Senior Applications Software Engineer

A specialist engineering organisation working on advanced sensing and intelligent systems is seeking a Software Applications Engineer to support the development of prototype and customer-facing software. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys technical variety, solving complex problems and contributing across software, hardware and R&D environments.

You will help turn early-stage research software into polished, user-focused applications that run on real hardware platforms. This includes developing graphical interfaces, real-time data visualisation tools and integrating machine learning models for inference.

The Role

• Develop applications using Python and C++ for prototype and R&D systems.
• Create intuitive and responsive graphical user interfaces that present real-time data to end users.
• Implement data acquisition and visualisation pipelines for hardware-connected systems.
• Integrate machine learning models using PyTorch and support inference testing.
• Deploy software on Linux-based platforms and maintain robust build and release workflows.
• Collaborate closely with embedded, electronics and mechanical engineers to deliver integrated systems.
• Support customer demonstrations, trials and feedback sessions.
• Produce clear, well structured technical documentation.

Candidate Profile

• Strong commercial experience with Python and C++.
• Exposure to real-time data processing or hardware integrated systems.
• Experience building GUIs in Python, Qt or similar frameworks is desirable.
• Familiarity with Linux environments and Git based version control.
• Ability to work proactively, take ownership of tasks and contribute ideas.
• Strong communication skills, comfortable working in multi-disciplinary teams and presenting work to stakeholders.
• UK national and eligible for security clearance.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday plus additional Christmas shutdown
• Private medical plan
• Pension scheme
• Electric car and cycle to work schemes
• Flexible start and finish times
• Highly varied, technically challenging work across multiple disciplines