{"id":2581132,"url":"https://alion.io/job/cambridge-aerospace-software-engineer-device-edge-applications","title":"Software Engineer (Device & Edge Applications)","company":{"id":1966424,"name":"Cambridge Aerospace","domain":"cambridgeaerospace.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/cambridgeaerospace","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"HiBob","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":12,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-15T05:46:00Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Cambridge, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":66000,"max_usd":161000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":383},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"C#","optional":false},{"name":"C++","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"Go","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"Rust","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon S3","optional":true},{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"AWS Lambda","optional":true},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":true},{"name":"Docker","optional":true},{"name":"DynamoDB","optional":true},{"name":"Human-in-the-Loop","optional":true},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":true},{"name":"Tkinter","optional":true},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-06T06:58:30Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-15","last_verified_at":"2026-10-15T13:56:17Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":9,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":9},"description":"Overview\n\nAs an engineer in the Internal Tooling team, you'll build the software that runs on our physical devices. That includes test stations, manufacturing rigs, lab equipment and the computers that control them. Your applications control and read from custom hardware and instruments, then reliably send that data to backend services where the rest of the company can use it.\nOur users are our own colleagues, across engineering, manufacturing, and all other departments. Feedback loops are extremely fast; our work exists to enable the company to move faster and increase our resilience.\nYou'll work across hardware interfaces, device applications and backend integration. You should be comfortable picking up new protocols, devices and technologies as projects require.\nResponsibilitiesLead the design of applications and services that run on physical devices and talk to custom hardware and lab instruments\nBuild reliable data pipelines from devices to backend APIs that cope with network outages, hardware faults and restarts without losing data\nDesign device software for easy deployment, configuration, updates and remote diagnosis\nWork with hardware, test and manufacturing engineers to turn physical processes into dependable software\nWork with backend and platform teams to define APIs and data contracts between devices and services\nMentor teammates and share hardware-integration best practices\nLook for opportunities to automate and instrument more of our physical processes\nRequirements\nStrong proficiency in Python, C++ or similar (e.g. Rust, Go, C#)\nExperience writing software that talks to hardware over interfaces such as serial, USB, CAN, and Ethernet/TCP\nExperience building clients that send data to backend APIs (e.g. REST), including retries, buffering and offline operation\nSolid Linux experience: services (systemd), networking, permissions and device access\nUnderstanding of concurrency, async I/O and robust error handling in long-running applications\nExperience owning the full development lifecycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, documentation and handover\nComfortable with standard engineering practices: Git, code review, agile planning\nPreferred Qualifications/Experience\nEmbedded firmware or microcontroller development (e.g. STM32)\nDevice fleet management: provisioning, over-the-air or remote updates, configuration management, device monitoring\nContainerised deployments on edge devices with Docker\nTesting hardware-dependent code: hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testing, simulators and mocks\nImproving CI/CD pipelines, including cross-compilation and building device images\nFamiliarity with backend storage and cloud services (e.g. Postgres, AWS S3, DynamoDB, Lambda)\nSimple operator UIs (e.g. tkinter, web-based local UIs, TypeScript)\nUsing AI tools to speed up your work while keeping quality high and your own understanding solid\nManufacturing, aerospace, or other hardware-focused industries\nStart-ups or other fast-paced engineering environments\nWhat We Offer\nCompetitive compensation and stock options\nPrivate Medical & Dental\nCycle to work scheme\nLunchtime catering on site\nAbout Us\nThe mission of Cambridge Aerospace is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe. That risk comes from the air - low-cost drones and cruise missiles now manufactured in colossal volumes by our adversaries, ballistic missiles capable of ending the world as we know it, and a new generation of hypersonic weapons that evade every existing defence.\nWe’re building low-cost interceptors that defeat these threats, and the surveillance systems to detect and target them - at a cost taxpayers can afford, at the pace the threat demands, and with sovereign supply chains that assure delivery.\nWe have immense backing from the world’s best venture funds. We’re one of the fastest-growing defence technology companies in history. And we’re hiring the best engineers to prosecute the mission.\nIf you are in the top 1%, willing to work harder than you ever have, build technology better than anyone else, and contribute to the defining challenge of our time, now is the time to join us.\nOur Commitment to Inclusion\nWe’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4320,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Stock options"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-15T01:58:01Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"GB","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker)","filings_12m":null,"filings_prev_12m":null,"green_card_filings_12m":null,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":"Skilled Worker","cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T06:21:15+00:00","sources":["UK Home Office: register of licensed sponsors (workers)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":56,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.555,"p_room":1,"age_days":8,"expected_fill_days":28,"reasons":["conf:3","stale_co","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-15T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/cambridge-aerospace-software-engineer-device-edge-applications","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/cambridge-aerospace-software-engineer-device-edge-applications.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-15T17:10:10Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":25996,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-16T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1966424},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1966424"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcambridge-aerospace-software-engineer-device-edge-applications"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fcambridge-aerospace-software-engineer-device-edge-applications"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fcambridge-aerospace-software-engineer-device-edge-applications"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/cambridge-aerospace-software-engineer-device-edge-applications\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcambridge-aerospace-software-engineer-device-edge-applications"}]}