Job Description:

Senior Software Engineer, Motion Control

£50-65k

We are hiring an experienced software engineer who enjoys bringing software, electronics and mechanical systems together.  This is an opportunity to take a leading hands-on role in the development and evolution of an advanced antenna controller system, creating reliable software that positions and moves antenna axes accurately and smoothly.

The role focuses on real-world motion control: driving different motor types, using encoder and sensor feedback, tuning closed-loop systems, and improving accuracy, stability and performance through measured data.

Senior Software Engineer essential skills

• 5+ years relevant software engineering experience (C/C++/Python)
• Strong software design fundamentals, including modular architecture, refactoring, testing and version control.
• Practical experience controlling motors or servo mechanisms using closed-loop feedback, including PID/PI tuning and position or velocity control.
• A sound understanding of gearing, inertia, friction, backlash, acceleration, overshoot, oscillation and stability.
• Experience with motor drives, feedback devices and real-time software using an RTOS.
• A degree in engineering or equivalent qualification or experience.

 

Senior Software Engineer desirable skills

• Linux development, scripting and system diagnostics.
• General embedded systems
• Advanced control or estimation methods, including feed-forward control, Kalman filtering, sensor fusion or system identification.
• IMUs, gyroscopes, accelerometers, GNSS or multi-axis motion-control systems.
• MATLAB/Simulink or Python-based control and simulation tools.
• Interfaces such as CAN, SPI, I2C, UART/RS-485 or Ethernet.
• ROS 2, ros2_control, CANopen/CiA 402 or EtherCAT.