Senior Software & Controls Engineer

Senior Software & Controls Engineer (Permanent) - East Midlands (Fully On-site)

Permanent, full-time Senior Software & Controls Engineer role in the East Midlands, 100% on-site. Focus is model-based controls, embedded software/firmware, and on-hardware validation in a regulated product development environment.

• Control system design, control strategies, control algorithms
• Model-Based Design (MBD) using MATLAB, Simulink, Stateflow
• Modelling and simulation, plant models, system-level and component-level simulation
• Auto-coding / model-to-code deployment onto embedded real-time control hardware
• Embedded software, firmware development, bare-metal C / embedded C
• Hardware integration, sensor/actuator bring-up, troubleshooting and fault-finding
• Comms/interfaces: CAN bus, SPI, serial protocols
• Verification & Validation (V&V), on-hardware testing, debug, data capture and analysis
• Process-led engineering: testing, issue/defect reporting, change control / configuration management

• Degree (BEng/BSc or equivalent) in a relevant engineering discipline
• Strong hands-on capability across controls + embedded software + hardware integration
• Confident working in a regulated, quality-led development process (automotive/aerospace style environments)
• Clear written and verbal communication; able to explain complex technical concepts to different audiences