DSP Embedded Software Engineer – Software Defined Radio Datalink

Stevenage (onsite role) – 6 month duration – Pay rate up to £53.51 p/h PAYE basic (£61.29 p/h including holiday pay) or £70 p/h Umbrella

We are looking to recruit an Embedded Software Engineer to join our defence client in this onsite role based in Stevenage. You will be joining the growing Software team working to develop, test and deliver innovative solutions by exploiting a wide portfolio of software technologies. You will work as part of a small team and be empowered to work individually with little supervision.

You will need to be able to work independently and be self-driven whilst providing some technical leadership. You will need to be very proactive and comfortable working with teams outside of the SW department, and be experienced in Digital Signal Processing techniques (SDR) and able to develop embedded SW in C. To be able to work in a lab based environment using various test tools such as scopes, logic analysers, bespoke test equipment and host based testing.

Responsibilities:

An Embedded Software C Engineer capable of developing, integrating and testing embedded Software

Producing test requirements & test scripts for Unit, Subsystem and System level testing on both host and target platforms

Running tests, analysing results and using target test facilities such as debuggers, probes, logic analysers and oscilloscopes

Documentation and Design work in UML

Integration of software components with ARM multi-core platforms, FPGA subsystems and RF transceiver interfaces

Support real-time TX/RX data processing, buffering and performance optimisation on embedded targets

Contribute to system integration and verification of Software Defined Radio (SDR) datalink capability

Requirements:

Proven ability with Digital Signal Processing and the C Programming Language

Proven ability testing software products for ARM based multi-core processing platforms

Knowledge of communications protocols (e.g. SPI, UART, Ethernet, PCI-Express)

Use of DOORS

Proven ability of test tools and techniques in both host and target environments

Use of test tools such as LDRA or equivalent for host testing

Knowledge of model-based development, either in SysML/UML

Knowledge of Real Time Operating Systems such as PikeOS or FreeRTOS

Understanding of real-time embedded data handling mechanisms such as DMA, interrupts and shared memory

Exposure to wireless modulation or waveform processing concepts (desirable)

Experience working with FPGA or SDR based embedded systems (desirable)

Additional information:

Please note, due to the sensitive nature of the projects involved, all candidates must be capable of gaining a UK MOD Security Clearance to SC level. You will require a live SC before you can start.

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