Job Description
Software Engineer
RAL Space: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell, Oxfordshire
Salary: Band D £31,931 - £34,709 to Band E £39,748 - £44,166 per annum (dependent on skills & experience) *
Contract Type: 3 X Open-Ended
Hours: Full-Time or Part-Time (We understand the importance of work-life balance, and are happy to discuss the possibility of flexible working with applicants)
*A Specialist Allowance of up to £3,000 per annum is also available for this role.
Come and do the kind of engineering that made you want to be an engineer. Stretch your technical skills while building human understanding. Promote sustainability and create new materials. And, alongside world-leading scientists and technologists, shape projects that improve lives, and daily life, in the UK and far beyond.
Discover the impact you can make when you’re equipped, encouraged and inspired to perform at your very best, whilst working within the UK's National Space Laboratory, with over 50 years’ experience in space programmes and significant involvement in over 210 instruments on missions to date. Recent missions include the Lunar and Mars landers along with Earth Observation missions.
You will be designing, developing, solving and testing code for both ground and space based scientific instruments using programming such as ANSI C, Python and C ++ coding, alongside windows or Linux operating systems.
If you are an experienced engineer, you will also have responsibility for Software Project Management and system engineering, including generating quotes and technical submissions to perspective customers, maintaining schedules for software activities and reviewing and approving technical specifications.
Person Specification
- Degree level or equivalent experience in software engineering.
- Evidence of programming in ANSI C and/or embedded Linux.
- Use of software configuration management tools and defect tracking tools e.g., Git.
- Use of tool chains and debug tools such as GCC
- Evidence of technical experience working on embedded software projects designed for high reliability/availability applications.
- Experience of developing high quality software with a good understanding of standard software development methodologies (Agile, Waterfall), adhering to software standards and working within a quality management system (i.e. ISO9000)
We ask some of the biggest questions in the universe, to answer some of the biggest challenges in the world. Together, our scientists, technologists, engineers and business-support team explore the unknown across every field you could think of. And they turn what they find into work that changes the world around us. What could you achieve with the world-leading facilities and experts of one of Europe's largest research organisations by your side? Join us and discover what's possible.
STFC values their employees by offering a benefits package designed to provide an excellent work/life balance. This includes 30 days’ annual leave, 10.5 public and privilege holidays, flexible working hours, a workplace nursery, exceptional average salary pension scheme, social and sporting activities and societies and a subsidised restaurant.
To find out more about this role and information on how to apply, please click the apply button.
Applicants who are unable to apply online should contact us by telephone on 07710 115815.
The closing date for applications is 9th July 2023
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £31,931.00-£44,166.00 per year
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: 230000PD
About Science and Technology Facilities Council
CEO: Mark Thomson
Revenue: Unknown / Non-Applicable
Size: 1001 to 5000 Employees
Type: Government
Website: www.stfc.ac.uk
Year Founded: 2007
