Software Engineer

Role: Software Engineer

Rate of Pay: Please apply for further details 

Location: Farnborough - This will be a hybrid working role working from the Farnborough site and home

Length of Contract: 6 months (Probable extension after initial contract duration)

Working Pattern: 37 hours per week, Monday-Friday, Days

Travel: Possible travel to other UK sites to meet the business needs

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our client in Farnborough. You will report to the Software Team Lead, where you will be part of a software team continuing development and maintenance of Zephyr Software.

Zephyr is an ultra-light weight, solar electric aircraft, which is able to fly persistently, day and night in the stratosphere, for months at a time. The current single tail variant (Zephyr S) completed its successful maiden flight during Engineering Flight Trials (EFT) in Arizona USA in July and August 2018, achieving an endurance of 25 days, 23 hours and 57 minutes. It continues to pursue and break world records.

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).

Reporting To: Software Development Manager

· 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.

We appreciate that not everyone will have all the skills/experience listed below, and would welcome applications even if you do not meet all the requirements.

· 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.

· 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)

Education & Training: Educated to a degree standard or equivalent training and experience

Working Pattern: Monday to Friday days

Travel: Possible travel to other UK sites to meet the business needs

Extension: Probable extension after initial contract duration

Base of Work: This will be a hybrid working role working from the Farnborough site and home

Call the TARCG office on oo441392241335. or click the link below and apply for this position today!

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