Spectrum IT Recruitment
Software Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £45,000 - 50,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong C or C++ development experience
- Experience with a scripting language such as Python, Groovy or Bash
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and an interest in performance optimisation
- Experience developing for real-time embedded systems and Linux
- Knowledge of SIMD, FPGA or DSP-based hardware acceleration
- Understanding of signal processing and optimisation techniques
- Experience with FPGA toolchains, particularly Xilinx Vivado
- Exposure to O-RAN architecture and fronthaul protocols such as eCPRI
- Experience working with ARM-based platforms
- Develop software used to run and test 5G NR PHY algorithms
- Develop and optimise platform-specific code for embedded systems
- Apply SIMD, multi-threading and hardware acceleration techniques
- Integrate PHY algorithms with ARM-based platforms and boards
- Improve and maintain CI testing across the platform
- Support interoperability testing with customers, vendors and operators
- Work closely with hardware, system architecture and system-test teams
- Contribute to technical reviews and customer-facing activities
- ARM
- Bash
- Embedded
- FPGA
- Groovy
- Hardware
- Support
- Linux
- Python
- C++
More:
We are an innovative technology business at the forefront of 5G and wireless communications, based in Southampton. We are growing our software team and offer the opportunity to work on cutting-edge 5G technology, tackling challenging problems in performance, embedded systems and hardware acceleration. You will work closely with software, hardware, architecture and system-test teams on high-performance 5G technology.
last updated 32 week of 2026
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Spectrum IT Recruitment
Southampton
IT
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£47,500
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£60,000
UK median
This salary is 21% below the UK median for Software Engineers (£60,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks