Edge Device Software Engineer — Hardware + Data Pipelines

Jobs in JS; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Private Medical & Dental

Cycle to work scheme

Lunchtime catering on site

Job summary

Cambridge Aerospace is seeking an engineer for the Internal Tooling team to build software running on our physical devices and lab equipment. You will enable data flows from devices to backend services, design deployable device software, and collaborate with hardware, test, and manufacturing engineers to turn physical processes into reliable software.

You will own full development lifecycle responsibilities, including requirements, design, testing and documentation, with strong emphasis on

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Python, C++ or similar (e.g. Rust, Go, C#).
• Experience talking to hardware over interfaces such as serial, USB, CAN, and Ethernet/TCP.
• Experience building clients that send data to backend APIs (REST), including retries, buffering and offline operation.
• Solid Linux experience: services (systemd), networking, permissions and device access.
• Understanding of concurrency, async I/O and robust error handling in long-running applications.
• Experience owning the full development lifecycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, documentation and handover.
• Comfortable with standard engineering practices: Git, code review, agile planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of applications and services that run on physical devices and talk to custom hardware and lab instruments
• Build reliable data pipelines from devices to backend APIs that cope with network outages, hardware faults and restarts without losing data
• Design device software for easy deployment, configuration, updates and remote diagnosis
• Work with hardware, test and manufacturing engineers to turn physical processes into dependable software
• Work with backend and platform teams to define APIs and data contracts between devices and services
• Mentor teammates and share hardware-integration best practices
• Look for opportunities to automate and instrument more of our physical processes

Skills

Python

C++

Rust/Go/C#

Hardware communication

Linux

Concurrency

Development lifecycle

Git & Agile

Tools

Docker

Job description

Cambridge Aerospace is seeking an engineer for the Internal Tooling team to build software running on our physical devices and lab equipment. You will enable data flows from devices to backend services, design deployable device software, and collaborate with hardware, test, and manufacturing engineers to turn physical processes into reliable software.

You will own full development lifecycle responsibilities, including requirements, design, testing and documentation, with strong emphasis on