Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Senior Software Engineer – Wotton under Edge, up to £48,000 depending on experience. Renishaw's Machine Tool Products leads the market in delivering innovative, high accuracy measurement solutions to CNC machining processes around the world. The ongoing innovation of our high precision measurement devices has created a requirement for a new Senior Software Engineer to help us develop the programming and data analysis tools necessary to bring these products to market.

This position will form part of a small team of software engineers, developing and maintaining software products written in C++ targeted at an embedded Linux platform. The team has an excellent working atmosphere and uses an Agile development approach.

• Contribute to the design and development of software applications and libraries
• Develop algorithms relating to geometry fitting and coordinate system transformations
• Assist in the requirement capture and specification of new applications
• Help deliver customer-facing applications
• Assist in the deployment of customer projects

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in a STEM discipline with strong mathematical aptitude
• High level C++ programming language experience
• Python programming experience
• Experience using and developing software for Microsoft Windows
• Experience of writing and debugging complex multithreaded applications
• Knowledge of ATL, COM, MFC and writing GUI applications for Windows
• Experience using the Linux operating system
• Experience developing software products for embedded industrial applications

• CNC machine tool controller software API knowledge (Fanuc, Siemens, OKUMA and Mazak)
• Understanding of process control and metrology on machine tools
• Understanding of CNC machine tools and spindle probing
• Ability to write and understand G-Code programs for CNC machine tools
• Trained to operate CNC machine tools on the shop floor
• Experience of using CNC machine tool simulation systems

The successful applicant will be a problem solver who works well in a collaborative team environment. There is also an R&D element to the role, so scientific thinking is occasionally required. The role could develop to have some customer focus, so applicants should have a good balance of technical ability and assured presentation.

When you join Renishaw, we are committed to your future career. We believe in developing our people’s skills and promoting them internally. We offer a benefits package that includes a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, subsidised onsite restaurants and coffee shops, free parking, a car sharing scheme and 24 hour fitness centres (not available at all sites).

We promote a healthy work-life balance with a hybrid working policy offering a combination of home and office-based working where appropriate. Other benefits include a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join BUPA Renishaw Health Trust and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.

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