Principal Embedded Software Engineer – Stratospace Flight

Aalto; Rushmoor; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private medical insurance

Dental and optical cash back

Personal pension plan

Income protection

Life assurance

Perkbox employee discounts

Job summary

AALTO, a global leader in Stratospace, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our Farnborough-based multidisciplinary team delivering safety-critical airborne software.

You will design, develop, verify and maintain embedded software in C, with C++ and Python as part of the toolkit, collaborating with systems, hardware, test and flight operations teams to meet demanding safety and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on software engineering experience in embedded or real-time systems.
• Experience taking airborne software through the DO-178C lifecycle and supporting aircraft certification activities.
• Strong C programming skills, with practical experience in C++ and Python.
• Sound understanding of software architecture, design trade-offs, debugging and verification in safety-critical or highly regulated environments.
• Ability to mentor other engineers and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and maintain embedded software for airborne systems, primarily using C, with C++ and Python where appropriate.
• Contribute across requirements, architecture, detailed design, implementation, integration, verification and certification support.
• Work closely with systems, hardware, test and flight operations teams to diagnose issues, make sound technical decisions and deliver aircraft-level outcomes.
• Lead and contribute to software architecture discussions, technical reviews, code reviews and engineering best practice.
• Support software integration, debugging, test automation and continuous improvement of development processes.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to other engineers, helping the team build capability and confidence.
• Assess new tools, methods and technologies where they can improve quality, reliability or productivity.

Skills

Embedded software engineering

C programming

C++

Python

DO-178C lifecycle

Aircraft certification

Safety-critical systems

Mentoring

Job description

AALTO, a global leader in Stratospace, is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our Farnborough-based multidisciplinary team delivering safety-critical airborne software.

You will design, develop, verify and maintain embedded software in C, with C++ and Python as part of the toolkit, collaborating with systems, hardware, test and flight operations teams to meet demanding safety and quality standards.