Senior Software Engineer

  • Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.
  • Bristol, Gloucestershire
  • 05/05/2026
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer

Location: Ashton, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF73285

Build the software behind mission critical defence technology.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll play a key role in developing high performance software for real time and embedded systems. Working within a small, highly skilled engineering team, you'll contribute across 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'll 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'll collaborate with a team of engineers to design, build, test, and deploy embedded RF applications across the full life cycle. Applications will require integration with an OpenCPI platform. Applications include:

  • 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 provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.

The role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll play a key role in developing high performance software for real time and embedded systems. Working within a small, highly skilled engineering team, you'll contribute across 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'll 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.

Essential experience of the Senior Software Engineer
  • 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 for the Senior Software Engineer

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.

What we offer
  • Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
  • Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
  • 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
Job Segment

Test Engineer, Testing, Embedded, Software Engineer, Aerospace Engineering, Engineering, Technology

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.