Embedded Software Engineer
Summary
Develop and debug real-time embedded software in C++ using Rhapsody UML, write tests, and validate against requirements and ICDs for aviation systems.
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements:- Significant experience developing and debugging real-time software applications using C++.
- Considerable experience with Rhapsody UML or another model-driven development tool.
- Extensive experience developing functional and integration tests, including simulation and hardware testing.
- Proven experience developing and testing software to requirements and ICDs.
- Competence with MS Office tools and DOORS for reviewing and updating technical documentation.
- Working understanding of configuration management tools such as RTC/EWM.
- Knowledge of Python, Ada, or FreeRTOS would be highly beneficial.
- We need a can-do attitude, a proactive and adaptable approach, and strong communication skills.
- Develop embedded real-time software on Linux using Rhapsody and C++ in a multi-threaded application against software requirements and ICDs.
- Write unit and functional tests and carry out integration testing with target hardware.
- Adhere to agreed project planning and project quality processes.
- Use JIRA for project management and issue tracking.
- Work in a lab environment running software on target hardware.
- Contribute across the full software development life cycle and work with limited supervision.
- Ada
- Embedded
- FreeRTOS
- Hardware
- JIRA
- Linux
- Python
- Security
- UML
- C++
More:
We are a world leader in missile and missile systems, seeking an adaptable Embedded Software Engineer to join our growing Software team in Bristol. You will help develop mission-critical defence systems as part of a medium-sized team while also being empowered to work individually with little supervision. This is a 6-month contract role, working 37 hours per week, onsite in Bristol, with an umbrella pay rate of up to £70 per hour. Security clearance is required to start, and the role is inside IR35. We are Line Up Aviation, a specialist aviation and aerospace recruitment company operating globally for more than 30 years, working with some of the industrys best-known companies and upholding a culture of honesty and integrity.
last updated 32 week of 2026