by engineering depth and enjoy building reliable, high-performance verification environments, we’d like to hear from you.

 

Apply Now!

P: +61485988800

E: aldwin@runtimerec.com

 

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