SC Cleared Embedded Software Engineer

Job Title: SC Cleared Embedded Software Engineer
Location: Remote with some travel to Malvern and Farnborough
Duration: 6 months with likely extension
Rate: Up to 650 per day via an approved umbrella company

Project Description & Role Summary:
We are looking for a Senior Embedded Software Engineer for developing software in a cutting edge radar system. You will be solving technically challenging problems and may work on a variety of activities and tasks, as part of a full scale system development lasting up to 1 year. You will work throughout the engineering lifecycle, applying rigorous engineering practices; analysing, designing, implementing, testing, supporting and maintaining solutions that solve the mission-critical problems of our customers.

Responsibilities & Outputs:
Working as part of a small embedded and application software engineering team, you will be reporting to the Project Technical Lead, responsible for system requirements development, architectural design, detailed design, implementation and verification of embedded C/C++ software.

• Responsible for designing and developing highly efficient and robust software.
• Responsible for the implementation, integration, debugging and formal verification activities.
• Responsible for timely and accurate communication of task status. Propose ideas and solutions to technical and project wide problems.
• Responsible for ensuring deliverables are on-time and are of production quality.

Essential skills, knowledge, capabilities etc

• Degree in a computer science, engineering or maths subject or demonstrable equivalent experience
• At least 5 years' embedded C and C++ software development on Linux.
• Experience of working in a rigorous engineering environment using configuration management and change management processes and tools.
• Knowledge and experience of the specification, design and implementation of complex software solutions.
• Experience of source control using git.
• Experience of developing for embedded platforms, including interfacing to FPGAs over PCIe.
• Experience using software design, development environment and test tools such as Enterprise Architect, Visual Studio, etc.
• Exposure to software designs using UML.
• Excellent verbal and written technical English communications skills.

Desirable skills, knowledge, capabilities etc

• Experience developing for Ubuntu or other Debian based distros.

• Skilled in other software languages and frameworks e.g. C#.
• Optimisation of hardware interfaces for software performance.
• Working on mixed software/FPGA systems.
• Working in an Agile development team.

If this is the role for you please submit your CV at your earliest convenience