Senior Software Engineer

Salary:Up to £50,000 depending on experience
Location: New Mills, Global HQ (GL12 8JR)
Hybrid working:3 days per week onsite, 2 days from home (4.5 day working week, half day Fridays)

Renishaws Engineering Technology Centre (ETC) is responsible for the early-stage research and development of boundary-pushing concepts, systems, solutions, technologies, and products.

Were a small team of creative, multidisciplinary individuals looking to recruit a Senior Software Engineer to work on a novel concept in machine automation.

As a Senior Software Engineer in the ETC, youll focus on integrating concept-enabling mechatronic solutions with existing hardware and software systems. Youll be developing and improving the software architecture to support this novel concept. This includes opportunities to take on a broad range of further software development activities that will enable you to contribute to existing and future projects.

As a business and a department, we are continuously involved with R&D for new products so there will be a need to attend site to carry out certain tasks and were likely to ask you to attend more often during key phases of projects. Our main engineering site is nicely situated among open green spaces in a campus setting.

About the role

• Support the development of early-stage prototypes, including testing, bug-fixing and problem solving, feeding back results to improve system designs.

• Focusing on the development, testing, continuous integration/continuous delivery and maintenance of robust software components. Including involvement in the specification and design phases of these components.

• Developing production-standard engineering software as part of the product design process for new products, from user facing front end desktop applications through to embedded firmware.

• Contributing to team ideation. Suggesting and evaluating novel approaches to problems and helping to implement innovative solutions for new products.
  
  

About you

• Proven experience developing software in C#

• Qualified to degree level in an Engineering, Computer Science, Software Development, Physical Sciences, or a Mathematics related discipline.

• Proven experience in the development of robust and maintainable object-oriented software, developed using modern software engineering methods and architecture design practices.

• Experience in using unit testing frameworks.

• Experience of using standard software engineering tools e.g. Visual studio, VS Code, Git, Azure DevOps, Atlassian tools.

• Ability to create clear and concise technical documentation of software for various levels of users; developers, end users and teams.

• Mathematical understanding of 3D geometry, vector transformations, rigid body kinematics and point data set manipulation.

• Experience in analysing and presenting data to review, understand and improve system performance.

Person specification

For this role, were open to considering engineers of varying levels of experience, but as the successful candidate youll be keen to learn new technologies and broaden their horizons, enabling you to contribute within a research environment on rapidly evolving projects. Youll also hold a willingness to put forward and independently research completely new systems, ideas, and solutions.

Benefits

When you join Renishaw, we're committing to your future career. That's because we believe in developing our people's skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that's highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, subsidised onsite restaurants and coffee shops, free parking, car sharing scheme and 24 hour fitness centres.

We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join BUPA Renishaw Health Trust and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.

At Renishaw we believe that our success is powered by welcoming a workforce of diverse and talented people. Through encouraging an inclusive culture, where all our employees are free to be themselves, we can achieve our core values: Innovation, Inspiration, Integrity, and Involvement.

If you are excited about the role but feel as though you dont meet all the requirements, we would encourage you still to apply. You might just be the right person for this role or another opportunity at Renishaw.

We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, or require any reasonable adjustments please contact the recruitment team.

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Posted Date: 10/4/2024