Principal Software Engineer Level 6

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Principal Software Engineer

Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Contract Duration: 12 months

Rate: £63.83 p/h PAYE (£73.11 inc. holiday rate) OR £87.04 p/h Umbrella

We seek an engineer with recent high-integrity or safety-critical industry experience (defence, aerospace, or similar), or eligible for UK security clearance.

Role Overview

An experienced Principal Software Engineer is required to join a well-established Test Engineering community, supporting advanced defence and aerospace programmes. The role focuses on developing software solutions for complex test systems used in cutting-edge radar and aerospace platforms. xkybehq

The successful candidate will play a key technical leadership role, contributing to the design, development, and delivery of high-quality test software while working closely with multi-disciplinary engineering teams and stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deliver software solutions within defined work packages, ensuring stakeholder requirements are met
• Elicit, analyse, prioritise, and manage stakeholder needs to deliver optimal technical solutions
• Produce high-quality, robust, and well-documented code, ensuring outputs are maintained under configuration ma
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