Principal Software Systems Engineer - Solihull (887740)

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Principal Software Systems Engineer
Solihull, West Midlands, England

Description
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.

Job Requirements
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)

Details
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.