Senior VxWorks / DO-178C Developer
Number of positions: 4
Location: Remote - UK based
Contract: Inside IR35
Duration: ASAP - September 2027
Pay rate: £474 per day, inclusive of holiday pay
Umbrella equivalent: £550 per day
CPL is supporting a client with the appointment of four experienced Senior VxWorks / DO-178C Developers for a long-term embedded software engineering programme. We are looking for senior engineers with strong safety-critical embedded development experience and, critically, proven DO-178C certification experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement and validate embedded software, including Board Support Packages (BSPs), for custom and COTS embedded hardware systems.
- Design, implement and test software drivers for peripheral devices used within embedded hardware environments.
- Develop hardware test code and support the bring-up and validation of custom embedded hardware.
- Produce detailed technical and software design documentation.
- Support technical planning, including statements of work, effort estimation and identification of required engineering skills.
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues across embedded software and hardware environments.
- Work independently while collaborating with project managers, engineers and wider technical teams.
- Provide technical mentoring and support to more junior engineers where required.
Essential Skills & Experience
- DO-178C certification experience is mandatory.
- Minimum 7 years’ software development experience, including at least 5 years working with DO-178C development.
- Deep understanding of DO-178C standards, particularly DAL A certification.
- Strong experience of requirements-based testing, verification and validation, and structural coverage.
- Experience developing safety-critical and/or avionics software.
- Strong C programming skills.
- Experience with low-level embedded software development, including BSPs and device drivers.
- Experience with embedded development environments such as Workbench or Eclipse.
- Experience with custom embedded hardware bring-up.
- Development experience across embedded processor architectures such as PowerPC, MIPS, x86 and ARM.
- Familiarity with tools such as DOORS, Polarion and Jira, or equivalent.
- Strong communication, problem-solving and stakeholder-facing skills.
Desirable: Experience with multi-core and virtualisation architectures, Simics and/or certification-focused environments.
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