Senior Software Engineer - Simulators
Location: Warton, Full time on site
Duration: 12 Months
Rate: 45.03 ph PAYE (51.58 including holiday pay) or 59.42 ph Umbrella
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The role of the Typhoon Active Cockpit Rig (ACR) is to allow the design of the Cockpit Human-Machine Interface (HMI) to be visualised and tested in a realistic environment before the design is embodied on the real aircraft. The ACR is driven by a suite of software models & Code that emulate the operation of the real aircraft systems.
The ACR simulation code is developed on Windows desktops in C/C++ and emulates not only the Cockpit Displays & Controls but also the mission systems, vehicle systems, aircraft dynamics, weapon systems and sensors.
Key Responsibilities
- Development of C/C++ code in producing cockpit HMI concepts / prototypes into the ACR.
- Ownership of given tasks, liaising with the internal customer to understand requirements / concepts and to demonstrate implementation through to completion.
- Managing work through configuration control (committing / branching / merging).
- Estimating development activities, including progress reporting.
- Continuous development / refinement of current development processes and technology.
- Working on large legacy code sets
- Adding features to existing product
- Agile working
Essential skills
- C/C++
- Visual Studio
- Significant knowledge of developing in a Windows environment
- Excellent code navigation / analysis / debugging
