Senior Software Engineer, Control

Salary: £50,000 - 65,000 per year

Requirements:

• 3+ years of relevant 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
• Experience with motor drives, feedback devices, and real-time software
• Degree in engineering, or equivalent qualification or experience
• Python
• RTOS
• Linux development, scripting, and system diagnostics
• General embedded systems experience
• Advanced control or estimation methods, including feed-forward control, Kalman filtering, sensor fusion, or system identification
• Experience with IMUs, gyroscopes, accelerometers, GNSS, or multi-axis motion-control systems
• MATLAB/Simulink or Python-based control and simulation tools
• Familiarity with interfaces such as CAN, SPI, I2C, UART/RS-485, or Ethernet
• Familiarity with ROS 2, ros2_control, CANopen/CiA 402, or EtherCAT

Responsibilities:

• Develop low-latency control systems for multi-axis movement to search for and dynamically track satellites using feedback loops
• Develop algorithms to control multiple motors or servo mechanisms using closed-loop feedback, including PID/PI tuning and position or velocity control
• Implement systems for deployment on embedded Linux or microcontrollers

Technologies:

• Embedded
• Ethernet
• Linux
• Matlab
• Python
• ROS
• Robotics
• RS-485
• Sensor Fusion
• C++

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last updated 43 week of 2026