Software Engineer
Posted 4 days ago by Akkodis
Negotiable
Undetermined
Onsite
Stevenage, Hertfordshire, UK
Summary: Software Engineer needed for an on-site contract in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, with a multi-national defence company. The role involves delivering on-board software for next-generation missile systems, requiring hands-on work in software architecture, design, implementation, and testing. Candidates should have experience in developing embedded software and working with formal requirements capture tools. Attention to detail and the ability to debug complex problems are essential for this position.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver on-board software for next-generation missile systems.
- Architect, design, implement, and test missile subsystem software to required standards and processes.
Key Skills:
- Authoring specifications through the full life cycle: planning, design, and test documents.
- Experience with formal requirements capture tools.
- Requirements analysis experience.
- Knowledge of source configuration control processes (e.g., PVCS, RTC, GIT).
- Very good attention to detail.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Ability to debug complex problems and produce required documentation for safety levels.
- Significant experience in developing bare-metal embedded software using C/C++.
- Experience working in a team with members from other disciplines (e.g., Systems, Integration, Electronics).
- Previous experience of development and verification of embedded software to high safety integrity levels (e.g., DO178C Level B or SIL-4).
- Specification and requirements creation and compliance recording in DOORS.
- Working knowledge of C/C++ for testing special builds and focused code reviews.
- Unit testing using LDRA, RAPITA, or equivalent testing tools.
- Understanding of code coverage techniques and strategies.
- Experience working in a lab environment with live equipment conducting system tests.
- Significant experience in developing software to DO178C Level B.
- Knowledge of defence standards and microcontroller technologies.
- Testing on development cards with a test environment or bare-metal with special builds.
- Experience using RAPITA Systems Tool Suite.
- Experience with modelling and Ansys SCADE Tool Suite.
- Knowledge and use of ALM tools such as JIRA or IBM Engineering Workflow Manager.
- Creation and use of virtual machines (VMWare).
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Stevenage
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Software Engineer required for on site contract at Stevenage, Hertfordshire for multi-national defence company.
Responsibilities:
Responsible for delivering the on-board software for the next generation of Missile Systems. This is a hands-on role and will involve architecting, designing, implementing and testing missile subsystem software to required standards and processes.
Skillset/experience required:
Minimal: (Good)
- Authoring Specifications through the full life cycle: planning, design and test documents.
- Experience of working with formal requirements capture tool.
- Requirements Analysis Experience
- Knowledge of Source Configuration Control Processes (eg, PVCS, RTC, GIT)
- Very Good attention to detail.
- Working with minimal supervision
- Ability to debug complex problems and be able to produce required documentation to achieve the required safety level.
- Significant previous experience of developing bare-metal Embedded software using C/C++.
- Working in a team and with members from other disciplines eg Systems, Integration, Electronics
Required: (Better)
- Previous experience of development and verification of Embedded software developed to high safety integrity level such as DO178C Level B or SIL-4 or equivalent standards.
- Specification & requirements creation and compliance recording in DOORS.
- Working knowledge of C/C++ for testing special builds and focussed code reviews.
- Unit Testing using LDRA, RAPITA or equivalent testing tool.
- Understanding of Code Coverage and techniques/strategies used to cover/justify shortfall
- Working in a lab environment with live equipment (PSUs, Scopes, Logic Analysers etc.) conducting system tests.
Desirable: (Best)
- Significant experienced in developing software to DO178C Level B.
- Knowledge of Defence standards and Microcontroller technologies
- Testing on Development Cards with a test environment or bare-metal with special builds
- Experience using RAPITA Systems Tool Suite
- Experience of Modelling and Ansys SCADE Tool Suite
- Knowledge and use of ALM such as JIRA or IBM Engineering Workflow Manager
- Creation and use of Virtual Machines (VMWare)
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