Principal Software Systems Engineer - West Midlands (KYU-101805)

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Principal Software Systems Engineer
West Midlands, England

The Role:
You will lead this development, striving for customer delight with timely deliveries, novel system functions and high quality software. You will lead a team in the generation of software design documents to appropriate software quality and safety standards, review of software implementation and perform system level testing and issue resolution. As the post covers the interaction between software and hardware a broad understanding of a range of engineering disciplines, such as electronic hardware and control and software development for embedded systems, will be an advantage.
What you ll do

Plan, coordinate and report the function development, testing and release for a specific application throughout the product lifecycle both internally and with customers and suppliers. (Overseas travel will be required from time to time)
Provide leadership to function development teams both internally and off-shore
Translate customer specifications into software requirements documents for implementation by the software team
Work with the software suppliers to ensure that all software deliverables meet requirements and standards
Lead system integration and testing requiring development work on bench rigs and in vehicle.
Contribute in the relevant areas of ECU and software safety analysis (eg. dFMEA, FTA)
What we are looking for

Essential:
Experience of team leadership and delivery in a technically and commercially challenging environment
Able to work motivate and work effectively within a team with a strong positive attitude
2.1 or better degree in Electrical / Electronic Engineering or a related discipline
Understanding of software/systems design and tools and methods
Knowledge of using real-time embedded software (C language) to support algorithm development activities
Experience of writing formal software requirements specifications

Desirable:
An understanding of analogue and digital electronic hardware
Matlab and/or Simulink experience preferably with automatic target code generation
Familiarity with SPICE or equivalent
Understanding of CAN-bus communications and diagnostics over CAN
Knowledge design for safety-critical applications and/or automotive component development and industrialization
Six-Sigma Green Belt certified

Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Recruitment are those of an Employment Agency.