Senior Software & Controls Engineer

Line Manager: Principal Software & Controls Engineer

Posted on: Wednesday 16th July, 2025

About the Role

A great opportunity to join a team at the forefront of fuel cell development and to play your part in powering the hydrogen future.

You will deliver embedded control firmware and simulations for systems and system components from early prototypes to fully developed products, ensuring that software is delivered following a robust design, development and validation process.

You will conduct hands on test, validation and debug of system firmware on the target product to facilitate development and understanding of systems in a real-world environment, responsible for firmware design of control architectures and interfaces to systems to facilitate debug and analysis.

Working within a multidisciplinary team you will be working to meet project deliverables in a fast-paced environment, producing designs suitable for development through to production level manufacture and will meet relevant standards.

About You

You enjoy working within multi-disciplinary groups and are an effective communicator with excellent attention to detail, highly motivated and able to contribute to work packages to achieve on time delivery.

You hold a BEng, BSc (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline, alongside suitable industrial experience.

You've got experience in developing software to Automotive or Aerospace standards. You can demonstrate experience in the development of control systems and simulations and compile these to control hardware.

You can use real world hardware through sensors and actuators using a variety of protocols including CAN bus and have a strong background in Simulink development for embedded targets and simulation, following MISRA guidelines.

You have experience of testing software and fixing bugs in a process-driven manner. You can support other teams to determine root cause of cross-functional issues.

Ideally, you've written software to meet functional safety standards and have written software/system requirements and test cases. A working knowledge of ASPICE or equivalent would also be useful.

What We Offer

This role is based on site in our Loughborough facility.

At Intelligent Energy we offer the opportunity to work in a great team, with our world leading technology and cutting-edge products.

We offer the following range of benefits:

• Salary sacrifice pension scheme
• Life cover
• 25 days holiday per year plus public holidays with flexibility to buy or sell holidays each year
• Electric Car Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Exclusive discounts at a wide range of high-street and online retailers
• A relocation allowance where required
• Reimbursement of professional memberships or subscriptions

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