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Software Engineer

Engineering – Data Applications · Woking, Surrey

About us

The world around us is experiencing significant change, the greatest in generations. 

 

At McLaren Applied, we’re accelerating the response to that change. Our vision is that our people and technologies will pioneer a better future.  Our mission is to achieve breakthroughs in performance.

 

We’re at the cutting edge of innovation in industries including automotive transportation and motorsport. We create solutions that drive efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

 

We want to help to reduce the carbon footprint and become more sustainable.  Our focus is on electrification and telemetry, control and analytics.

 

To deliver efficient lightweight electric powertrain and vehicle development; motorsport solutions that make series more sustainable and efficient; reliable connectivity solutions for transportation and insightful analytics and monitoring of transport fleets.

 

By applying our expertise, we deliver real benefits and pioneer a better future.

 

 

What you'll be doing

Our agile cross functional portfolio teams work collaboratively to solve interesting and challenging problems in industries we participate in. Typically, our teams comprise of Data Scientists and/or Simulation Engineers, Full Stack Software Engineers, Test Engineers, System Reliability Engineers (DevOps) and Systems Engineers.

 

You will become one of our key contributors who guide and foster innovation by developing leading edge products that span various market segments including transportation, automotive and motorsport.  

 

As a Software Engineer who is passionate about technology, you will use the most effective and applicable technologies to create scalable, high-performance wireless networking solutions for fleets of vehicles and other physical assets.

 

You will develop and maintain reusable software components for a combination of off-the-shelf and bespoke hardware ranging from cloud-based servers to resource-constrained embedded units.

 

You will learn how to leverage existing open source software to extend our capabilities, integrating and tailoring software to suit customers’ needs, through clean and consistent coding.

 

 

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proficiency in one or more general purpose programming languages.
• Experience in Python.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering and best practices for the full software development life cycle.
• A logical, analytical, and creative approach to problem-solving.
• Fluent in spoken and written English.

 

 

What else you could bring:

• Coding for Linux Systems.
• Networking Knowledge and Experience.
• Cloud Software Development.
• Understanding of agile or lean development practices.