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.