Embedded C Software Engineer – Development

World Class Defence Organisation is currently looking to recruit an Embedded C Software Engineer on an initial 6 month contract. Rate

£70.00 per hour

Stevenage

Onsite – however a 4 day working week (Monday to Thursday) is available.

37 Hours per week

Hours worked over 37 hours per week will be calculated at ‘time and a quarter’

6 Months (initially and then ongoing and long-term thereafter)

Inside IR35 (Umbrella)

We are a world leader in missile and missile systems looking for a highly capable and adaptable Engineers to join our Development Facility in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

You will be responsible for developing the software through the full lifecycle for safety related real-time systems application software for the next generation of Missile Systems. This is a technical hands-on role working the full software lifecycle.

You will be 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

• Ability to debug complex problems and be able to produce required documentation to achieve the required safety level.
• Authoring Specifications through the full lifecycle: planning, design and test documents.
• Requirements Analysis Experience
• Knowledge of Source Configuration Control Processes (e.g., PVCS, RTC, GIT)
• Working with minimal supervision.
• Experience of working with formal requirements capture tool.
• Significant previous experience of developing bare-metal embedded software using C/C++.

• Previous experience of development and verification of embedded software written in C and developed at a high safety integrity level (SIL4 / DO178C Level B or equivalent)
• Specification 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 CPP Unit or an 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.

• Significant experienced in developing software to DO178C Level
  
  B.
• Knowledge of Defence standards and Micro-controller technologies
• Testing on Development Cards with a test environment or bare-metal with special builds
• Experience using test systems
  • RAPITA Tool experience.
• Knowledge and use of ALM
• Creation and use of Virtual Machines (VMWare)