Archangel Lightworks is a connectivity company building wireless technology to create the space-enabled networks of the future. We’re passionate about improving humanity’s communications infrastructure and solving some of Earth’s most critical problems from economic inclusion to climate change. Our start-up is a fast-paced and supportive environment, where you can make your mark as part of a growing team and work on the cutting-edge of innovation.
We’re looking for an embedded software engineer to join our experienced engineering team and deliver transformative laser communications technology. You will be responsible for developing, testing, and maintaining the embedded software in our ground stations, enabling reliable control and autonomous operations, and interfacing with external systems. In this role, you will work closely with people across our engineering team, supported by our software team.
Your responsibilities will include working on a combination of the following areas, and you will need to have had commercial experience within a number of these areas:
- Implementation and development of hard real-time algorithms and software control systems on embedded platforms
- High speed (1Gbps+) comms protocol implementation (forward error correction, clock recovery etc)
- Hardware, IoT, and networking protocols, inc I2C, SPI, CAN, UART, EtherCAT, gRPC, MQTT, ZeroMQ, and IP protocols
- Producing reliable, autonomous software that interfaces to cloud services / IoT systems.
- Contributing to the development, integration, testing, and operations for optical ground stations
- Continuous improvements of the software processes, including developing automated tests
Specific requirements:
- Embedded C / FreeRTOS (or similar RTOS)
- C++ / Python / embedded Linux
- Experience with more complex embedded processors / SoCs, such as multi-core and FPGA based systems, esp Xilinx FPGA/MPSoC and associated tool chain (Vivado, Vitis etc)
- Git version control
- At least 2 years commercial experience across a range of projects and systems, especially in an aerospace or similar environment
Desirable additional skills:
- FPGA development and integration
- CI/CD pipelines, scripting, test automation, HIL testing
- Yocto Linux / Petalinux build experience.
- UML / SysML, especially with Enterprise Architect; Experience of software architecture and systems engineering
- Experience and interest in space industry, optical comms, and related standards (CCSDS, ECSS, SDA etc)
Location: Our office is based in Osney Mead, Oxford. There will be opportunity to work from home as agreed with your line manager.
Compensation & Perks:
- The opportunity to make a difference building cutting edge technology to support a world-changing vision
- 25 days annual leave allowance plus bank holidays
- Equity options in a growing start-up
- Investment in you to help you grow, with training resources and budget
- Supportive team culture with high levels of ownership and responsibility
- Annual team retreat, regular socials and weekly team lunch
- Variety of additional perks including learning and wellbeing app subscriptions.