Lead Software Engineer

• Location: Norfolk
• Hours: 37.5 hours per week (8:30am - 5:00pm, Monday to Friday)
• Work Arrangement: Hybrid options available, though typically require 3-4 days per week on-site to facilitate collaborative and hands-on engineering activities.
  
  
• Rate: £450 / Day Rate ( Outside IR35)
  
  
  
• Interview Process: 1.
  💻 Stage 1: Microsoft Teams interview
  🏢 Stage 2: On-site interview

We are seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer to spearhead the design, development, and delivery of embedded software solutions for innovative electric drive systems.

Operating within a fast-paced, small-to-medium engineering environment, you will provide critical technical leadership across all software development activities. You will lead a dedicated team of software engineers across BSW and Application Software, defining software architecture and driving robust planning, documentation, and organisation. You'll collaborate closely with systems, electronics, mechanical, and test teams to bring advanced electric drive technologies from concept through to validation and production.

• Technical Leadership & Architecture: Lead the design and development of embedded software for electric drive systems (including BSW, Application Software, motor/charging/DC-DC control, diagnostics, and system functions). Define, maintain, and own the software architecture aligned with product requirements.
  
  
• Team Management & Mentorship: Lead, organize, and mentor software engineers, promoting best practices across development, planning, and documentation. Allocate daily activities and support capability growth.
  
  
• Lifecycle & Process Ownership: Oversee the full software lifecycle-from requirements through implementation, verification, validation, and release. Define tools, methods, and ASPICE-aligned development processes.
  
  
• Hands-on Development: Develop and review high-quality embedded software using model-based development, autocode, and manual coding.
  
  
• Integration & Testing: Lead software integration with hardware platforms and embedded targets. Support prototype and validation activities, including bench, HIL, and dynamometer testing.
  
  
• Continuous Improvement: Drive automated testing, version control, continuous integration, and configuration management. Ensure compliance with standards like ISO 26262, MISRA C, and functional safety principles.

• Electric Drive Expertise: Proven mastery in developing, optimizing, and maintaining embedded software for electric drive systems (BSW, Application Software, motor/inverter/DC-DC control algorithms, and real-time systems).
  
  
• Leadership Capability: Track record of leading software engineering teams, allocating work, organizing activities, and delivering high-quality, reliable solutions.
  
  
• Delivery Management: Strong capability in software planning, requirements tracking, architecture definition, change control, and configuration management.
  
  
• Testing & Validation: Experience overseeing unit testing, integration testing, HIL, and system-level testing with full traceability.
  
  
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Ability to work seamlessly alongside hardware, controls, systems, and test engineers.
  
  
• Standards & Compliance: Familiarity with automotive/industry standards including ISO 26262, MISRA C, and ASPICE

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply directly.

Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.