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Senior Embedded Software Engineer
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Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Work Location: Kidlington, Oxfordshire Roster: Monday – Friday
Role Purpose
The Senior Embedded Software Engineer will take technical ownership of key software components and engineering practices within Elysia Embedded, a world-class battery software product.
The role involves designing, developing, optimising, maintaining, and verifying efficient, scalable embedded software—from architecture and model-based implementation through to system integration and release readiness.
The focus is on creatively transforming advanced battery algorithms into lightweight, production-ready embedded solutions that maximise battery performance, reliability, and lifespan.
Key Responsibilities
- Transform complex algorithms into resource-efficient embedded implementations through simplification, optimisation, and sound engineering judgement.
- Lead and contribute to scalable, maintainable, testable, and computationally efficient software architecture.
- Design, implement, verify, and review software units using model-based development, code generation, and automated testing.
- Integrate software components and verify system-level interactions through:
- Simulation
- Integration testing
- Debugging
- Issue resolution
- Analyse and optimise execution time, memory usage, numerical behaviour, and real-time performance.
- Improve software quality through:
- Standards, modelling guidelines, static analysis, peer reviews
- CI/CD
- Automated workflows
- Improve developer productivity through:
- Build systems
- Debugging tools
- Simulation frameworks
- CI/CD pipelines
- Automation
- Guide engineers through:
- Architecture discussions
- Model/design reviews
- Code reviews
- Troubleshooting
- Knowledge sharing
- Identify inefficiencies across:
- Software performance
- Workflows
- Processes
- Drive practical improvements.
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Qualifications and Experience
Essential
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. degree in a relevant STEM subject, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of relevant embedded software engineering experience, including:
- At least 3 years in model-based development, preferably in the automotive or aerospace industries.
- Ability to analyse technical trade-offs between:
- Algorithm accuracy
- Computational efficiency
- Maintainability
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to adapt academic concepts to practical implementations.
- Knowledge of:
- Embedded architectures
- Memory management
- Real-time systems
- Experience with:
- Version control
- CI/CD pipelines
- Automated testing frameworks
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative working style, with the ability to:
- Explain technical decisions clearly across:
- Software
- Algorithm
- Application
- Product teams
- Explain technical decisions clearly across:
- Proactive mindset to:
- Identify technical or process inefficiencies
- Drive improvements.
Beneficial
- Experience with battery state-estimation algorithms, such as:
- SOC, SoH, SoP
- Battery management systems
- Experience with:
- ASPICE
- ISO 26262
- Similar software development standards
- Familiarity with:
- Simulation frameworks
- Profiling tools
- Debugging in embedded environments
- Exposure to:
- Hardware/software co-validation, including:
- HIL (Hardware-in-the-Loop)
- SIL (Software-in-the-Loop)
- MIL (Model-in-the-Loop)
- PIL (Processor-in-the-Loop)
- Hardware/software co-validation, including:
- Experience providing:
- Technical guidance
- Design/model/code reviews
- Mentoring engineers
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Additional Responsibilities
This job description is not exhaustive, and the job holder will be required to carry out additional reasonable tasks of appropriate capability.
About Us
Be part of something big. Fortescue is leading the world with its plan to decarbonise iron ore operations, projects that harness renewable energy, and the development of transformative technology that will change our planet forever.
Our Commitment
- We celebrate individual strengths, and team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work.
- Inclusive culture: Our global workforce drives and promotes inclusivity in:
- The organisation
- The communities we interact with
- Diverse backgrounds celebrated and supported, including:
- First Nations Peoples
- People with disabilities
- LGBTQ+ community
- Gender diversity
- Neurodiverse individuals
- Cultural diversity
- Multiple age groups
- Intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics
We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
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How to Apply:
- Internal Candidates / Current Contractors: Apply via Success Factors Careers Portal.
- For further instructions: Visit the Fortescue Hub. Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early if a suitable pool of candidates is identified.
Note: Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, directly or through a third party.
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