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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer - **Company:** Cerca Magnetics - **Location:** Nottingham, UK - **Salary:** £45,000.0 - £58,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** C (Programming Language), Adobe InDesign, Systems Engineering, C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Computer Programming, Software Debugging, Python (Programming Language), LabVIEW, MATLAB, Pascal (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Information Technology - **Published:** June 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=393ebf25b67144c6 ## About the Role Do you have experience in MATLAB?, * Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience). * Professional software engineering experience delivering production-quality software (typically 3+ years, or equivalent). * Strong fundamentals in design, debugging, maintainability, and testability. Programming experience in languages such as Object Pascal, Matlab, Python, LabVIEW, C, C++, C# (or similar). * Comfortable collaborating across disciplines and communicating technical decisions clearly. Desirable (nice to have): * Experience in a start-up, R&D, or fast-paced product development environment. * Experience with, or solid understanding of, medical device development and standards (e.g., IEC 62304, ISO 13485), including DHF/design controls. * Familiarity with risk-based development (hazards, mitigations, traceability to tests) and usability/human factors concepts as they relate to software. What you will bring to Cerca: * Technical Skills: A solid foundation in software development, with an eagerness to learn and apply best practices for medical-device software. * Ownership: You deliver not just code, but reliable, supportable software with the evidence to back it up. * Quality mindset: You value testing, documentation and traceability as part of building safe systems. * Collaboration: You work well with engineers, scientists and hardware specialists to solve real problems. * Curiosity & pace: You enjoy learning, improving, and building something genuinely novel and impactful. ## Description As a Software Engineer at Cerca, you'll help build the software that controls and acquires data from our wearable OPM-MEG scanners. You'll work at the hardware-software interface in a multidisciplinary team, delivering production-quality software while contributing to a regulated development approach-DHF-ready documentation, risk management, usability considerations, and verification/validation evidence. Key role focus areas: * Design, develop and maintain software for our upcoming medical device, owning features from concept through release. * Write clean, well-structured, well-documented code and support effective peer review. * Collaborate with hardware and systems engineers to integrate software with our OPM-MEG systems (control, instrumentation, and data acquisition). * Plan and execute verification & validation activities: develop tests, run them, analyse results, and produce objective evidence (plans/reports). * Contribute to Design Controls / DHF artefacts: requirements, traceability, risk controls, release and configuration records. * Support risk management by identifying software hazards/failure modes, implementing mitigations, and linking them to verification evidence. * Support usability-related software aspects (safe workflows, clear error handling/messages) with testable outputs and appropriate documentation. * Help create and maintain documentation aligned to medical device expectations (e.g., IEC 62304; ISO 13485 environment). * Provide remote support to software deployed at customer sites, including issue triage and controlled fixes/releases. ## Related Videos - [Leveraging Large Language Models for Legacy Code Translation: Challenges and Solutions](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1157-leveraging-large-language-models-for-legacy-code-translation-challenges-and-solutions) - [More efficient software for more efficient microchips](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1164-more-efficient-software-for-more-efficient-microchips) - [Building a hypercar from scratch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/607-building-a-hypercar-from-scratch) - [Software stack under and over the hood of the fastest accelerating car in the world](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/221-software-stack-under-and-over-the-hood-of-the-fastest-accelerating-car-in-the-world) - [Agile work at CARIAD – Creating a customer web application for controlling the vehicle ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/200-agile-work-at-cariad-creating-a-customer-web-application-for-controlling-the-vehicle) ## Related Articles - [Is Software Engineering Hard?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/448-is-software-engineering-hard) - [What is Software Engineering?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/289-what-is-software-engineering) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [Software Engineer Career: Things You Should Know](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/143-software-engineer-career-things-you-should-know) - [Where to Find Entry-Level Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/397-where-to-find-entry-level-software-engineering-jobs) - [Software Engineer Salary London](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/252-software-engineer-salary-london)