Software Engineer

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Software Engineer

Filton, Bristol.

6 month contract

Job purpose

To develop software that supports the business needs and product objectives

Key responsibilities and accountabilities:

* Design, develop, implement and maintain software to control snake-arm robots, industrial robots, tools and sensors

* Design, develop, implement and maintain software to control test rigs and other hardware

* Deliver customer requirements (internal and external customers)

* Take ownership for the delivery of software for given tasks

* Work on a varied range of development tasks

* Maintain the quality in all software by actively testing, fixing and improving

* Continually and effectively communicate to all members of the software team to help maintain team cohesion in an Agile environment

* And other duties as may reasonably be required, consistent with the post and company needs

* Provide ideas for, and support with, the implementation of over-arching software architecture

* Support others teams in their work as required

* And other duties as may reasonably be required, consistent with the post and company needs

Key qualifications and demonstrated experience

* Good degree (or equivalent) in a rigorous engineering, scientific, or mathematical subject

* At least 5 years' software engineering experience in high-tech engineering companies

* Demonstrably good C/C++ skills

* Experience of C#

* Strong of mathematical ability particularly with 3D geometry

* Good problem solving skills

Desirable skills and knowledge

* Positive, self-motivated, enthusiastic and able to apply a high level of initiative

* Good team-working skills

* Good communicator

* Good organisation skills, able to prioritise under pressure and work unsupervised

* Experience with vision systems

Nice but not essential

* Experience with robotics

* Experience with 3D graphics