Senior Engineer Software

About EDGE

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Support system-level specifications and technical requirements; maintain software development and integration plans and author software requirements documentation.
• Design software architectures and interface definitions and develop embedded, real-time software.
• Establish software processes aligned with project requirements and industry standards.
• Build and maintain integration test environments, procedures, verification strategies, and test plans.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary integration and ensure software, firmware, and hardware integration.
• Lead design reviews and technical assessments; provide technical direction and oversight.
• Resolve delivery-impacting technical and operational issues and drive continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance with defence, aerospace, and safety-critical standards and maintain quality, security, regulatory, and documentation standards.
• Keep current with evolving technology, engineering methodologies, and defence industry trends.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• At least 7 years of defence, aerospace, or military systems software engineering experience.
• Strong embedded and real-time software development experience.
• Expert-level skills in C, C++, and Python.
• Experience with bare-metal development on ARM-based SoCs and microcontrollers, low-level drivers, and first-stage bootloaders.
• Experience with requirements definition and implementation, software test planning and execution, and software-firmware integration.
• Practical experience with DO-178C, DO-254, MIL-STD-1553, and MISRA; experience applying military software engineering standards and processes.
• Experience developing on Xilinx platforms; familiarity with FPGA systems, PS-PL interfaces, inter-processor communications, and high-performance embedded architectures.
• English proficiency is required for roles unless otherwise stated.

EDGE offerings

• EDGE describes access to learning academies and digital learning platforms, career support, and opportunities to collaborate with international colleagues.
• Competitive tax-free salaries are described; benefits may include family visas, annual flights, medical insurance, and children's education allowances, depending on role and seniority.