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We need skilled, enthusiastic and motivated people at all experience levels from graduate to CTO to deliver these exciting new capabilities. There are opportunities in all relevant engineering and non-engineering disciplines, both for those with space industry experience and those without.

Many roles come with opportunities for remote / hybrid working, working in our offices in Guildford and Great Baddow only when required.

We will provide you with personal development, CPD including support towards professional recognition, industry-leading benefits, and the opportunity to apply cutting-edge technology to interesting problems with the support of our highly-skilled engineering community.

Come and join us for this exciting opportunity to shape and deliver world-class space technologies.

What you will be doing (role duties and responsibilities)

You will lead a team of highly-skilled embedded software and FPGA engineers, designing and implementing platform software and FPGA firmware to run on the hardware we develop. Your software and firmware will be used by our radio, image processing and AI/ML application developers to deliver innovative new services for our customers.

You will be responsible, with your team, for the design and implementation of the platform software and FPGA firmware. As an expert, you will remain hands-on in your day-to-day work typically being involved in design and review activities and implementing and de-risking some of the most challenging areas of the designs.

You will need experience in all of the following areas with expertise in at least one area:

• FPGA: Our systems use large modern FPGAs and SOC devices for data processing and radio DSP
• Embedded software: Low-level software is required throughout our systems, from Linux drivers to realtime and bare metal programming on a wide variety of devices
• Systems: Most of our solutions comprise of a blend of hardware, firmware and software. Early in the development lifecycle you will be involved in the design activity responsible for partitioning the functionality in to these domains taking into account the requirements and constraints.

What we are looking for (skills and experience)

We are looking for ambitious, high-calibre people with the following characteristics:

Essential:

• Experience and expertise in relevant technical disciplines, for example FPGA or embedded software (see above)
• Experience of managing and developing technical teams, including work on multi-disciplinary projects
• Experience of working on products for real world use outside a lab and the associated development processes
• Comfortable working in a dynamic environment where your work delivers into multiple projects and deadlines and priorities are changeable

Desirable:

• Knowledge of modern remote sensing technologies, data processing systems, radio systems and space payloads
• A keen interest in the space sector and awareness of latest industry developments
• Experience of working in the space sector delivering space missions
• Knowledge of ECSS and other relevant space standards