Embedded Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Portsmouth – 6 month contract – Pay rate £47.25 p/h PAYE basic (£54.12 p/h including holiday pay) or £62.50 p/h Umbrella

The team is undertaking the design and implementation of a satellite communications Software Defined Radio (SDR) modem. You will be part of a small multi-disciplinary team containing software, system, firmware and infrastructure engineers. There will be scope in the future to work on further developments as project needs arise.

You will research and develop aspects of modem products and associated communications systems, using your experience in software within complex systems.

Job Profile

• Developing software aspects to support the operation of satellite modem products based on

Software Defined Radio (SDR) technologies.

• Definition, implementation, verification and validation activities associated with these solutions.
• Work in response to requirements, defining sub-systems, communicating risk and specifying test and verification techniques.
• Occasionally diagnose software problems in the laboratory prototyping environment.
• Develop and maintain skills to support on-going and future development.

Skills Required

Essential:

• Proven modern C++ software engineering on Linux platforms to a high standard
• Proven modern Java software engineering on Linux/Windows platforms to a high standard
• Knowledge of device management interfaces (e.g. SNMP, Web) for design, implementation and test
• Knowledge of working with Git for version control and Eclipse CDT for development
• Knowledge and application of inter-process communication and techniques

Desirable:

• Use of system and software modelling tools such as Enterprise Architect (SysML / UML)
• Use of unit and integration test tools (e.g. Google Test, Robot Framework)
• Prior working in an Agile or Scrum environment would be beneficial (e.g. Atlassian Jira, Confluence, BitBucket)
• Proven ability in user interface design, implementation and test using HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Space, Aerospace, Communications or Radar background.

Additional information

Please note, due to the sensitive nature of the projects involved, all candidates must be capable of gaining a UK MOD Security Clearance to SC level. If you are not currently SC cleared the client will sponsor a new application and you can start while this is pending.

This role shall operate inside IR35.