Principal Embedded Software Engineer - Aerospace (Hybrid)

Aalto; Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Perkbox discounts

Private medical insurance

Dental and optical cashback

Personal pension plan

Income protection and life assurance

Vehicle salary sacrifice scheme

Job summary

AALTO in Farnborough is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead embedded software across the full lifecycle in a safety-critical domain. You’ll design, implement, verify and maintain avionics software in C, with C++ and Python as supporting tools, working close to product teams and certification activities.

As a senior individual contributor, you’ll mentor engineers, shape architecture, perform reviews, and help raise delivery quality while solving real-world airborne challenges that

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on software engineering experience in embedded or real-time systems.
• Experience taking airborne software through DO-178C lifecycle and certification activities.
• Strong programming skills in C, with C++ and Python.
• Understanding of software architecture, design trade-offs, debugging and verification in safety-critical environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and maintain embedded software for airborne systems using C, with C++ and Python where appropriate.
• Contribute across requirements, architecture, design, implementation, integration, verification and certification support.
• Collaborate with systems, hardware, test and flight operations teams to diagnose issues and deliver aircraft-level outcomes.
• Lead and contribute to software architecture discussions, reviews and best practices.
• Support software integration, debugging, test automation and process improvements.

Skills

Embedded systems

C programming

C++

Python

Safety-critical

DO-178C

Software architecture

Mentoring

Cross-functional teamwork

Job description

AALTO in Farnborough is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead embedded software across the full lifecycle in a safety-critical domain. You’ll design, implement, verify and maintain avionics software in C, with C++ and Python as supporting tools, working close to product teams and certification activities.

As a senior individual contributor, you’ll mentor engineers, shape architecture, perform reviews, and help raise delivery quality while solving real-world airborne challenges that