Contract Software Engineer – C++ / Robotics
📍 London or Leonberg | Hybrid
💼 Full-time Contract
The Opportunity
My client is looking for a strong C++ Software Engineer to help productionise the robotics software powering its autonomous driving technology.
This is a hands-on engineering role focused on taking complex robotics and research code and turning it into robust, maintainable, production-grade libraries suitable for automotive deployment.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Productionising and refactoring C++ robotics libraries
- Working across localisation, odometry, calibration, state estimation and sensor fusion
- Improving APIs, architecture, testing, dependency management and maintainability
- Supporting localisation and odometry work for automotive programmes
- Assessing existing research/prototype code and determining how it should be adapted or redesigned
- Working towards automotive-grade production and compliance requirements
- Collaborating with robotics, vehicle software and engineering teams
- Making practical decisions around third-party and internal libraries
- Documenting solutions and transferring knowledge to the permanent team
What They’re Looking For
- Strong commercial C++ software engineering experience
- Experience building or productionising software libraries
- Background in robotics, automotive, autonomy, drones, aerospace, mapping or another complex technical environment
- Experience with at least one of:
- Localisation
- Odometry
- Calibration
- State estimation
- Sensor fusion
- Strong understanding of software architecture, APIs and modular design
- Experience writing robust tests for complex C++ systems
- Comfortable taking research/prototype code and turning it into production-quality software
- Able to work independently and quickly get up to speed in complex codebases
Nice to Have
- Automotive-grade software experience
- MISRA / ISO 26262 / ASIL
- Numerical optimisation or solver libraries
- Experience with safety-critical systems
- Experience working with third-party library replacement, wrapping or redesign
- Experience building software for physical systems such as vehicles, robots, drones or spacecraft
