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Hanwha Phasor
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Please note: This role will be onsite in our London office 4 days per week.


Job Overview:


We’re looking for a Software Engineer to take a key role within the software engineering team developing embedded software for a novel phased array antenna system for aviation, maritime and land satellite communication applications.


As part of a Central London-based company, the successful candidate will apply their technical skills, ability to learn, and experience to work within the team to rapidly design, develop, and test embedded C firmware (at the baremetal, RTOS, or application levels). The candidate will need to be able to work through the full development lifecycle, from specification, de-risking, prototyping, development, integration, and testing.


Technical Responsibilities:


  • Develop functional, reliable, performant, and well-architected firmware in embedded C to deliver on specifications at the feature level.
  • Develop new specifications for software features based on a good understanding of the System Architecture, System Requirements, schematics, and codebase.
  • Adhere to and learn best practice software engineering methodologies and tools within the software engineering team. Work within Software team quality procedures.
  • Work closely with other Software engineers and members of other teams to develop and test new software.
  • Learn and develop technical skills.


Organisational Responsibilities:


  • Design, develop, code, test and debug system software
  • Analyse and enhance efficiency, stability and scalability of system resources
  • Support software QA and optimize I/O performance
  • Interface with hardware design and development
  • Maintain appropriate documentation


Qualifications & Skills:


Essential:

  • Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or a related discipline with a significant software development content.
  • Software development in C/C++ (2+ years)
  • RTOS and real-time experience (preferable)
  • A commitment to continuous professional development, with a willingness to stay abreast of the latest advancements in software engineering.


Desirable:


  • Hardware debugging (logic analysers, oscilloscopes, debugger, trace, etc)
  • Prototyping and bring-up experience
  • ARM Cortex-M architecture (CMSIS)
  • RF Communications
  • Git
  • JIRA
  • Test Driven Development
  • Experience developing software for a product with safety certification requirements
  • Phase array antennas


This role involves having access to information which is controlled under U.S. export regulations (EAR/ITAR). A separate check will need to be completed prior to employment offer.

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