Software Engineer - Future ASW

Unleash the Power of Multi-Mission Excellence: Safeguarding the Seas for the World's Navies.

Step into a world where cutting-edge technology meets unparalleled expertise. Ultra Maritime pioneers delivering multi-mission solutions that protect and empower the naval forces worldwide. With our extensive portfolio of capabilities, our innovations are utilised on naval fleets across our allied navies around the globe.

As the maritime and underwater battlespace evolves, we tirelessly push the boundaries to develop advanced specialist systems that provide our 'five-eyes' Defence customers with an unbeatable warfighting edge. From surface vessels to sub-surface operations and unmanned platforms, we are revolutionizing the way naval missions are executed.

We thrive on collaboration and partnering with our customers to ensure mission success. Our expert solutions encompass an array of game-changing technologies, including state-of-the-art sonar, radar, expendables, signature management, and naval power systems.

Join us in shaping the future of naval warfare and together, we will safeguard the seas and empower navies worldwide!

Flexible Working

At Ultra Maritime, we understand that your personal life is just as important as your professional one. That's why we support and promote flexible working arrangements where possible. Whether you prefer a hybrid model, working remotely, or the structure of being on-site, we will support you as best as we can. Embrace the freedom to shape your work hours according to your needs, whether it's part-time, compressed hours, or a unique arrangement that suits your lifestyle.

Loudwater, Greenford, and Weymouth exclusively offer a 9-day fortnight working pattern, offering extended weekends every other week, granting you more time to pursue your passions. And that's not all – we provide flexible start and finish times.

It's the 'innovating' and 'empowering' values that we ASPIRE to be. We welcome the challenge to work in new ways and have trust in you when getting the job done because we recognise, our business is our people.

Job Description

A part of the Ultra Maritime Group, we are a UK based solutions provider and systems integrator operating in the Defence and Aerospace markets, delivering world leading products, solutions and services to our national and international customers.

We are currently seeking to recruit audacious and highly capable people to work on cutting edge technologies and inspire our up-and-coming team members to deliver best in class results.

At Ultra you will:

• be part of an agile organisation, with the ability to make a real difference.
• can be involved in multiple domains and projects, throughout the engineering lifecycle.
• work in a dynamic environment, with the ability to make significant personal impact.
• have exposure to all functional and business areas, with opportunities to broaden your knowledge.
• be in an environment where talent is recognised and promoted, independent of experience.
• can work on exciting new product developments.
• work for the dominant provider of UK surface ship Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) solutions, with many related export opportunities.

We operate in the following areas:

Underwater Warfare: this includes working on game changing naval Integrated Sonar System (ISS), hull mounted anti-submarine warfare sonar system, towed array sonar systems, surface ship and submarine torpedo defence and countermeasures, and distributed anti-submarine warfare systems (sonobuoys), including Multi-Static Active (MSA) technologies.

Maritime: this includes new build and modernisation solutions for naval combat systems, combat management systems, electro optical surveillance and tracking, weapon fire control and servo control and signature measurement solutions for both surface and sub-surface platforms.

Benefits

Ultra Electronics offers a competitive salary, bonus scheme based on company profit/cash targets, 25 days’ holiday with the option to buy additional 5 days, a flexible benefits scheme you can tailor to suit your needs, a competitive Pension scheme with Life Assurance, flexible start/finish times including the option to work a 9-day fortnight with every other Friday off and a confidential Employee Support Helpline

Purpose of Role

Due to the increasing demands to support both existing and forthcoming projects, Ultra are looking for talented and experienced software engineers to come into our team to help develop the next generation of Sonar Systems for our ASW product line. 

Ultra prides itself on world class engineering, delivering agile solutions to a wide range of customers across the world. With sites in the UK, Canada, and Australia the opportunities for the right candidates are extremely exciting.

Ultra is currently on a journey to improve the experience for its extremely capable development teams by adopting more Agile methods with DevOps playing an increasingly important role as we scale up the level of Continuous Integration and Automation in our delivery pipelines.

 As a result, we can provide the opportunity to work with some extremely bright and talented people, embedding the skills of mathematicians and physicists into signal processing and artificial intelligence that operates at the cutting edge of the defence industry.

In this role you will be working with a team of 50+ software developers designing, implementing, and testing solutions for sonar systems that will be delivered to a wide variety of different Navy’s from across the world.

Consequently, we have an immediate and ongoing requirement for passionate Software Engineers with strong software development skills in multithreaded C++, that have previously been applied in a similar domain, ideally in a Sonar or Radar context but applicants with relevant experience from other domains are also welcome.

Key Responsibilities

• Software architectural design using UML and the Enterprise Architect tool.
• Software Implementation and test in C++ including unit and continuous integration testing.
• Pride in the development of good quality well thought-out code.
• Peer reviewing the design and code of others and contributing to a community where learning and feedback is valued.
• Integration, defect analysis and resolution to assist the verification teams with their work.
• Progression of assigned stories and tasks in a product backlog using the Azure DevOps tool including estimation of remaining work.
• Periodic verbal reporting of progress and contributing to sprint planning and retrospectives.

Skills, Qualification and Experience

• Good experience in C++ development
• Good experience in multi-threaded design
• Good experience in UML design techniques
• Good experience of the full software development lifecycle
• Experience of Machine Learning or AI would be an advantage.
• Experience of Python would be an advantage.
• Experience of packaging tools and repositories such as Conan and Nexus would also be an advantage.

Personal Attributes

• Currently holding or capable of holding UK SC clearance.
• Commuting distance of our Weymouth office

Relocation Support

Attracting high-level talent and people that can add value and expertise, is vital to our success. Attracting and retaining brilliant people is imperative so that’s why we search across the UK for talent. We offer financial support to candidates that are considering relocating; this is considered on a case-by-case basis per role and subject to HMRC guidelines.

Nationality Requirements

Candidates must be eligible to obtain the relevant security clearance required for the role, due to the nature of the programmes we deliver for our customers.

Diverse & Inclusive Employer

Ultra Maritime is an equal opportunities employer that values diversity, inclusion, equity and equality. Underpinned by our values, behaviours, and policies, we want you to feel empowered to be your best and authentic self.

We promote a workplace that welcomes people from all backgrounds and cultures; believing that this will increase our diversity of thinking, and ultimately ensure we continue delivering on our commitments to our customers.

We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status and welcome applications from all candidates.