Summary: World leading company, DSP audio software.

This is an outstanding opportunity for a DSP Software Engineer to develop DSP Software for highly optimised DSPs.

The role will involve the understanding and optimisation of audio processing algorithms, their modelling and validation. This will involve contact with the hardware and software departments and occasionally suppliers and customers.

Key responsibilities:

- You will be responsible for the development of DSP audio software, including codecs and advanced features such as comfort noise generation, packet loss concealment and voice activity detection.
- This will include understanding of echo cancellation, latency, noise removal and audio codecs.
- DSP coding in assembler with attention to optimisation.
- Maintaining current and new software.
- Original thought for solving complex problems in a tightly constrained embedded real-time environment.

The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, with recent hands-on experience in the development of DSP software. You will need to show an awareness of the software development process for writing software destined for high volume consumer applications.

Required skills/experience:
Must have:
- DSP assembler software development experience and a good level of system understanding
- Experience of developing and debugging DSP software in a real-time resource-constrained system
- The ability to work in and contribute in a technical environment
- The ability to take ownership of projects with minimum supervision
- The ability to communicate at all levels
- A strong degree in Electronics or similar

Desired skills/experience:
It would be beneficial to have:
- Experience of audio hardware, analysis, testing and system engineering
- Experience of Matlab
- Experience of codecs
- Experience of VoIP and/or 802.11
- Some hardware experience

Summary: Growing, high technology company specialising in knowledge search solutions seeks Software QA / Support Engineer, Cambridge, to £32k.

This growing software company specialises in data mining solutions for blue chip clients. You will be responsible for the development, maintenance and implementation of test scripts for both the GUI and back-end of a real-time information extraction system. Working closely with the development team, you will review feature requirements, produce test plans and carry out testing and analyse the results on Unix and Windows platforms.

Part of the technical support team, you will be taking email and telephone requests for support, diagnosing the problems described, generating and testing solutions and providing a clear response at an appropriate level of detail for the customer.

You will have strong interpersonal and communication skills and be able to work with other staff to get across new ideas and respond to requirements. You must also be able to work in a fast-moving start-up environment, which requires multi-tasking, flexibility and the ability to work in a small, highly motivated team. You will have commercial experience of the full software lifecycle and experience of command-line tools and scripting. Any experience of commercial programming, software validation/QA or compliance will be advantageous.

Keywords: Cambridge, Software QA, Software Support, Command Line Tools, Scripting, Software Test.

Summary: Writing software to test other software.

This world renowned software engineering company develop tools that are used by most of the leading engineering companies. They need outstanding people to work along side their exceptional software developers in a Quality Engineering capacity, to ensure that their software is unbreakable. This is writing software to test other software, using all the latest tools. With good attention to detail, you are likely to have a PhD in Engineering or Physics and have good software skills in C/C++.

Our client is an established, growing company providing software solutions to one of the biggest global industry sectors. And it's a great place to work!

Their tools feature an intuitive and rich user interface designed to make the system accessible to a new users as well as providing powerful facilities to experts. Advanced data visualisation techniques allow users to benefit from rapid access to up-to-date information and make best use of their own expertise to make accurate business decisions.

Software testers are involved in every aspect of our client's software development process from the design stage onwards.

Essential experience is:
- 1yr + testing experience, either commercial or as a placement
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Windows, Word and Excel
- Experience of creating and executing test scripts
- Exposure to various testing techniques (regression, stress, performance, ETE)

These would be a plus:
- Exposure to C++ or other programming languages
- Science-based degree
- Automated testing experience
- Exposure to commercial web application testing

Above all, our client is looking for people who are bright, enthusiastic and self-motivated, who will enjoy the role and integrate well with the existing team. Good communication skills are critical, as is a flexible approach to testing and a sound eye for presentation.

They offer a relaxed yet professional and supportive work environment, and good benefits, helping to make this an excellent opportunity to join an industry leader and be part of their success.

Candidates from fresh gradate upwards will be considered.

Key words: software testing, software QA, Windows, test scripts, stress testing, automated testing, graduate, Cambridge

Summary: This is a unique opportunity for a top embedded software engineer / consultant to help shape the future of digital content delivery. To £50k + benefits.

Our client is a private research institute who undertake research in the field of advanced digital technologies such as set-top boxes, digital TV, DVB, broadband, IP networking, DRM and DVDs. They provide strategic technical advice to high tech companies in their region on a consultancy basis.

They now have a vacancy for a research engineer with a background in embedded software development for digital TV / set-top boxes to become an expert in present and future technologies in this sector. Through a combination of in-house research, participation in industry forums and collaboration with industry leaders you will assess the feasibility of arising technologies and generate in-house intellectual property.

To fulfil this role you will be degree educated in computer science or electronic engineering with a good level of commercial experience as an embedded software engineer working on the development and delivery of advanced digital products. Candidates from academia will be considered if you have performed outstanding relevant research at doctoral / post-doctoral level. Either way you will be passionate about this field and capable of working in a consultant-style role, which will include technical analysis, creative problem solving and authoring consultancy-grade white papers.

In return you will receive a generous salary, an excellent benefits package and a chance to play a key role in shaping the future of this rapidly-advancing technology sector. Apply now.

Keywords: Embedded software, consultancy, set-top boxes, digital TV, broadband, IMS, DRM, peer-to-peer, IP networks, DVB, MPEG, TCP/IP, GSM

With this leading scientific software company with a global presence.

