Senior Real-Time Embedded Software Engineer

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

Job summary

Rolls-Royce plc in Heybridge, United Kingdom, seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead delivery of software components, verification artefacts, and design validation across the software system. You will decompose designs, develop tests, and ensure on-time quality delivery for high-integrity real-time environments.

The role requires strong C++ expertise, architecture understanding, and collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams to meet safety and robustness standards within a permanent

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. This can include an appreciation of the tools and what can be achieved through them.
• 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.
• An ability to interpret test results and provide an informed opinion or conclusion as to the outcome of the analysis. This includes an understanding of measurement uncertainty.
• A demonstrated ability to manage tasks to completion ensuring that the relevant areas of the business are appropriately informed.
• An ability to identify and manage risk in collaboration with team members.

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 systems

Software design

System architecture

Testing

Risk management

Education

Degree Qualified

Tools

Design tools

Job description

Rolls-Royce plc in Heybridge, United Kingdom, seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead delivery of software components, verification artefacts, and design validation across the software system. You will decompose designs, develop tests, and ensure on-time quality delivery for high-integrity real-time environments.

The role requires strong C++ expertise, architecture understanding, and collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams to meet safety and robustness standards within a permanent