Lead Edge & Device Software Engineer

Jobs in JS; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; 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 seeks an engineer for the Internal Tooling team to build software running on our physical devices, including test stations, manufacturing rigs and lab equipment. You will enable data flow from devices to backend services and integrate with hardware, protocols and cloud components.

You will work across device interfaces, back-end integration and remote diagnostics, with a focus on reliability, deployment and maintainability.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Python and C++, with exposure to Rust, Go or C#.
• Experience talking to hardware over interfaces such as serial, USB, CAN and Ethernet/TCP.
• Experience building clients that send data to REST backends with retries and offline support.
• Solid Linux experience: systemd services, networking, permissions and device access.
• Knowledge of concurrency, async I/O and robust error handling in long-running apps.
• Experience owning full development lifecycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing and handover.
• Familiar with Git, code reviews and Agile planning.
• Embedded firmware or microcontroller development (e.g. STM32) is a plus.
• Docker containerised deployments on edge devices and device fleet management.

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 outages, faults and restarts without data loss.
• Design device software for easy deployment, configuration, updates and remote diagnosis.
• Collaborate 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.
• Identify opportunities to automate and instrument more of our physical processes.

Job description

Cambridge Aerospace seeks an engineer for the Internal Tooling team to build software running on our physical devices, including test stations, manufacturing rigs and lab equipment. You will enable data flow from devices to backend services and integrate with hardware, protocols and cloud components.

You will work across device interfaces, back-end integration and remote diagnostics, with a focus on reliability, deployment and maintainability.