Software Engineer - up to £90 per hour inside ir35 - Hertfordshire - onsite working- 12 months (extensions likely) - one stage virtual interview - SC security cleared project - Sector: Aerospace & Defence

Yolk Recruitment are recruiting for a Software Engineer to work with a global leading aerospace and defence company.

This is an exciting opportunity to work for a highly capable engineer team to explore and experimenting with new implementations and technologies to meet the evolving mission.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and developing Test Equipment software to test world leading complex missile systems and sub-components.
• Working with a wide range of teams and stakeholders across the company to deliver test software capability of products from early concept to production.
• Challenging and implementing real change when opportunities arise in the way the software is developed both within test software and the wider software community.
• Working in a Software Engineering office / lab environment engaging with test equipment and electronic circuitry.

Core Skills:

• Must be eligible for SC clearance.
• Previous software engineering experience in the development of test solutions
• Strong ability to write software in C / C++
• Previous experience working in an agile development team.
• Knowledge and experience of NI TestStand is desirable.
• Knowledge of electronics measurement and debug techniques using equipment such as oscilloscopes and spectrum analysers
• Understanding of communications and serial interfaces such as RS422, RS485, Modbus, CAN and 1553

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with the defence and aerospace sector
• Holds a current SC clearance.
• Experience with C# and scripting languages
• Experience of Test-Driven Development within a software engineering context and comfortable with practices like pair programming and lightweight design modelling
• A good understanding of automation, continuous integration and DevOps principles and practices