Role Overview
Join Our Vibrant & Growing Engineering Team
Want to join an international and growing development team that has the highest standards of technical and product design expertise, coupled with a focus on developing staff, recognising and celebrating success and a great working environment?
The Sperry Marine Engineering Team based in New Malden in the UK and Hamburg in Germany, have responsibility for the development and maintenance of Sperry Marine’s wide product portfolio, and ambitious development roadmap.
We are a truly multidisciplinary team, with engineers from electronics, software, mechanical, system engineering and system test backgrounds all working in integrated teams to develop best in class products and solutions.
To support our ambitious roadmap and growth plans we are actively increasing the size our teams, creating a great opportunity for a skilled Senior Principal Embedded Software Engineer to join us!
Key responsibilities of this role include:
1. Create embedded software for new products
2. Support product testing activities
3. Work in the Software team and collaborate with Hardware team
4. Participate in AGILE-based development.
5. Participate in code reviews and regular team meetings.
What do you get in return?
Sperry Marine offers you a career in an international business with many interesting global projects.
When you join the Company, you’ll also enjoy a range of attractive employee benefits:
6. Competitive salary with annual reviews.
7. Option for a compressed working pattern (alternate Fridays off)
8. Hybrid Working Policy
9. Up to 8% contributory pension scheme.
10. Up to 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays
11. Private Medical Healthcare Cover (dependant on level of role)
12. Ongoing training and development
13. A range of other benefits to support the health and wellbeing of you and your family such as Employee Assistance Programme, Bike Scheme, EV Car Scheme, Annual Leave Purchase Scheme and more.
Skills & Experience
Essential
14. Strong experience with both C# and C++ languages
15. Strong experience with Real-time multi-threaded software concepts
16. 6+ years experience as Embedded software engineer
Desirable
17. Build environment OpenEmbedded Bitbake Makefiles
18. Networking Experience with protocols (UDP, TCP/IP etc) Experience Analysis tools (e.g Wireshark)
19. Linux Kernel and CLI tools experience
20. BASH scripting experience
21. Python language experience
Advantageous
22. U-Boot concepts
23. Wt web GUI library familiarity
24. Knowledge of radar concepts
25. Experience of ASTERIX (cat240) Radar Data protocol
26. Knowledge of analogue devices RF transceiver integrations
Personal Characteristics
27. Good communicator and able to influence thinking/get point across
28. Able to present and summarise complex information to a wide audience
29. Self-sufficient and self-motivated approach
30. Able to assess priorities and order their own work
31. Able to work in tight deadlines
If you meet some but not all of the above criteria then we still want to hear from you, as we have a number of opportunities available and we may be able to match you to another role!
About Us
With over 100 years of history and expertise in navigation, we have established our self as a major global provider of navigation solutions, including radars, compass systems, steering systems, speed logs, integrated bridge and control systems. We take pride in our commitment to provide 24/7 support to all of our customers.
Our company grows because of our employees' dedication and commitment to achieving our mission, something we always remember. In return for working for us you will have access to a benefits package that provides you with flexibility to balance your professional career with your personal life, health & well-being benefits, discount schemes, pension benefits and investment in your future development.