Pay rate up to £44.95 per hour PAYE and up to £60.00 per hour through an Umbrella company.
An experienced Software Engineer C/C++ / Linux / Real Time is required to work on a contract assignment for 6-12 months, with the possibility of a further extension supporting our prestigious Defence client based at their site in Stevenage.
Overview of your role and the department you will be assigned to:
You would be part of a small, multi-skilled team, doing complex technical work and experiencing a wide variety of technologies and engineering disciplines. The UK HWIL team is part of a wider, integrated, international HWIL team conducting similar activities in France and Italy, where sharing of knowledge, tools and techniques is strongly promoted.
Your responsibilities will include but not limited to:
- This role focuses on design, implementation and support to software items used within the HWIL facility. These software items vary between software to control mathematical models with input/output interfaces in real time through to software for performing data analysis and visualisation.
- This role will also provide the opportunity to work 'hands on' with sophisticated test equipment and missile hardware. Unlike many COTS real time Hardware in the Loop software products, MBDA produces its own Linux PC based toolsets as our needs go well beyond any COTS products currently available.
You will have the following skills and experience to carry out your duties:
- Strong ability and experience of software development, ideally using C, C++ or similar
- Experience developing within the Linux environment.
- Good problem solving skills
- Be pro-active and be capable of working on their own initiative with minimum supervision
- Able to work with varied engineering teams
- Desirable:
- Experience of Integrating hardware and software.
- Experience with multi-threaded software products.
- Experience of driver level software development.
- Experience using Matlab/Simulink
- Understanding of real time computing systems
- Understanding of mathematical modelling concepts
- Ability to visualise and analyse complex systems
The role is based in Stevenage which offers excellent transport links, is in close proximity to London Stansted Airport and is commutable from Hitchen, Letchworth Garden City, Welwyn Garden City, Hatfield, Hertford, Bishop's Stortford, Hoddesdon and Harlow.
Due to the nature of the work our client is involved with, suitable candidates will already be SC cleared or eligible to gain this level of clearance.
Guidant Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
