Advanced Navigation is the world’s most determined innovator in AI robotics and navigation technologies across land, air, sea and space applications. Founded on a culture of research and discovery, Advanced Navigation's mission is to be the catalyst of the autonomy revolution. Fields of expertise include artificial intelligence, underwater sonar, GNSS, radio frequency systems, inertial sensors, robotics, quantum sensors and photonics.

Today, Advanced Navigation is a supplier to some of the world's largest companies, including Airbus, Boeing, Google, Tesla, NASA, Apple, and General Motors. Discover it for yourself: https://youtu.be/F7uAqs1gtuk

OVERVIEW OF ROLE

Advanced Navigation enters a new phase of Growth and International expansion. The Software Platforms team is on a mission to develop software to ensure that our products are the most reliable, high performance navigation products in the world. As a Senior Embedded Software Engineer you will be instrumental in realising this ambition, developing software to solve real world problems with real world impact.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Develop embedded software for our navigation product range
Work closely with the Product Manager to ensure project requirements are being met, timelines are realistic and being adhered to and also the engineering designs meet requirements
Work with team members to grow the collective skills of the entire team
Work closely with a passionate team of engineers, developing embedded C/C++ real-time applications
Collaborate with our hardware team to ensure hardware designs meet software requirements
Be involved in the design process for future products
Proactively adopt and utilise modern AI-assistance tools to optimise coding workflows and problem-solving.
Develop software tools, diagnostics, and infrastructure to support hardware bring-up, factory testing, and manufacturing processes.
Develop software in compliance with relevant international, regional, and industry-specific standards and regulatory frameworks.
Take ownership and responsibility for a component of a project and manage deadlines and reporting for the component.
Deliver quality software solutions to agreed schedules and deadlines
Be involved in the design process for future products

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

Degree qualified Engineer with specialisation in computer systems, software, mechatronics or similar
Degree qualified Engineer with specialisation in computer systems, software, mechatronics or similar
Be comfortable deep diving into technical topics and learning new skills to solve new problems
A track record of turning high level discussions into detailed, personal work plans and reporting progress to management
A proactive self-starting approach with a track record of initiative, personal responsibility, ownership of work and reputation for making things happen
Be highly motivated with an energetic, responsive and decisive disposition;
Proven high standard of attention to detail, time management and “follow-through”.
Comfortable with Linux and containerised applications.
Have 5+ years of engineering experience with complex C/C++ embedded software products
Have experience with embedded systems and microcontrollers
Real-time application development
Have experience with low power electronics and microcontrollers
Have experience with all stages of the product development cycle, concept development, R&D, design and planning
Have experience releasing production quality software
Experience with FreeRTOS real-time operating system
ST MIcrocontrollers STM32 low-level programming experience

(If you don’t have everything in this list, but believe your skills are transferable/you could ramp up quickly, please still apply)

Skills

Mandatory

C/C++ proficiency
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and strong attention to detail.
Efficient time management abilities, showcasing a drive for swift action.
Strong attention to detail
Be comfortable deep diving into technical topics and learning new skills to solve emerging problems
Possess strategic thinking and strong abilities to distil large amounts of information quickly and accurately
Nice to have

Strong mathematics and physics background
Control system proficiency
MATLAB proficiency
Python proficiency
Experience with ARM Cortex-A53 microprocessors within FPGA system-on-chip (SoC) environments, specifically targeting AMD/Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC platforms.
Experience with the Yocto Project build system for configuring and deploying custom embedded Linux distributions.