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Graduate Software Engineer

Woking
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Graduate Software Engineers 2025 & 2026 required.

In this software design role you will be specifying, designing, developing and testing software for complex systems used for a wide variety of design and delivery applications. Beyond embedded software, there is a broad range of projects requiring skills across the full software development life cycle.

You will be part of a multidisciplinary and supportive team as many of the systems you will be working on will include electronics, optics, fluids, robotics, and user-interface components, thus requiring an all-round engineering knowledge, attention to detail and good team-work skills. Graduate Software Engineers will have some of the following qualifications experience;

  • M.Phil, MSc, MPhys, MRes, MA, BA, BSc in Software Engineering or Computer Science, or Electronic Engineering or physical sciences

  • Knowledge of C, C++, Python, C#, Java, SQL- Full stack development

  • Programming on Cross Platforms- Windows-Linux

  • Embedded software /Firmware experience

  • DSP- Algorithm development

    The following skills and experiences are advantageous, but not essential:

  • Experience in Linux, python and C++

  • Knowledge of electronics and physical interactions with software

  • FPGA/VHDL-Verilog

  • Signal processing, data science or AI knowledge

  • Experience working alongside hardware engineers

  • Data Science/Data Processing

  • Computer Vision/AI

  • Quantum Computing

    As part of the Software and Electronics team, you will be working on ground-breaking projects that improve lives worldwide

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