Contract Principal Software Systems Engineer Job in West Midlands, Midlands UK
Contract Principal Software Systems Engineer - Embedded C
Business/Department: Electric Power Steering (EPS) - Systems
Engineering
Location: West Midlands
Salary: Up to £40 per hour (perm candidates also welcome to apply)
The Role:
The Functional Integration Team is responsible for the development and release of application software for a number of high profile challenging global applications with European, North American Chinese vehicle manufacturers. You will lead this development, striving for customer delight with timely deliveries, novel system functions and high quality software. You will lead a team in the generation of software design document to appropriate software quality and safety standards, review software implementation and perform system level testing and issue resolution. As the post covers the interaction between software and hardware, a broad understanding of a range of engineering disciplines, such as electronic hardware control and software development for embedded systems, will be an advantage.
What you will do:
• Plan coordinate and report the function development, testing and release for a specific application throughout the product lifecycle both internally and with customers and suppliers. (Overseas travel will be required from time to time)
• Provide leadership to function development teams both internally and off-shore
• Translation customer specifications into software requirement documents for implementation by the software team
• Work with the software suppliers to ensure that all the software deliverables meet requirements and standards
• Lead system integration and testing, requiring development work on bench rigs and in vehicle
• Contribute in the relevant areas of ECU and software safety analysis (e.g. dFMEA, FTA)
What we are looking for:
Essential:
• Experience of team leadership and delivery in a technically and commercially challenging environment
• Able to motivate and work effectively within a team, with a strong positive attitude
• 2.1 or better degree in Electrical / Electronic Engineering or a related discipline
• Understanding of software/systems design and experience of tools and methods
• Knowledge of real-time embedded software (C language) to support algorithm development activities
• Experience of writing formal software requirement specifications
Desirable:
• An understanding of analogue digital electronic hardware
• Matlab and/or Simulink experience, preferably with automatic target code generation
• Knowledge of design for safety-critical applications and/or automotive component development industrialization
• Familiarity with SPICE or equivalent
• Understanding of CAN-bus communications and diagnostics over CAN
• Six-Sigma Green Belt certified