This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled Project Manager to join our client's solutions group. This team designs custom solutions for R&D organizations using robust workflow and pipelining technologies, resulting in high-performance results and rapidly delivering new solutions. As a Project Manager, you will have the opportunity to project manage life-cycle deliverables and resource availability as well as manage the risks during the delivery of these solutions.

To qualify for this role you will hold a BSc in a scientific or engineering discipline, ideally a PhD and you will be an expert in project management methodology and managing agile software development projects (XP & SCRUM). The ability to understand and successfully manage internal and external customer stakeholders is fundamental to the role and as well as excellent presentation, written and verbal communication skills you must be willing and prepared to travel for up to 30% of the time.

An excellent benefits package and an attractive salary are on offer for the right candidate.

Keywords: project manager, BSc/PhD, agile development, eXtreme Programming, SCRUM, travel

An outstanding opportunity for an experienced Software Manager to join this successful company as a Group Leader.

Your responsibilities will include staff welfare, technical direction and the day to day working within the group. It is expected that you will delegate and involve group members in some of these activities, however you will have ultimate responsibility within the group. You will also have responsibility for the day to day management of small to medium sized software projects run within the software department. This will involve planning, tracking, resource allocation and general issue resolution of a software project. These projects will typically have about 10 software engineers working across multiple discipline areas and/or software groups within R&D. This will also include liaison with other project managers and programme management within the company and reporting progress to line management and programme management.

Person Specification:

Required:

• Man management skills
• Wide ranging software development experience
• Detailed knowledge of software project management
• Previous experience successfully managing and delivering software developments to schedule and budget
• Previous team lead and/or line management experience
• Some domain specific knowledge – API control, host transport knowledge, Bluetooth stack overall knowledge

Desired:

• Domain environment knowledge – real-time software development techniques
• Knowledge of alternate software development practices – waterfall, iterative, agile etc

A great opportunity for the right person to be part of this success story!

Summary: Innovative Java Software Engineer with good academic background; Small, motivated team; Full contribution to the research / design of innovative next-generation products; Good benefits including share options, flexible working / working from home.

Do you have the drive and passion to help to grow an innovative software business and, as part of the company’s success, benefit significantly from your personal contribution? This is a fantastic opportunity for a bright, experienced Java Software Engineer to join a small, innovative software team to work on next-generation products.

This fast growing information management consultancy and software provider have developed a number of market-leading software products to enable their growing list of blue chip clients in the Legal, Banking, Property and Education sectors to gain significant gains.

They have now identified a significant opportunity for further growth and seek a talented, ambitious software developer to join their team at this important stage - to help to research / design and architect this new application.

You will be involved in all stages of the software development process, from concept to design, implementation and testing and will be expected to contribute ideas and help solve technical and design problems, in addition to writing code.

You will also further develop a number of their existing, successful products – and will gain good exposure to a wide range of technologies and ideas. Software development is very much a team effort with all developers working closely - they are passionate about their software and pride themselves on having introduced some very innovative technology to the industry.

In addition to an impressive academic record, you should offer significant commercial development experience in Java – ideally gained through the development of large, innovative software applications. Experience in related areas such as Swing, SQL & JDBC / Persistence Frameworks would also be expected.

In addition to a good base salary the position offers share options along with other benefits, including flexible working, and the possibility of working from home for some of the time as the projects progress.

Key words: Java, Swing, SQL, JDBC / Persistence Frameworks.

Work with the latest technologies and modern software development techniques.

Our market-leading client develops and sells enterprise planning and resource management software to organisations around the world.

They are actively seeking talented, experienced Software Developers to develop applications and utilities. You will be expected to employ the highest standards of software development and industry best practice.

Experience of developing software within a Microsoft development environment using Visual Studio, C#.Net and integrating with SQL Server & Oracle Databases is required.

Any experience with the following is useful:

- database notification, reporting technologies and XML data structures, schema creation and maintenance

- complex data models and mathematical algorithms; enterprise scale systems

Also knowledge of developing web applications with ASP.Net, a full understanding of OOP, client/server and n-tier development methodologies is required, and exposure to agile or related methodologies would be advantageous.

This opportunity represents an excellent prospect for someone to increase their knowledge of software development within an enterprise software development house; working for a company that is dynamic, within a relaxed but focused working environment.

Keywords: .NET, C#, ASP, SQL, OOP, Oracle, agile methods

Summary: This is an excellent "foot-in-the-door" opportunity for an engineer looking to enter the exciting world of commercial software. Cambridge, to £28k + good benefits.

Our client produces specialist software for use in the materials science and materials engineering realm. Their software is used all over the world in the aerospace, defence, medical device, automotive and consumer electronics industries as well as in higher education. Increasingly their software is being used for ecologically sound design which helps reduce CO2 emissions and carbon footprints.

They now have a vacancy for a software quality assurance engineer to ensure their web and PC-based software continues to be of the highest specifications. This role involves creating and maintaining test environments for automation, threshold, stability and benchmark testing. You may not necessarily have experience in software testing, but you will have an understanding of engineering principles and the use of technical software (from an engineering degree or similar). Furthermore you will be diligent, believing that "things should work properly" and will have a keen eye for detail.

Keywords: Engineering, materials science, technical software, testing, quality assurance.