Software Engineer

Salary: £45,000 - 50,000 per year

• Strong C or C++ development experience
• Experience with a scripting language such as Python, Groovy or Bash
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and an interest in performance optimisation
• Experience developing for real-time embedded systems and Linux
• Knowledge of SIMD, FPGA or DSP-based hardware acceleration
• Understanding of signal processing and optimisation techniques
• Experience with FPGA toolchains, particularly Xilinx Vivado
• Exposure to O-RAN architecture and fronthaul protocols such as eCPRI
• Experience working with ARM-based platforms

• Develop software used to run and test 5G NR PHY algorithms
• Develop and optimise platform-specific code for embedded systems
• Apply SIMD, multi-threading and hardware acceleration techniques
• Integrate PHY algorithms with ARM-based platforms and boards
• Improve and maintain CI testing across the platform
• Support interoperability testing with customers, vendors and operators
• Work closely with hardware, system architecture and system-test teams
• Contribute to technical reviews and customer-facing activities

• ARM
• Bash
• Embedded
• FPGA
• Groovy
• Hardware
• Support
• Linux
• Python
• C++

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We are an innovative technology business at the forefront of 5G and wireless communications, based in Southampton. We are growing our software team and offer the opportunity to work on cutting-edge 5G technology, tackling challenging problems in performance, embedded systems and hardware acceleration. You will work closely with software, hardware, architecture and system-test teams on high-performance 5G technology.

last updated 36 week of 2026