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Software Engineer | Space Sector
Location & Contract: 📍 Manchester or Stevenage | 4 days on-site 💷 £300–£400 per day (Inside IR35) � 6-Month Contract (Initial Duration)
The Role
A leading space sector organiser is seeking a Software Engineer to support the development and delivery of advanced space systems.
Working as part of a growing software team, you will play a vital role in driving software development—from requirements to delivery—ensuring products meet rigorous reliability standards in some of the world's most extreme environments.
This is a greenfield opportunity for proactive, team-focused engineers who thrive in high-intensity environments. You'll shape initial system requirements and architecture, then build product-level software from scratch for on-board and ground test systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop embedded software for payloads and ground test systems
- Translate requirements into software designs, contributing to requirements, architecture, design, and test documentation
- Document APIs and code at an appropriate technical level
- Estimate resources and timelines for complete end-to-end software solutions (internal and external-facing)
- Identify root-cause issues, develop test cases, and deliver robust solutions
- Knowledge-sharing & collaboration: Proactively share insights with software teams, validation engineers, and systems groups
- Build and maintain interface layers between high-level applications and hardware components (modems, wireless networks, sensors)
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What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with deep embedded C++ expertise (Linux-based systems)
- Proven experience in a high-intensity sector (Space, Aerospace, Defence, or Automotive)
- Hands-on familiarity with formal development methodologies and collaborative tooling:
- Version control (Git/GitLab)
- CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins)
- Static/dynamic analysis (SonarQube)
- Artifact repositories (Nexus)
- Testing frameworks (GTest, GMock)
- Bonus: Knowledge of industry standards (ECSS-E, MISRA CXX, or CERT C)
- Advantageous: Experience with:
- Computer networking or wireless telecommunications
- DPDK, Linux kernel, or driver development
- Python (for scripting/test automation)
- Nice-to-have: Understanding of electronic hardware (phased array antennas, processor systems, etc.)
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- Identity verification
- Criminal record review
- 3+ years’ employment history confirmation
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