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CAE USA INC Junior / Graduate Software Engineer - Flight Simulator Development in Benson, United Kingdom
Role and Responsibilities
About the role
We are currently recruiting for a Junior / Graduate Software Engineer to join our Simulator Engineering team who are responsible for the maintenance and upgrade of our Helicopter Simulators based at RAF Benson. In this role you will be providing technical and operations support including software configuration, control maintenance, fault finding and some support software development for our flight simulators.This is an exciting role with a varied list of tasks – you could be developing software code, scripts and other system configurations to implement new flight systems to the simulator, integrating new functionality, or performing software investigation’s fault finding to maintain the availability of the simulators for flight training.
This role is based onsite at RAF Benson so you would be working 5 days a week at Benson. Before applying, please ensure that the daily commute works for you given the sites remote location as there aren't many public transport options available and we want to make sure it's a good fit for you
This role will require you to work the rotating shifts as below;
Early Shift – Monday to Thursday 06:00 – 14:00 and Friday 06:00 – 13:00
Late Shift – Monday to Thursday 14:00 – 22:00 and Friday 13:00 – 20:00
Key responsibilities
Collaborate with senior engineers to design, develop, and maintain flight simulator software applications.
Executing assigned software development tasks and coding of software.
Performance of various testing such as debugging and robustness testing.
Provide accurate estimates for completion of software tasks identifying potential risks
Investigate faults from simulator users.
About you
This is an entry level role and would suit a fresh or recent graduate, with a degree or similar in Software Engineering. This role will require you do be hands on with the Simulators, so would suit someone with an interest in Hardware and its relationship with Software.
Must have good experience writing C/C++ or C# or Fortran as part of your studies
Previous experience with game development or simulation software development is advantageous but not required.
The ability to demonstrate initiative, creativity and resourcefulness in an agile development team
As part of our investment in skills and ongoing growth we use Pluralsight alongside on the job training, so the ideal candidate needs to be happy to use this platform and type of learning to develop their skill set.
Please note
Applicants must have the right to live and work in UK.
Some activities will require travel in the UK and abroad and occasionally require overtime and weekend working.
Applicants must be able to obtain or transfer Security Clearance which the Company sponsors (applicants must have lived continuously in the UK for the past 5 years in order to obtain security clearance) or currently holds NATO SC level Security Clearance that can be transferred from overseas to the UK. If you don’t meet this requirement we cannot proceed with your application
Strictly No Agencies
Position Type
Regular
CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.
Equal Employment Opportunity
At CAE, everyone is welcome to contribute to our success. With no exception.
As captured in our overarching value "One CAE", we’re proud to work as one passionate, boundaryless and inclusive team.
At CAE, all employees are welcome regardless of race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity or age.
At CAE, we equip people in critical roles with the expertise and solutions to create a safer world. As a technology company, we digitalize the physical world, deploying simulation training and critical operations support solutions. Above all else, we empower pilots, airlines, defence and security forces, and healthcare practitioners to perform at their best every day and when the stakes are the highest. Around the globe, we’re everywhere customers need us to be with more than 13,000 employees in more than 200 sites and training locations in over 40 countries. CAE represents 75 years of industry firsts—the highest-fidelity flight and mission simulators, surgical manikins, and personalized training programs powered by artificial intelligence. We’re investing our time and resources into building the next generation of cutting-edge, digitally immersive training and critical operations solutions while keeping positive environmental, social and governance (ESG) impact at the core of our mission. Today and tomorrow, we’ll make sure our customers are ready for the moments that matter.