Embedded Software Engineer
Bristol, full time onsite
£65ph, UMB, inside IR35
Initial 6-month contract
SC must be in place prior to starting this contract
Overview of department:
MBDA is 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.
Responsibilities:
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 to required standards and processes.
Skillset/experience required:
Minimal: (Good)
- Authoring Specifications through the full lifecycle: planning, design and test documents.
- Experience of working with formal requirements capture tool.
- Requirements Analysis Experience
- Knowledge of Source Configuration Control Processes (e.g., PVCS, RTC, GIT)
- Very Good attention to detail.
- Working with minimal supervision
- Ability to debug complex problems and be able to produce required documentation to achieve the required safety level.
- Significant previous experience of developing bare-metal embedded software using C/C++.
- Working in a team and with members from other disciplines e.g. Systems, Integration, Electronic
Required: (Better)
- Previous experience of development and verification of embedded software developed to high safety integrity level such as DO178C Level B or SIL-4 or equivalent standards.
- Specification & requirements 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 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.
Desirable: (Best)
- 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 RAPITA Systems Tool Suite
- Experience of Modelling and Ansys SCADE Tool Suite
- Knowledge and use of ALM such as JIRA or IBM Engineering Workflow Manager
- Creation and use of Virtual Machines (VMWare)
