World Class Defence Organisation based in Stevenage is currently looking to recruit an Embedded C Software Engineer subcontractor on an initial 6 month contract. This role can be worked on a 4 day week basis.
Hourly Rate: £68.00ph (Umbrella).
Overtime Rate: Hours worked over the standard 37 hours per week, will be paid at ‘time and a quarter’
Location: Stevenage
Hybrid / Remote working: The role will likely be onsite 4 days per week. A 4 day working week is OK (Monday to Thursday).
Duration: 6 Months with very likely extension. Contracts are often ongoing and long-term thereafter.
IR35 status: Inside IR35 (Umbrella)
Interview process: One stage video interview
Embedded C Software Engineer Job Description:
Join a growing Software team in Stevenage, working as part of a dynamic team to develop, test and deliver innovative solutions by exploiting a wide portfolio of software technologies. You will work as part of a small team and be empowered to work individually with little supervision.
You will need to be able to work independently and be self driven whilst providing some technical leadership. You will need to be very proactive and comfortable working with teams outside of the SW department, and be able to develop embedded SW in C and be able to work in a lab based environment using various test tools such as scopes, logic analysers, bespoke test equipment and host based testing.
Responsibilities:
An Embedded Software C Engineer capable of developing, integrating and testing embedded Software
Producing test requirements & test scripts for Unit, Subsystem and System level testing on both host and target platforms
Running tests, analysing results and using target test facilities such as debuggers, probes, logic analysers and oscilloscopes
Documentation and Design work in UML
Skillset/experience required:
Experience of the C Programming Language
Experience of testing software products for ARM based multi-core processing platforms
Experience of communications protocols (e.g. SPI, UART, Ethernet, PCI-Express)
Experience of DOORS
Experience of test tools and techniques in both host and target environments
Experience of test tools such as LDRA or equivalent for host testing
Experience in model-based development, either in SysML/UML
Knowledge of Real Time Operating Systems such as PikeOS or FreeRTOS
Bare metal programming