Our Opportunity

Work Location: Kidlington, Oxfordshire 

Roster: Monday - Friday 

Role Purpose: 
The Senior Embedded Software Engineer will take technical ownership of key software components and engineering practices within Elysia Embedded, a world-class battery software product. 

The role will design, develop, optimise, maintain, and verify efficient, scalable embedded software — from architecture and model-based implementation through to system integration and release readiness. 

The role focuses on creatively transforming advanced battery algorithms into lightweight, production-ready embedded solutions that maximise battery performance, reliability, and lifespan.

Key Responsibilities

•    Transform complex algorithms into resource-efficient embedded implementations through simplification, optimisation, and sound engineering judgement.
•    Lead and contribute to scalable, maintainable, testable, and computationally efficient software architecture.
•    Design, implement, verify, and review software units using model-based development, code generation, and automated testing.
•    Integrate software components and verify system-level interactions through simulation, integration testing, debugging, and issue resolution.
•    Analyse and optimise execution time, memory usage, numerical behaviour, and real-time performance.
•    Improve software quality through standards, modelling guidelines, static analysis, peer reviews, CI/CD, and automated workflows.
•    Improve developer productivity through build systems, debugging tools, simulation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and automation.
•    Guide engineers through architecture discussions, model/design reviews, code reviews, troubleshooting, and knowledge sharing.
•    Identify inefficiencies across software performance, workflows, and processes, and drive practical improvements.

Qualifications and Experience

Details of the experience needed to be successful in the role, the qualifications essential/desirable to be able to fulfil the role and any specific behavioural traits.

Essential:
•    Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. degree in a relevant STEM subject, or equivalent practical experience.
•    5+ years of relevant embedded software engineering experience, including at least 3 years in model-based development, preferably in the automotive or aerospace industries.
•    Ability to analyse technical trade-offs between algorithm accuracy, computational efficiency and maintainability.
•    Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to adapt academic concepts to practical implementations.
•    Knowledge of embedded architectures, memory management, and real-time systems.
•    Experience with version control, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks.
•    Excellent communication skills and a collaborative working style, with the ability to explain technical decisions clearly across software, algorithm, application, and product teams.
•    Proactive mindset, able to identify technical or process inefficiencies and drive improvements.

Beneficial:
•    Experience with battery state-estimation algorithms, such as SoC, SoH, SoP, and/or battery management systems
•    Experience with ASPICE, ISO 26262, or similar software development standards.
•    Familiarity with simulation frameworks, profiling tools, and debugging in embedded environments.
•    Exposure to hardware/software co-validation, including HIL, SIL, MIL, or PIL testing.
•    Experience providing technical guidance, reviewing designs/models/code, or mentoring engineers.

This job description is not exhaustive, and the job holder will be required to carry out from time-to-time tasks in addition to the above that will be both reasonable and within their capabilities.

About Us

Be part of something big. Fortescue is leading the world with our plan to decarbonise our iron ore operations, projects that harness renewable energy and the development of technology that will change our planet forever.

Our Commitment

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

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