Safety Critical Software Engineer

Electus Recruitment
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Today
£60,000 pa

Salary

£60,000 pa

Posted
18 Aug 2026 (Today)

Location: Oxfordshire

Salary: c£60K

Working Pattern: Hybrid

A rapidly growing technology business is developing assurance and safety capabilities for next generation autonomous systems and is expanding its specialist engineering team.

Working across embedded software, autonomy, aerospace and safety critical engineering, the organisation is developing technology designed to provide confidence in autonomous systems operating within highly regulated environments.

The Role

As a Software Engineer, you will contribute to the design, development, verification and certification of embedded safety critical systems supporting autonomous platforms.

You will work across:

Safety critical embedded software development

Runtime assurance and safety monitoring

Autonomous flight and mission systemsKey Responsibilities

Design and develop safety critical embedded software

Develop software supporting runtime assurance and autonomous system safety

Contribute to software architecture, integration, verification and certification activitiesWhat We're Looking For

Strong embedded software engineering background with experience in C, C++, Ada or similar languages

Experience working within safety critical environments with real time or embedded systems

Understanding of high integrity software development, verification and validationDesirable Experience

Ada or SPARK Ada and DO 178C experience

Aerospace, defence, autonomous systems, flight control or avionics software experience

UAV, UAS, drone, eVTOL, ROS, ROS2, MAVLink, PX4, ArduPilot, model based development or formal methodsWhy Consider It?

This is an opportunity to work on technology addressing one of the major challenges facing autonomous systems, how to make increasingly capable systems safe, reliable and trusted enough for real world deployment.

You will be working alongside a specialist engineering team developing technology with applications across autonomous aviation, defence, drones and next generation autonomous vehicles.

Location: Oxfordshire

Salary: c£60K

Working Pattern: Hybrid

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to high technology industries. Thank you for your interest. If you do not hear from us within seven working days, please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You may resubmit your CV or details in the future and we shall assess your suitability then

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