Human-Machine Interface Software Engineer Broughton
Job description
We are looking for a HMI Software Engineer to join AALTO Haps Ltd in Farnborough.
Zephyr is an ultra-light weight, solar electric aircraft, which is able to fly persistently, day and night in the stratosphere, for months at a time. The current single tail variant (Zephyr S) completed its successful maiden flight during Engineering Flight Trials (EFT) in Arizona USA in July and August 2018, achieving an endurance of 25 days, 23 hours and 57 minutes. It continues to pursue and break world records.
The successful candidate will be responsible for working within a team environment and assisting with delivering all stages of the design and development of the ground control software, from identifying requirements, through design, programming, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.
There will be a particular technical emphasis on the ground station software
Job Profile
- Assist the Team Leader analyse and derive requirements from stakeholder needs or upper- level requirements, over the successive system decomposition levels.
- Assist with defining or amending requirements in compliance with quality criteria, avoiding over- and under- specification.
- Assist and Determine specificities of interface requirements.
- Assist in the Definition and justify the requirements allocation to the given system elements taking into account the architectural interfaces and constraints, (e.g. requirements constraining system architecture), ensuring requirements traceability.
- Assist with requirement changes, including impact analysis and requirements baseline establishment.
- Implement design documents and software changes, including new and expanded functionality.
- Ensure software meets requirements; comply with coding standards and unit test code modules using available test tools to determine static analysis of code implemented.
- Production of documentation: including design documents, user manuals and operator training materials.
Skills/Experience Required
We appreciate that not everyone will have all the skills/experience listed below, and would welcome applications even if you do not meet all the requirements.
- Experience working with software development teams through the software development lifecycle. (SDLC)
- PC application development using Windows and other RTOS.
- HMI application development. Model driven VAPS or SCADE Display.
- Experience of Human Factors would be useful.
- Knowledge of OpenGL would be useful
- Requirements, design and software process documentation.
Other Useful skills and experience:
- Experience in aviation, particularly ground control systems would be an advantage.
- MISRA C or C++ Coding standard
- Experience applying RTCA DO-178, DO-278, DefStan55 experience preferred
- Doors experience, UML.
- Subversion SVN experience (source control).
Guidant Global (Airbus) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
