Embedded Software Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Significant experience developing and debugging real-time software applications using C++.
• Considerable experience with Rhapsody UML or another model-driven development tool.
• Extensive experience developing functional and integration tests, including simulation and hardware testing.
• Proven experience developing and testing software to requirements and ICDs.
• Competence with MS Office tools and DOORS for reviewing and updating technical documentation.
• Working understanding of configuration management tools such as RTC/EWM.
• Knowledge of Python, Ada, or FreeRTOS would be highly beneficial.
• We need a can-do attitude, a proactive and adaptable approach, and strong communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• Develop embedded real-time software on Linux using Rhapsody and C++ in a multi-threaded application against software requirements and ICDs.
• Write unit and functional tests and carry out integration testing with target hardware.
• Adhere to agreed project planning and project quality processes.
• Use JIRA for project management and issue tracking.
• Work in a lab environment running software on target hardware.
• Contribute across the full software development life cycle and work with limited supervision.

Technologies:

• Ada
• Embedded
• FreeRTOS
• Hardware
• JIRA
• Linux
• Python
• Security
• UML
• C++

More:

We are a world leader in missile and missile systems, seeking an adaptable Embedded Software Engineer to join our growing Software team in Bristol. You will help develop mission-critical defence systems as part of a medium-sized team while also being empowered to work individually with little supervision. This is a 6-month contract role, working 37 hours per week, onsite in Bristol, with an umbrella pay rate of up to £70 per hour. Security clearance is required to start, and the role is inside IR35. We are Line Up Aviation, a specialist aviation and aerospace recruitment company operating globally for more than 30 years, working with some of the industrys best-known companies and upholding a culture of honesty and integrity.

last updated 32 week of 2026