Overview
To design and implement software solutions for underwater robotics applications in line with the company’s business needs through innovation, creativity and professionalism. Able to demonstrate expertise and experience in software used on industrial, vehicle and vessel systems.
Responsibilities
Reporting to the Software Manager, the Software Lead role involves taking responsibility for the delivery of projects and leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver technically complex software projects for subsea vehicles and associated robotic functions. The role typically requires input from several differing software and engineering disciplines and supporting functions, and the Software Lead binds these inputs together to successfully deliver the software content for Saab products.
Technical Skills and Desired Knowledge
- Web backend servers (Angular, Django, NodeJS, React, Apache or similar)
- Web Sockets
- Docker
- TCP‑IP / UDP
- SQL or other databases
- Dev tools (Wireshark, system log interrogation etc.)
- Cyber security
- Exposure to IP video and video routing
- Familiarity with design and testing of control software
- Familiarity with systems serving real‑time information via Web Sockets
- Use of DDS and interfacing with it
- Message Queues (ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ)
- GUI development experience (.NET GUI framework, Qt 6.2 or earlier)
- Developing and debugging application software in Visual Studio (2013, 2017, 2022)
- Customer‑facing APIs using web technologies
Requirements
- A minimum of seven years’ experience as a Senior Engineer
- A degree in a relevant engineering discipline
- Broad understanding of software from embedded through to applications
- Leading multi‑disciplined teams of software engineers
- Ability to develop a software architecture for complex systems from scratch
- Sound understanding of modern software methods and technologies
- Maintain a system‑level approach and not get lost in the detail
- Develop system‑level requirements and derive lower‑level requirements to achieve them
- Sound understanding of safety concepts and design
- Interface directly with customers
- Act as a technical authority
- Communicate technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders
- Estimate work content and duration
- Plan work loading for teams ensuring no team member is overloaded
- Instigate processes to ensure industry best practice is achieved
- Ensure appropriate levels of software quality are achieved for projects
- Mentor and develop junior engineers
- Delegate tasks effectively
- Manage resources and budgets
- Practical understanding of standards and their application
- Appreciate cyber security and its impacts on design
Screening Requirements
By submitting an application to Saab UK you consent to undertaking workforce screening activities that may include but are not limited to baseline personnel security checks, national security vetting, reference checks and verification of working rights.
In all circumstances preferred candidates will be placed through a security interview.
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