Software Engineer

My client is looking for a Software Engineer to join on them on a 6 month contract. As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for working within a team environment and assisting with delivering all stages of the design and development of the software, from identifying requirements, through design, programming, deployment, and ongoing maintenance. There will be a particular technical emphasis on the airborne software.

Role: Software Engineer
Pay: £50.00 per hour via Umbrella (Inside IR35)
Location: Farnborough, Hants
Contract: 6 months
Hours: 37 hours per week Monday – Friday (Hybrid is an option at business discretion, 3 days onsite and 2 days WFH)
Security Clearance: BPSS

Job Summary
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join Airbus in Farnborough. You will report to the Software Team Lead, where you will be part of a software team continuing development and maintenance of Zephyr Software.
Zephyr is an ultra-light weight, solar electric aircraft, which is able to fly persistently, day and night in the stratosphere, for months at a time. The current single tail variant (Zephyr S) completed its successful maiden flight during Engineering Flight Trials (EFT) in Arizona USA in July and August 2018, achieving an endurance of 25 days, 23 hours and 57 minutes. It continues to pursue and break world records.

Job Profile

• Assist the Team Leader analyse and derive requirements from stakeholder needs or upper- level requirements, over the successive system decomposition levels.
• Assist with defining or amending requirements in compliance with quality criteria, avoiding over- and under- specification.
• Assist and Determine specificities of interface requirements.
• Assist in the Definition and justify the requirements allocation to the given system elements taking into account the architectural interfaces and constraints, (e.g. requirements constraining system architecture), ensuring requirements traceability.
• Assist with requirement changes, including impact analysis and requirements baseline establishment.
• Assist with Verifying that the sub-system, equipment and component’s requirements are correctly and completely implemented.
• Implement design documents and software changes, including new and expanded functionality.
• Develop Airborne Software to appropriate coding standards.
• Ensure software meets requirements; comply with coding standards and unit test code modules using available test tools to determine static analysis of code implemented.

Skills/Experience Required

• Experience working with software development teams through the software development lifecycle.
• Functional embedded C for safety related/critical systems, preferably in the Aerospace sector.
• Python (for test scripts).
• System level interfacing with Complex Electronic Hardware (FPGAs etc).
• Embedded system experience with arm Cortex M series devices.
• Requirements, design, test and software process documentation.

Other Useful skills and experience:

• Experience in aviation, particularly flight control systems would be an advantage.
• MISRA-C coding standard
• Experience applying RTCA DO-178 preferred.
• DOORS experience
• Subversion SVN Tool experience (Change Control System)

Education & Training
Essential – Strong experience in a similar role

If you are interested in applying for this position and you meet the requirements, please send your updated CV to: Sarah Budd at Line Up Aviation
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