Senior Software Engineer

Cyber Business

Our Cyber business unit is at the forefront of pioneering advanced cryptographic and key management solutions, facilitating the confidential exchange of vital information for customers operating at both tactical and strategic echelons. Join our team and participate in the innovation that ensures the highest security and trust worldwide.

Job Description

Working in a small multi-disciplined engineering team develop innovative solutions to complex customer problems ranging from early research to full product development. Work flexibly across a range of frameworks and coding languages to deliver rapid prototypes and demonstrators. Take these concepts into more mature solutions, leading to a full product release.

Responsible for / Key responsibilities

• Work across the development lifecycle to design, implement and test solutions to customer problems.
  
  
• Develop software targeting a range of areas from bare-metal MCU, signal processing, Embedded Linux, GUI development on Windows, Linux and mobile; data analytics using Jupyter notebooks.
  
  
• Program in a range of languages appropriate to the solution ranging from Rust, C/C++ to Python and Web Development frameworks.
  
  
• Work / interact with FPGAs, electronic design and mechanical design.
  
  
• Work closely with team-members in an agile fashion achieving a balanced approach to requirement, schedule and cost.
  
  
• Generate appropriate documentation from requirements, design and testing material to support developments.
  
  
• Manage security of information as defined in the Security manual to ensure compliance with Government regulations.
  
  Role requirements
  
  
• Essential:
  
  
  • Willing and able to obtain, and maintain, SC security clearance.
    
    
  • Willing and able to obtain, and maintain, DV security clearance (following attainment of SC clearance).
    
    Qualifications / skills required
    
    
• Essential:
  
  
  • Degree in an engineering, mathematical or science-based subject or equivalent experience.
    
    
  • Experience of at least one of the following;
    
    
    • Embedded Linux application, kernel and/or driver development.
      
      
    • C / C++ or Rust
      
      
  • Experience of best practice software development processes/lifecycles
    
    
  • Experience of Object Oriented Design and Design Patterns
    
    
  • Experience of software testing and design for test
    
    
• Desirable:
  
  
  • GUI development frameworks such as eGUI, GTK. Tauri.
    
    
  • Yocto, Petalinux and uBoot.
    
    
  • Python, Jupyter Notebooks or Matlab.
    
    
  • Web Development languages (HTML, Javascript, Typescript, React).
    
    
  • IOS/Android development.
    
    
  • Communications protocols – TCP, QUIC, WiFi.
    
    
  • GNU Radio and Software Defined Radios.
    
    
  • FPGAs and Exposure to Hardware
    
    
  • UML design and tools such as Enterprise Architect