Safety Critical Software Engineer

Job Title: Safety Critical Software Engineer
Location: Witney, Oxfordshire
Salary: £40,000- £60,000

Safety Critical Software Engineer required for a company in Witney that develops advanced assurance and safety technologies that enable the safe deployment of autonomous and AI-enabled systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop safety-critical embedded software for autonomous systems.
• Build software components supporting runtime assurance and autonomous system safety.
• Develop high-integrity software using SPARK Ada and associated toolchains.
• Support software architecture definition for certifiable autonomous systems.
• Contribute to the development of DAL-A and DAL-B capable software solutions.
• Support integration across mission computers, flight control systems and safety monitoring functions.

Required Experience

• Strong background in embedded software engineering.
• Experience working with C, C++, Ada or similar languages.
• Experience working within safety-critical environments.
• Knowledge of high-integrity software development processes.
• Experience with real-time or embedded systems.
• Familiarity with safety standards and regulated development environments.
• Understanding of software verification and validation methodologies.

Desirable Experience

• Ada or SPARK Ada development experience.
• DO-178C software development experience.
• Automotive (ISO26262 / IEC65108).
• Aerospace, defence or autonomous systems experience.
• Flight control systems or avionics software.
• UAV, UAS, drone or eVTOL platforms.
• Autopilot technologies such as ROS / ROS2, MAVLINK, PX4, ArduPilot or equivalent.

Salary & Benefits

• Salary- £40,000- £60,000
• 3 days (minimum) on site in Witney

Bennett and Game Recruitment are a multi-disciplined technical recruitment agency based in Chichester, West Sussex operating across the UK with specialist teams covering a range of industries.

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