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Senior Software Engineer
| Posting date: | 03 July 2024 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 August 2024 |
| Location: | Teddington, South West London |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | National Physical Laboratory |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 2111 |
Summary
About the Role
NPL is the UK’s National Metrology Institute. Our role is to research, create and deliver the measurement infrastructure which underpins the UK’s prosperity and quality of life across many fields of industry.
We’re looking for Senior Engineer with a Software focus to join our Mass Metrology group based at NPL, Teddington. You’ll have experience of developing measurement instrumentation, to help deliver state of the art metrology equipment, as well as the confidence and flexibility to deploy the right tools to deliver solutions.
You will work alongside our multi-disciplinary team of Scientists and Engineers, leading the development of software for instrument control, data acquisition and analysis.
One of our current projects involves The Kibble Balance, the project goal is to develop a capability to achieve a usable and maintainable primary realisation of mass using a means allowed under the SI definition of the kg. - click here to find out more!
Key responsibilities:
• Creation and management of requirements, design documents, test plans, verification reports and user guides that support good practice in software engineering.
• Translation of key project needs and system requirements to identified software deliverables.
• Systematic analysis and documentation of legacy software with a view to refactoring and/or language translation.
• Collaborating with the team to ensure that the software interfaces correctly with different instrument sub-systems and delivers a complete system that meets performance and usability targets.
• Production of clean, efficient, and quality code, through testing and debugging, with adherence to NPL standards and procedures in software development and engineering, throughout the development cycle.
• Ownership of a configuration management strategy and deployment of code to remote installations using DevOps methodology (e.g., GitLab).
• Work with other senior members of the team to assess risks accurately and develop mitigations.
• Explaining complex technical concepts to both internal and external stakeholders, from technical and non-technical backgrounds
• Staying up-to-date with the latest trends, tools, and technologies in software engineering and sharing your knowledge to advance the team
• This role offers exciting opportunities to collaborate with subject-matter experts across the business to deliver novel measurement systems that deliver real impact.
Please note, this role is known internally as ‘Senior Engineer’.
About You
We believe that diversity and unique perspectives are key to the success of our science projects. For this role, we particularly encourage applications from candidates underrepresented in STEM disciplines, in particular women, disabled, black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates.
Key Skills and Experience:
• Degree in a relevant technical discipline, such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Physics or Engineering (Electrical/Electronic, Mechanical or Control)
• Experience of software development for instrumentation and/or control systems.
• Ability to deliver software to time and quality, within a systems engineering framework.
• Recent experience in documenting, creating, testing and implementing production-ready software.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-specialist audiences.
• Team player with a proactive attitude
We would also welcome the following:
• PostScript programming language skills
• Modula-2 programming language skills
• Experience of working in a Linux environment and with packages such as Matlab, Python and structured, procedural programming languages
Please note applications will be reviewed, and interviews conducted throughout the duration of this advert therefore we may at any time bring the closing date forward. We encourage all interested applicants to apply as soon as possible.
We actively recruit citizens of all backgrounds, but the nature of our work in specific departments means that nationality, residency and security requirements can be more tightly defined than others. You will be asked about this throughout the recruitment process.
NPL is the UK’s National Metrology Institute. Our role is to research, create and deliver the measurement infrastructure which underpins the UK’s prosperity and quality of life across many fields of industry.
We’re looking for Senior Engineer with a Software focus to join our Mass Metrology group based at NPL, Teddington. You’ll have experience of developing measurement instrumentation, to help deliver state of the art metrology equipment, as well as the confidence and flexibility to deploy the right tools to deliver solutions.
You will work alongside our multi-disciplinary team of Scientists and Engineers, leading the development of software for instrument control, data acquisition and analysis.
One of our current projects involves The Kibble Balance, the project goal is to develop a capability to achieve a usable and maintainable primary realisation of mass using a means allowed under the SI definition of the kg. - click here to find out more!
Key responsibilities:
• Creation and management of requirements, design documents, test plans, verification reports and user guides that support good practice in software engineering.
• Translation of key project needs and system requirements to identified software deliverables.
• Systematic analysis and documentation of legacy software with a view to refactoring and/or language translation.
• Collaborating with the team to ensure that the software interfaces correctly with different instrument sub-systems and delivers a complete system that meets performance and usability targets.
• Production of clean, efficient, and quality code, through testing and debugging, with adherence to NPL standards and procedures in software development and engineering, throughout the development cycle.
• Ownership of a configuration management strategy and deployment of code to remote installations using DevOps methodology (e.g., GitLab).
• Work with other senior members of the team to assess risks accurately and develop mitigations.
• Explaining complex technical concepts to both internal and external stakeholders, from technical and non-technical backgrounds
• Staying up-to-date with the latest trends, tools, and technologies in software engineering and sharing your knowledge to advance the team
• This role offers exciting opportunities to collaborate with subject-matter experts across the business to deliver novel measurement systems that deliver real impact.
Please note, this role is known internally as ‘Senior Engineer’.
About You
We believe that diversity and unique perspectives are key to the success of our science projects. For this role, we particularly encourage applications from candidates underrepresented in STEM disciplines, in particular women, disabled, black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates.
Key Skills and Experience:
• Degree in a relevant technical discipline, such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Physics or Engineering (Electrical/Electronic, Mechanical or Control)
• Experience of software development for instrumentation and/or control systems.
• Ability to deliver software to time and quality, within a systems engineering framework.
• Recent experience in documenting, creating, testing and implementing production-ready software.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-specialist audiences.
• Team player with a proactive attitude
We would also welcome the following:
• PostScript programming language skills
• Modula-2 programming language skills
• Experience of working in a Linux environment and with packages such as Matlab, Python and structured, procedural programming languages
Please note applications will be reviewed, and interviews conducted throughout the duration of this advert therefore we may at any time bring the closing date forward. We encourage all interested applicants to apply as soon as possible.
We actively recruit citizens of all backgrounds, but the nature of our work in specific departments means that nationality, residency and security requirements can be more tightly defined than others. You will be asked about this throughout the recruitment process.
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