Senior Software Engineer (Navigation)

Sonardyne are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their team. As part of this role you will be the domain expert for one or more features or functions within a product, you will need to have deep knowledge of one or more technical stacks and / or algorithms within the navigation domain. 

You will closely partner with other team members and technical leads across engineering to plan, develop, test, and deliver software for a range of products.

Specific Responsibilities:

•    Embedded Software Systems
•    Understand the deployment of real-time operating systems for low latency sensing, computation, and communication.
•    Design, develop, and debug complex embedded systems utilising a broad range of communication protocols and peripherals.
•    Hardware in the loop testing, debugging, and validation.
•    Contribute to architecture concepts, navigation tasks, and development projects as part of a cross-functional engineering team.
•    Identify opportunities for software efficiency improvements through code re-use across a varied range of products and projects.
•    Keep up to date on technical changes in their area(s) of technical speciality.
•    Partner closely with other members across the engineering department to enable the fusion of hardware and software to add value to the customer.
•    Able to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical team members to enable quick decision making within the business.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:

•    C/C++ (Object oriented coding) 
•    Able to code at expert in their C & C++ targeted at Linux based embedded systems. 
•    Experience of developing for and debugging on Linux based embedded devices, including cross-compiling for different hardware architectures, virtualisation and docker concepts. 
•    Industry experience in MATLAB development Software best practice Competent Can work in a structured software development environment that includes:
•    Architecting & documenting designs.
•    Following coding guidelines.
•    Developing unit and system tests. Use source control systems and engage in peer code reviews. 

Qualifications 

Degree in Electrical / Electronic Engineering, Physics, Maths, Software Engineering, Robotics, Or demonstrable software engineering job experience and on the job training equivalent to a degree.