Embedded C Software Engineer Spacecraft technology

Embedded C Software Engineer

Guildford / Hybrid

Standard 8 is working with an engineering team that builds embedded software for spacecraft and low orbit systems.

These are real platforms, flying in genuinely hostile conditions. Think NASA, think SpaceX and you're on the right lines.

This is not app-layer work dressed up as embedded. You'll be writing hardcore C close to the metal: hardware interfaces, tight timing constraints, comms protocols, real-time behaviour, and the messy integration problems that come with all of it. When the hardware is in orbit, the software has to be right, so there's very little room for guesswork.

You'll sit in a multidisciplinary team where software, electronics, systems and mission delivery all overlap. It moves quickly and the bar is high, because the software has to hold up when it actually counts.

The role

You'll develop embedded C for mission-critical systems and own it end to end: design it, build it, test it, integrate it, and support it once it's running.

The focus is robust, low-level software that talks straight to hardware. Day to day that means reading technical requirements, working out how the system really behaves, writing clean C, debugging the integration problems nobody else wants, and doing all of it inside a structured engineering process.