Software Engineer — Test Equipment Software

MBDA is looking for Software Engineers to join the Software Resource and Capability Team, working on Test Equipment software in support of manufacturing, production test, integration and wider engineering activities.

£40,000 – £65,000 depending on experience

4 to 5 Days a week in the office

British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship.

Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

• Company bonus
  :
  Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
• Pension
  : maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Overtime
  : opportunity for paid overtime
• Flexi Leave
  :
  Up to 15 additional days
• Flexible working
  :
  We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
• Enhanced parental leave
  : offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave –enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
• Facilities
  :
  Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more

This is an opportunity to join a growing Test Equipment Software capability supporting MBDA's UK test and manufacturing environment.

Test Equipment Software plays a critical role in enabling the configuration, verification, validation and production testing of MBDA products. The software developed and supported by the team is used alongside specialist Test Equipment hardware to prove product conformance, support manufacturing output, investigate test issues and maintain reliable test capability across development and manufacturing environments.

The role is practical, varied and production (manufacturing) facing. You will develop, maintain, support and improve software used within complex test systems, including test applications, automated test sequences, diagnostic tools, equipment interfaces, data capture, configuration tools and software that interacts with hardware, firmware, operating systems and production test environments.

This is not a role limited to writing code in isolation. It suits engineers who enjoy solving practical engineering problems, working close to real equipment, understanding how software behaves in physical test environments, and helping build reliable, supportable and well documented test solutions.

The team will support both stability and improvement: ensuring existing Test Equipment software remains reliable and available, while identifying opportunities to standardise, automate, improve diagnostics, reduce recurring issues and strengthen long‑term supportability.

You may be involved in:

• Developing and maintaining software used to control, configure, verify and validate MBDA products through Test Equipment
• Supporting production & manufacturing facing Test Equipment software and associated test environments
• Investigating software, hardware, firmware, configuration, interface and integration issues affecting test capability
• Working with engineers and operators to understand symptoms, reproduce issues, gather evidence and support root‑cause analysis
• Supporting software updates, maintenance activities, and controlled changes to Test Equipment software
• Improving documentation, support notes, runbooks and knowledge capture for critical Test Equipment systems
• Helping identify recurring issues, support risks, software dependencies and improvement opportunities

We are looking for software or electronics engineer with transferable skills into software development and support for Test Equipment solutions.

• Strong ability to write software in languages such as C, C++ or C#
• Some Python experience would be useful but is not essential
• A practical engineering mindset and an interest in software that interacts with hardware, equipment, firmware, operating systems or real‑world test environments
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving…