Embedded C Software Engineer for Space Exploration

Embedded C Software Engineer Guildford / Hybrid Standard 8 Systems is working with an engineering team building embedded software for spacecraft and low-orbit systems. These are real-time platforms, flying in genuinely hostile conditions, the kind of environment where you think NASA, you think SpaceX and you''re in the right territory. This isn''t app-layer work wearing an embedded label. You''ll write C close to the metal: hardware interfaces, tight timing constraints, comms protocols, real-time behaviour, and the integration problems that only show up once hardware and software meet. When the thing you built is in orbit, there''s no patching it next sprint, so the bar is high and nobody''s cutting corners. You''ll sit inside a multidisciplinary team where software, electronics, systems and mission delivery all overlap. It moves fast, and the standard stays high, because the software has to hold up when it actually counts. The role You''ll develop embedded C for mission-critical systems and own it end to end: design it, build it, test it, integrate it, support it once it''s flying. The focus is robust, low-level software that talks directly to hardware. Day to day that''s reading technical requirements, working out how the system genuinely behaves, writing clean C, debugging the integration problems nobody else wants to touch, all inside a structured engineering process. Day to day Writing embedded C for real-time and low-level systems Developing software that interfaces ..... full job details .....