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Software Control Engineer
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Software Control Engineer
Senior Software & Controls Engineer (Permanent) – East Midlands (Fully On-site)
Permanent, full-time Senior Software & Controls Engineer role in the East Midlands, 100% on-site. Focus is model-based controls, embedded software/firmware, and on-hardware validation in a regulated product development environment.
Key Responsibilities (keyword-heavy)
- Control system design, control strategies, control algorithms
- Model-Based Design (MBD) using MATLAB, Simulink, Stateflow
- Modelling and simulation, plant models, system-level and component-level simulation
- Auto-coding / model-to-code deployment onto embedded real-time control hardware
- Embedded software, firmware development, bare-metal C / embedded C
- Hardware integration, sensor/actuator bring-up, troubleshooting and fault-finding
- Comms/interfaces: CAN bus, SPI, serial protocols
- Verification & Validation (V&V), on-hardware testing, debug, data capture and analysis
- Process-led engineering: testing, issue/defect reporting, change control / configuration management
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- Degree (BEng/BSc or equivalent) in a relevant engineering discipline
- Strong hands-on capability across controls + embedded software + hardware integration
- Confident working in a regulated, quality-led development process (automotive/aerospace style environments)
- Clear written and verbal communication; able to explain complex technical concepts to different audiences
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