Permanent
Safety Critical Software Engineer
Electus Recruitment Solutions
Oxfordshire
Posted: 18 August 2026 (Today)
Closing date: 17 September 2026
Ref: 225508023
Location: Oxfordshire
Salary: c-60K
Working Pattern: Hybrid
A rapidly growing technology business is developing assurance and safety capabilities for next generation autonomous systems and is expanding its specialist engineering team.
Working across embedded software, autonomy, aerospace and safety critical engineering, the organisation is developing technology designed to provide confidence in autonomous systems operating within highly regulated environments.
The Role
As a Software Engineer, you will contribute to the design, development, verification and certification of embedded safety critical systems supporting autonomous platforms.
You will work across:
- Safety critical embedded software development
- Runtime assurance and safety monitoring
- Autonomous flight and mission systems
- Design and develop safety critical embedded software
- Develop software supporting runtime assurance and autonomous system safety
- Contribute to software architecture, integration, verification and certification activities
- Strong embedded software engineering background with experience in C, C++, Ada or similar languages
- Experience working within safety critical environments with real time or embedded systems
- Understanding of high integrity software development, verification and validation
- Ada or SPARK Ada and DO 178C experience
- Aerospace, defence, autonomous systems, flight control or avionics software experience
- UAV, UAS, drone, eVTOL, ROS, ROS2, MAVLink, PX4, ArduPilot, model based development or formal methods
This is an opportunity to work on technology addressing one of the major challenges facing autonomous systems, how to make increasingly capable systems safe, reliable and trusted enough for real world deployment.
You will be working alongside a specialist engineering team developing technology with applications across autonomous aviation, defence, drones and next generation autonomous vehicles.
Location: Oxfordshire
Salary: c-60K
Working Pattern: Hybrid
Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to high technology industries. Thank you for your interest. If you do not hear from us within seven working days, please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You may resubmit your CV or details in the future and we shall assess your suitability then.
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