Senior Software Engineer
Location: Southampton, UK (Hybrid – 3 days per week on-site)
There are easier ways to make a living.
But if you’re the kind of software engineer who prefers hard technical problems over incremental feature work, this might be worth your time.
You’ll be joining a small, high-calibre team developing software that underpins next-generation satellite and space communications systems. This is performance-critical, real-time software, where microseconds matter and design decisions have long-term consequences.
What you’ll be working on- Designing and developing high-performance C/C++ software for real-time wireless communication systems
- Building and optimising software on Linux, targeting x86 and ARM platforms
- Working close to the hardware on latency-sensitive signal-processing pipelines
- Contributing across the full product lifecycle, from architecture through to deployment
- Strong commercial experience with C/C++ on Linux in complex systems
- A solid understanding of real-time or high-performance software behaviour
- Confidence solving problems where documentation is thin and trade-offs matter
- Exposure to wireless, telecoms, or signal processing is beneficial
- Engineering quality is non-negotiable
- Small team, real ownership, and technical influence
- Problems that require thought, not repetition
- Work that directly impacts systems deployed in space
The work is demanding. The standards are high. And the payoff is helping shape technology that operates at the limits of performance.
If that sounds like the kind of challenge you’re looking for, let’s talk.
Yoh Solutions Ltd (a Day & Zimmermann company) are electronic engineering recruitment specialists sourcing high-calibre permanent and interim engineering talent globally.