Based: Farnborough
Working Arrangement: hybrid
Wherever possible, we will consider a variety of working options to suit your lifestyle, whether that be hybrid home/office working, flexible working and part or full time employment. It's the 'innovating' and 'empowering' values that we ASPIRE to be. We welcome the challenge to work in new ways and have trust in you when getting the job done because we recognise, our business is our people.
Working for Ultra I&C's EWST business in Farnborough, you will assist in the development of our next generation EWST Radar Simulator product line.
The role will provide RF and Mathematical expertise to the software design and development process.
You will be a point of contact on RF matters and able discuss complex ideas and issues with customers.
The role involves day to day coding activities in the core of the applications, using predominantly C++ and occasionally other scripting languages and Matlab.
Occasional worldwide travel to customer sites is possible.
Security Clearance:
Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain SC level clearance to carry out this role.
Key Responsibilities:
Take ownership of maths oriented tasks within the system.
Be a point of contact for knowledge around representation of RF related problems in software.
Responsible for advancing the design and implementation of software design around emitters, receivers and applications modelling environmental effects.
Contributing to documentation, ICDs and Specs, around the new system.
General: Delivering tickets contributing to the overall build, to time and quality expectations.
General: Reporting status and progress on developments. Escalating issues early and pro-actively.
General: Integrating with the team and the pre-existing development processes.
Required Skills & Experience:
Essential: Strong maths acumen.
Essential: solid, proven experience of C++.
Desirable: Knowledge of RF and its terminology (dB, dBm).
Desirable: Knowledge of defence industry and defence projects.
Understanding needs of working with technical documentation, ICDs and requirements.
Tools: A background in using config management tools, such as Git, Jira and Visual Studio.
Knowledge of Matlab
Understanding networking issues; IP connections, as well as JSON.
Full understanding of the system engineering lifecycle, V-model and the typical working practices of a defense industry project.
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Here at Ultra we are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusivity. Underpinned by our values, behaviours and policies, we want you to feel empowered to be the best version of yourself. We also believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures will increase our diversity of thinking, ensuring we successfully deliver to our customers.
We therefore do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also support requests for flexible working arrangements wherever possible.