Principal Software Engineer
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Contract Duration: 12 months
Rate: £63.83 p/h PAYE (£73.11 inc. holiday rate) OR £87.04 p/h Umbrella
We seek an engineer with recent high-integrity or safety-critical industry experience (defence, aerospace, or similar), or eligible for UK security clearance.
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Role Overview
An experienced Principal Software Engineer is required to join a well-established Test Engineering community, supporting advanced defence and aerospace programmes. The role focuses on developing software solutions for complex test systems used in cutting-edge radar and aerospace platforms.
The successful candidate will play a key technical leadership role, contributing to the design, development, and delivery of high-quality test software while working closely with multi-disciplinary engineering teams and stakeholders.
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Key Responsibilities
1. Design, develop, and deliver software solutions within defined work packages, ensuring stakeholder requirements are met
2. Elicit, analyse, prioritise, and manage stakeholder needs to deliver optimal technical solutions
3. Produce high-quality, robust, and well-documented code, ensuring outputs are maintained under configuration ma...