Your Opportunity to Define Possible. Our Opportunity to Deliver the Nation’s Security. Together.

Role Clearance Type:

You must be able to gain and maintain UK Government clearance

Location: Remote / Customer Site (Fareham/Gosport)

About Your Opportunity:

A rare opportunity to work at the very front end of the UK MODs operational analysis community.

As a software engineer, you will work within our sprint teams on a variety of high profile projects evaluating the latest military technology to counter the current and future threats our country faces.

Your Benefits:

• Flexible working schedules - we offer flexibility to move between projects, including internal research and development work looking at new technologies and business opportunities, plus flexible working patterns and hybrid working arrangements.
• Flexible Benefits Package – choose which NGUKL benefits you want to satisfy your personal needs. Core Benefits provided for you are Healthcare, Dental, Life Assurance and Pension. Benefits you can flex include Critical Illness Cover, Health Cash Plan, and Health Assessments.
• Employee Incentive Programme – exceptional performance is recognized through our annual incentive programme which is awarded to top performers who excel
• Career Development – opportunity for ongoing professional development and career growth opportunities

Your Responsibilities:

• Development of constructive and real-time Modelling and Simulation (M&S) models and scenarios using a combination of Python, C++ and custom scripting languages using object-oriented design techniques
• Visualise analytical data extracted from these models
• Work closely with the customer to develop threat laydowns and simulation capabilities representing advanced weapon system concepts, and implement those concepts.
• Frequent communication across the engineering disciplines/technology areas with internal stakeholders and external customers
• Ability to commute to customer site (Fareham/Gosport) where the majority of work takes place (remote working at other times)

Your Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline
• Proven experience in design, development, test and integration of quality software
• Experience in object-orientated software design and programming using Python and C++ (or similar languages)
• General knowledge of real-time target environments, including processor and network architectures, communication protocols and simulation frameworks.
• General Systems Engineering skills (requirements definition, requirements analysis, functional design/decomposition, enterprise modelling, test & acceptance)

Your Future Team:

“My aim is to build a software team that attracts the strongest candidates, and allows them to reach their full potential in a trusted environment with excellent job security and growth prospects.”