Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Babcock is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their team in Ashton, Bristol, contributing to mission-critical defence technology. If you are passionate about building software that matters and want to play a part in creating a safe and secure world, this is an exciting opportunity for you.

Our engineers are entrusted with vital work, delivering technology that protects people, infrastructure, and national interests through advanced communications and real-time data processing. A career in defence, aerospace, and engineering at Babcock is challenging, purposeful, and deeply rewarding, offering the chance to make a lasting impact while developing your expertise.

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in developing high-performance software for real-time and embedded systems. You will be part of a small, highly skilled engineering team, contributing to the full development lifecycle from design and implementation through to integration, testing, and deployment.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge software-defined radio and digital signal processing solutions, applying your experience to complex, real-world challenges. You will collaborate closely with systems, quality, requirements, and acceptance engineers, gaining broad exposure while continuing to grow your technical leadership and influence within a high-integrity environment.

Day-to-day, you will collaborate with a team of engineers to design, build, test, and deploy embedded RF applications across the full lifecycle. Applications will require integration with an OpenCPI platform. Specific responsibilities include:

• System On Chip (SoC) DSP solution development
• Test and verification activities
• Integration with System-on-chip platforms
• Data exchange with services higher in the stack

This role is full-time, 37 hours per week, and offers hybrid working arrangements.

Essential Experience

• Proven, recent development experience over multiple projects in C++ and DSP Engineering.
• Experience developing digital signal processing applications.
• Experience working with embedded or real-time operating environments.
• Experience contributing to test, verification, and integration activities.
• Strong collaborative skills within engineering delivery teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical/computer engineering or equivalent relevant experience.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) / Counter Terrorist security clearance for this role. Sole UK National is required.

Please note that many positions within Babcock are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. Your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held.

What We Offer

• Competitive Salary and Benefits.
• Generous holiday allowance.
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations.
• Employee share scheme.
• Employee shopping savings portal.
• Payment of Professional Fees.
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave.
• Holiday Trading to buy or sell annual leave.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ — one paid volunteering day each year.
• Flexible working options that support work-life balance.
• A dynamic working environment.

Babcock is a global FTSE 100 organisation committed to making a difference through lifetime engineering. We are a disability confident committed employer and welcome applications from all candidates. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [email protected].