Embedded Software Engineer - Embedded C/C++

Embedded Software Engineer

+ 6 month initial contract role

+ £50 per hour

+ Hampshire based with some remote work

Key Skills:

+ Embedded C/C++

+ Safety critical SW experience

Job Summary

You will report to the Software Team Lead, where you will be part of a software team continuing development and maintenance for Aircraft Systems development.

The successful candidate will be responsible for working within a team environment and assisting with delivering all stages of the design and development of the software, from identifying requirements, through design, programming, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.

There will be a particular technical emphasis on the airborne software.

You will be subject to a BPSS check (including a criminal record check).

Tasks & Accountabilities

• Assist the Team Leader analyse and derive requirements from stakeholder needs or upper- level requirements, over the successive system decomposition levels.
• Assist with defining or amending requirements in compliance with quality criteria, avoiding over- and under- specification.
• Assist and Determine specificities of interface requirements.
• Assist in the Definition and justify the requirements allocation to the given system elements taking into account the architectural interfaces and constraints, (e.g. requirements constraining system architecture), ensuring requirements traceability.
• Assist with requirement changes, including impact analysis and requirements baseline establishment.
• Assist with Verifying that the sub-system, equipment and component's requirements are correctly and completely implemented.
• Implement design documents and software changes, including new and expanded functionality.
• Develop Airborne Software to appropriate coding standards.
• Ensure software meets requirements; comply with coding standards and unit test code modules using available test tools to determine static analysis of code implemented.

Experience Required:

• + Experience working with software development teams through the software development lifecycle.
• + Functional embedded C for safety related/critical systems, preferably in the Aerospace sector.
• + Python (for test scripts).
• + System level interfacing with Complex Electronic Hardware (FPGAs etc).
• + Embedded system experience with arm Cortex M series devices.
• + Requirements, design, test and software process documentation.

Other Useful skills and experience:

• + Experience in aviation, particularly flight control systems would be an advantage.
• + MISRA-C coding standard
• + Experience applying RTCA DO-178 preferred
• + Doors experience
• + Subversion SVN Tool experience (Change Control System)