Embedded Software Engineer in Oxford

Archangel Lightworks is a connectivity company building wireless technology to create the space-enabled networks of the future. We’re passionate about improving humanity’s communications infrastructure and solving some of Earth’s most critical problems from economic inclusion to climate change. Our start-up is a fast-paced and supportive environment, where you can make your mark as part of a growing team and work on the cutting-edge of innovation.

To support our growth, we are looking for an experienced engineer with the practical skills and problem-solving ability to develop embedded software designs. This is a hands-on technical role, developing new software and systems to support control, automation, and data developments.

Responsibilities:

• Development of embedded systems, from design through implementation and testing, to integration.
• Work closely with the project and software leads to deliver high performance communication and control systems.
• Take full responsibility for a design and see that through to integration on the ground station.
• Designing, developing and testing embedded software across different subsystems.
• Supporting test automation and system integration and deployment.
• Providing specialist skills ideally, to broaden the tests skill base (i.e. Linux, FPGA, IoT, image processing etc).
• Contributing to the development, integration, testing, and operations for optical ground stations.
• Continuous improvements to software processes, including developing automated tests.

Requirements:

• Real-Time / Embedded software development in C / C++.
• Development with RTOS (ideally FreeRTOS) and on Linux.
• Working with networking (Ethernet and IP), DMA, and hardware interfacing (I2C, SPI, CAN, and EtherCAT) protocols.
• Developing for multi-core and FPGA based systems.
• At least 4 years relevant commercial experience post-graduation.
• Proficient use of Git version control and CI systems.
• Python development, including test scripts.

Desirable additional skills:

• Xilinx FPGA/MPSoC and associated tool chain (Vivado, Vitis etc) experience.
• Satcomm protocols, Optical free-space comms, and familiarity with Space related standards (CCSDS, ECSS, SDA etc).
• High speed (1Gbps+) comms protocol implementation experience (forward error correction, clock recovery, zero copy etc).
• IoT or cloud software integration and protocols, such as MQTT.
• Experience in FPGA development, VHDL or Verilog.
• Yocto Linux / Petalinux or buildroot build experience.
• Rust development experience.
• Control systems, Matlab / Simulink, including Embedded coder / HDL code generation.
• Managing CI/CD pipelines.
• Systems / requirements engineering experience, including use of UML / SysML.

Location: Our office is based in Osney Mead, Oxford. There will be opportunity to work from home as agreed with your line manager.

Compensation & Perks:

• The opportunity to make a difference building cutting edge technology to support a world-changing vision.
• Options for hybrid working and custom arrangements that matter to you.
• 25 days annual leave allowance plus bank holidays.
• Equity options in a growing start-up.
• Investment in you to help you grow, with training resources and budget.
• Supportive team culture with high levels of ownership and responsibility.
• Annual team retreat, regular socials and weekly team lunch.
• Variety of additional perks including learning and wellbeing app subscriptions.