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Our award-winning technologies are trusted by defence, security, and industrial customers in over 70 countries. With in-house R&D, cutting-edge innovation, and a global reputation for quality, we design and manufacture solutions that perform in the toughest environments.Due to increasing market opportunities and an ever-growing product range, Thermoteknix is expanding its engineering capacity by expanding the New Product Introduction (NPI) team within R&D.\nWe are looking for an exceptionally motivated graduate software engineer who is passionate about software and enjoys solving difficult engineering problems. This is a hands-on role for someone who wants to apply strong software engineering skills to real products, working at the intersection of software, electronics, firmware, automation, and manufacturing.\nYou will have the opportunity to develop software that directly interacts with sophisticated hardware and plays a critical role in bringing new products from development into production. You will work alongside experienced software, electronics, mechanical, manufacturing and quality engineers, while helping to shape the software and automation capability of a new NPI team.\nAbout You\nAs a member of the NPI team, you will be responsible for developing and supporting the software-driven automation and test systems used to transition products from development into scalable, repeatable manufacturing.You will work closely with R&D, manufacturing, and quality teams, applying strong software engineering principles to implement comprehensive automated testing and validation processes.\nAdditionally, you will contribute to the enhancement of existing software to improve production test speed, reliability and capability, ensuring that products are thoroughly tested and validated before reaching customers.\nThis is an opportunity for a graduate who wants to become an outstanding software engineer while working on real-world products and complex hardware/software systems.\nKey Responsibilities\nSupport software and test design processes, ensuring DFT principles are applied throughout the product development lifecycle.\nSupport software and test workstreams within NPI projects, ensuring readiness for build and scale, and supporting the transition of products through to customer delivery.\nDefine and implement robust processes for firmware programming, product configuration, calibration data handling and version control in production builds.\nDefine, develop, and document automated test processes during product development for new products and assemblies.\nWork with mechanical and electronics engineers within the NPI team to design automated electromechanical test systems that optimise production throughput and ensure product quality.\nDrive improvements in manufacturing readiness by identifying and implementing opportunities to streamline production test and build times.\nProvide hands-on support during NPI builds, troubleshooting software, automation, and hardware-integrated system issues within the ECN framework.\nWork with the quality department to support non-conformance investigations and product quality improvements during NPI phases.\nContribute to the development of the new NPI team’s standards and processes.\nContinuously look for opportunities to improve software quality, automation, test coverage, reliability and development processes.\nRequired Skills & Experience\n\nWe are looking for a strong software engineering graduate with excellent fundamentals, curiosity and a genuine enthusiasm for building software.\nDegree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline.\nStrong software engineering fundamentals and an ability to understand and solve complex technical problems.\nStrong experience developing software in C#, with knowledge of WPF and MVVM methodologies.\nExperience developing software tools, applications or automation projects, ideally involving interaction with hardware or real-world systems, through academic, personal or professional projects.\nUnderstanding of software development practices including source control, testing, debugging, release processes and configuration control.\nAbility to troubleshoot software issues and communicate effectively with embedded hardware-integrated systems.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills.\nStrong documentation skills and attention to detail.\nAbility to create technical documentation and work within controlled software development and change management processes.\nAbility to work cross-functionally in a fast-paced engineering environment.\nCommercial industry experience is not required. We are more interested in strong software engineering ability, technical curiosity and the drive to learn than years of industry experience. Academic, personal, placement and internship projects are all relevant.\nDesirable Skills & Experience\nFamiliarity with embedded firmware programming tools.\nKnowledge of manufacturing test systems, calibration workflows, and automation frameworks.\nKnowledge of additional programming languages such as LabVIEW and C/C++.\nExperience or academic/personal project exposure developing software that communicates with hardware, instruments, sensors or embedded systems.\nUnderstanding of engineering change control, ISO 9001 environments, and traceability requirements\nExposure to thermal imaging products, or real-time embedded systems.\nExposure to the design or use of jigs, fixtures, tooling, or electronic test equipment through academic, personal or project-based work.\nPersonal Attributes\nPassionate about software and genuinely enjoys writing code.\nNaturally curious and keen to understand how things work, from software through to electronics and hardware.\nHands-on, proactive, and solution-focused.\nEnjoys tackling difficult technical problems and finding practical solutions.\nStrong communication skills with engineering and production stakeholders.\nComfortable working across both software development and physical engineering environments.\nDriven to improve processes and software quality and deliver manufacturing excellence.\nSelf-motivated and keen to learn from experienced engineers while contributing ideas of your own.\nWho We Are Looking For\nThis role would suit a graduate who has gone beyond simply completing their degree and has demonstrated a genuine passion for software engineering.\nPerhaps you have built software projects during university or in your own time, contributed to open-source projects, developed tools for yourself or others, competed in programming or engineering challenges, or simply spend your free time learning new technologies and understanding how things work.\nYou do not need to have years of manufacturing experience. What matters is that you have strong software fundamentals, intellectual curiosity, a high level of technical ability and a desire to become an exceptional engineer.\nIf you love software, enjoy solving problems and want to see your code interact with real products and hardware, we would like to hear from you.\n Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. 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