Graduate Programme -Embedded Software Engineering

About The Role
Graduate Programme - Embedded Software Engineering
Barnstaple (with a mix of office and home-based working)
We are SEA.
Engineered to protect. We protect what matters - our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world.
 
Join us.
The SEA Graduate scheme is a two-year programme starting in September 2025, designed to give you real responsibility from day one.  It will provide you with general operational, customer, commercial and people management exposure in key areas with smaller rotations across Production, Business Development, Project Management, Supply Chain and Finance to build on your broader skills. 
As an SEA Graduate you will have the opportunity to become involved in real live client projects, learning as you go and making decisions that impact our business. You will have supported training workshops and development mentoring sessions to equip you with the skills you need to progress and develop your career within SEA.   We believe this is the best way to give you the knowledge and experience you need to grow, unlock your talents, and prove your capabilities.
As a Graduate Embedded Software Engineer, you will perform Embedded Software Engineering (Design, Development, Integration and Test activities) for customer contracts across our business. You will work with the latest technology to help design and build innovative, efficient and secure systems. 
What we offer
Your work, your contribution, deserves to be recognised and rewarded. Have a look at our top benefits below and click here to see everything we can offer you here at SEA.
 All Staff Bonus, Hybrid / Flexible Working arrangements, Flexi Times, Half day Fridays, Social Events, Well Being day off
Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program, Wellbeing centre, Canada Life GP and financial advice
Electric vehicle charging points at all sites, Free on-site parking, Onsite showers and toiletries provision 
What you’ll be doing

Requirements Analysis. 

Software Architecture design and implementation. 

Designing, Specifying and implementing interfaces between systems. 

Understanding, designing and implementing low level hardware interfaces. 

Test Planning, script writing and execution.  
 
System and acceptance testing of software. 
  
Development may include:
 
Communication routing technology for various analogue and serial communications. 
 Interface cards between high level systems and weapon platform controllers. 
 Interface cards between high level analysis software and towed sensor arrays.
Work individually and within a team of multi-disciplined specialists and engineering disciplines to achieve programme results and customer deliverables in a timely and accurate manner.Skills
YYOu You will bring:

A desire to learn and share good practice and knowledge locally to continuously improve your own practices.
A willingness to understand and provide feedback on Company Standards pertaining to Software Development, including design, development and testing practices.   

The skills you need:

A Computer Science , Physics, Electronics or Maths degree with Computer Science.
Programming in C / C++ ideally in an embedded context.
Experience developing in with bare metal or FreeRTOS.
Some experience with or understanding of serial communications e.g  SPI, I2C,  UART
Basic understanding of electronics circuits.
Ability to use basic electronic debugging equipment e.g.  Oscilloscope, Digital Multi Meter  
Other Desirable Skills:

Experience with Wired or Wireless communication technologies e.g. Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth
Experience with FPGA Design / Development
Experience with UML based architecture design
Familiarity with Software Design Patterns
Familiarity with a scripting language e.g. Python, Bash  Join us and be part of something growing - with 450 people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger: protecting what matters. 
 
If you would like to know more, please email our Emerging Talent Team: (url removed)
 
Assessment Centres held end of February and March 2025.
 
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