Senior Software Systems Engineer / Architect

Cambridge
8 hours ago
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Full lifecycle systems design, architecture, verification design and prototyping

Cambridge (south); to £highly competitive package

This growing company produce combined software and hardware systems in the science and technology sector. These incorporate precision autonomous processing, instrumentation, and networked robotics. You will join their Systems Engineering team at a senior level.

You’ll be taking a holistic view from the highest level requirements to the finer points of architecture. From user needs and use cases, you will develop auditable requirements and flexible architectures which can adapt to a host of realistic scenarios. Throughout development, you’ll also help define how systems are verified and validated. You will see systems through to deployment in the hands of major clients.

You will have:

* Significant experience and understanding of software systems engineering as a discipline, as applied to complex software products and ideally with notable hardware elements.

* Strong analytical and problem solving skills applicable to a variety of problem domains to produce clean architecture: divide and conquer, hierarchical decomposition, etc.

* Experience specifying and architecting automated, orchestrated, networked and/or distributed software systems, where workflow is a consideration.

* Hands on software skills which you may apply towards prototyping, exploring designs for testability, guiding hardware selection, etc.

You may have gained this experience in a variety of sectors (e.g. science and technology, scientific instrumentation, industrial automation, defence, automotive, maritime, aerospace).

A highly competitive package is available, in line with senior positions of this level of responsibility. You’d be joining a successful product company as they grow and make the greatest strides in their product development. Benefits include an enhanced pension and medical care. The role is office-based, with flexibility around family considerations. Offices are close to major road and rail links.

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