Principal Real-Time Software Architect

Rolls-Royce; Ingatestone; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Rolls-Royce in Heybridge is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to be part of the Software Systems Capability function, specifying, designing, validating and testing software components, including low-level requirements and source code. The Principal Software Engineer is responsible for on-time delivery and quality of software artefacts associated with design and verification.

This role involves decomposing designs and developing tests to ensure requirements are met while collaborating with

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of software design, system architecture, software and/or hardware architecture, software and hardware development process constraints and embedded software testing at module level.
• Degree Qualified
• Strong knowledge of modern C++ in relation to real-time systems, including an understanding of refactoring legacy code to improve robustness.
• A working appreciation of associated engineering disciplines.
• Proficient with design and analysis tools.
• Professional courage to highlight areas of concern and risk with regard to suitability of a product to meet its requirements in a safe and functionally appropriate way.

Responsibilities

• Reviews and agrees high level software requirements including their testability.
• Analyses and translates high level requirements into a validated design for the software component.
• Captures applicable design constraints (must meet conditions) and quality attributes (may be traded) that apply to the component.
• Designs and implements software components to meet the high-level requirements and design constraints/standards. Allocates software requirements to test vehicles defined in the verification plan.
• Analyses software components for functional behaviour, which may include modelling and simulation to demonstrate that the design meets the high-level requirements. Develops and reviews software tests that will provide evidence to demonstrate that the software requirements have been satisfied.
• Analyses existing software for architectural or design issues and drives improvement of the existing code base to meet modern requirements for robustness and safety.
• Analyses verification test results against software requirements.
• Provides targeted testing of software level functionality to support problem investigation and problem closures and customer issues.
• Liaises with other disciplines to understand functional performance capabilities of components of the system to facilitate effective component design.
• May be required to participate in and support capacity planning and the development of long-term strategic goals for the department, in conjunction with the department managers.
• May be required to develop, implement, document, and maintain policies, procedures, associated guidelines, tools and training as required.
• Develops the knowledge required to provide advice to project teams and be able to create, search, and reuse knowledge with some guidance from established practitioners.
• Produces reports where required to document the work carried out.

Skills

C++ (real-time)

Software design

System architecture

Embedded software testing

Analytical thinking

Education

Degree Qualified

Job description

Rolls-Royce in Heybridge is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to be part of the Software Systems Capability function, specifying, designing, validating and testing software components, including low-level requirements and source code. The Principal Software Engineer is responsible for on-time delivery and quality of software artefacts associated with design and verification.

This role involves decomposing designs and developing tests to ensure requirements are met while collaborating with