Safety Critical Software Engineer

Salary: £60,000 - 60,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong background in embedded software engineering.
• Experience working with C, C++, Ada or similar languages.
• Experience working within safety-critical environments.
• Knowledge of high-integrity software development processes.
• Experience with real-time or embedded systems.
• Familiarity with safety standards and regulated development environments.
• Understanding of software verification and validation methodologies.
• Ada or SPARK Ada development experience is desirable.
• DO-178C software development experience is desirable.
• Automotive experience with ISO26262 or IEC65108 is desirable.
• Aerospace, defence or autonomous systems experience is desirable.
• Experience with flight control systems or avionics software is desirable.
• Experience with UAV, UAS, drone or eVTOL platforms is desirable.
• Familiarity with autopilot technologies such as ROS, ROS2, MAVLINK, PX4, ArduPilot or equivalent is desirable.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop safety-critical embedded software for autonomous systems.
• Build software components supporting runtime assurance and autonomous system safety.
• Develop high-integrity software using SPARK Ada and associated toolchains.
• Support software architecture definition for certifiable autonomous systems.
• Contribute to the development of DAL-A and DAL-B capable software solutions.
• Support integration across mission computers, flight control systems and safety monitoring functions.

Technologies:

• Ada
• AI
• Embedded
• Support
• ROS
• Spark
• C++

More:

We are a company based in Witney, Oxfordshire, developing advanced assurance and safety technologies that enable the safe deployment of autonomous and AI-enabled systems. This role offers a salary of £40,000 to £60,000 and requires a minimum of three days on site in Witney. We are recruiting through Bennett and Game Recruitment, a multi-disciplined technical recruitment agency operating across the UK.

last updated 32 week of 2026