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# Software Systems Engineer / Architect

- **Company:** ECM Selection Limited
- **Location:** Cambridge, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Software Tools, Software Systems
- **Published:** August 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.ecmselection.co.uk/register/27615

## About the Role

* Significant experience and understanding of software systems engineering as a discipline, as applied to complex software products and ideally with notable hardware elements.
 * Strong analytical and problem solving skills applicable to a variety of problem domains to produce clean architecture: divide and conquer, hierarchical decomposition, etc.
 * Experience specifying and architecting automated, orchestrated, networked and/or distributed software systems, where workflow is a consideration.
 * Hands on software skills which you may apply towards prototyping, exploring designs for testability, guiding hardware selection, etc.

You may have gained this experience in a variety of sectors (e.g. science and technology, scientific instrumentation, industrial automation, defence, automotive, maritime, aerospace).



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