Details:
- Salary: £45,000 - 54,000 - Annum
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Annum
- Location: Leicestershire
- Date: 4 days ago
Description:
Senior Software & Controls Engineer (Permanent) - East Midlands (Fully On-site)
Permanent, full-time Senior Software & Controls Engineer role in the East Midlands, 100% on-site. Focus is model-based controls, embedded software/firmware, and on-hardware validation in a regulated product development environment.
Key responsibilities (keyword-heavy)
Control system design, control strategies, control algorithms
Model-Based Design (MBD) using MATLAB, Simulink, Stateflow
Modelling and simulation, plant models, system-level and component-level simulation
Auto-coding / model-to-code deployment onto embedded real-time control hardware
Embedded software, firmware development, bare-metal C / embedded C
Hardware integration, sensor/actuator bring-up, troubleshooting and fault-finding
Comms/interfaces: CAN bus, SPI, serial protocols
Verification & Validation (V&V), on-hardware testing, debug, data capture and analysis
Process-led engineering: testing, issue/defect reporting, change control / configuration management
What we're looking for
Degree (BEng/BSc or equivalent) in a relevant engineering discipline
Strong hands-on capability across controls + embedded software + hardware integration
Confident working in a regulated, quality-led development process (automotive/aerospace style environments)
Clear written and verbal communication; able to explain complex technical concepts to different audiences