Software Development Engineer

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Job Description

We are looking for an Embedded Software Engineer to join Airbus Defence and Space in Portsmouth. You will join our Modem team within the Product Engineering group.

The Modem team is undertaking the design and implementation of a satellite communications Software Defined Radio (SDR) modem. You will be part of a small multi-disciplinary team containing software, system, firmware and infrastructure engineers.

You will research and develop aspects of modem products and associated communications systems, using your experience in embedded software within complex systems.

You may not have a complete understanding of the engineering techniques and technical aspects of satellite modem systems, but we’ll be happy to teach you through a combination of working with our existing team and by training.

You will be subject to a BPSS check (including a criminal record check).

Tasks And Accountabilities

Your main tasks and responsibilities will include:

• Developing software aspects to support the operation of satellite modem products based on Software Defined Radio (SDR) technologies.
• Definition, design, implementation and integration activities associated with these solutions.
• Work in response to requirements, defining sub-systems, communicating risk and specifying test and verification techniques.
• Occasionally diagnose software problems in the laboratory prototyping environment.
• Develop and maintain skills to support on-going and future development.
  
  

Your role could involve very occasional travel within the UK and worldwide.

Required Skills

• Proven modern C++ experience in an embedded Linux environment
• Analytical mind with excellent problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills are a pre-requisite of a collaborative team-working environment
• Knowledge and application of GNU/Linux toolsets
• Software design using UML
  
  

Desired Skills

• Experience of using analysis tools (e.g. clang-tidy, cppcheck, perf)
• Experience of automated test frameworks (e.g. Robot Framework, Google Test, Catch2)
• Experience of Atlassian Jira, Confluence, BitBucket
• Experience of developing with System-on-Chip (SoC) technologies
• Technical understanding of RF communications, especially over satellite
  
  

What Airbus Can Offer You

• A competitive salary with annual profit share
• an ever growing list of company benefits including enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
• Very strong, very real career development options across our transnational, market leading company.
• A hybrid working pattern of 2 to 3 days per week in the office and 2 to 3 days remotely
• Flexible hours - 37 per week with no core hours on Friday afternoons!
  
  

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

Please let us know if you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for the selection process – you can share this with the Recruitment Business Partner who gets in touch if you are invited to interview. Examples of this may include (but is not exclusive to) accessible facilities; auxiliary aids; room layout etc. Any information disclosed will be treated in the strictest confidence.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company

AIRBUS Defence and Space Limited

Contract Type

Permanent Contract / CDI / Unbefristet / Contrato indefinido

Experience Level

Professional / Expérimenté(e) / Professionell / Profesional

Job Family

Software Engineering

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At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.