About this role
Salary: £50,000 - 70,000 per year
Requirements
- Commercial software engineering experience with C or C++
- Practical experience in control systems or robotics
- Sound understanding of gearing, inertia, friction, backlash, acceleration, overshoot, oscillation, and stability
- A degree in engineering, or equivalent qualification or experience
- Experience developing algorithms to control multiple motors or servo mechanisms using closed-loop feedback, including PID/PI tuning and position or velocity control
- Desirable: Python
- Desirable: Experience with motor drives, feedback devices, and real-time software
- Desirable: RTOS experience
- Desirable: Linux development, scripting, and system diagnostics
- Desirable: General embedded systems experience
- Desirable: Advanced control or estimation methods, including feed-forward control, Kalman filtering, sensor fusion, or system identification
- Desirable: Experience with IMUs, gyroscopes, accelerometers, GNSS, or multi-axis motion-control systems
- Desirable: MATLAB/Simulink or Python-based control and simulation tools
- Desirable: Experience with interfaces such as CAN, SPI, I2C, UART/RS-485, or Ethernet
- Desirable: Experience with ROS 2, ros2_control, CANopen/CiA 402, or EtherCAT
Responsibilities
- Develop core algorithms for low-latency control systems that use multi-axis movement to search for and dynamically track objects using feedback loops
- Deploy algorithms on embedded Linux or microcontroller-based platforms using C or C++
Technologies
- Embedded
- Ethernet
- Linux
- Matlab
- Python
- ROS
- Robotics
- RS-485
- Sensor Fusion
- C++
More
We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer for work involving complex geometry, coordinate systems, and real-time astronomical tracking. We offer significant autonomy across architecture and implementation, and welcome software engineers with relevant robotics or control projects and strong software development skills.
last updated 45 week of 2026