Software Research Engineer Location: Bristol Salary: Up to £57,000 Are you a software engineer with a research bias looking for an opportunity to influence how a company deliver software engineering? If you are, and you’re interested in working with a company offering the chance to work on cutting-edge projects, career growth, and the chance to make a real impact on national security, then this is the role for you. As a Software Research Engineer, you will represent the business within an Enterprise industry partnership, where there is an opportunity to collaborate across the industry through events and workshops within a 3-nation programme! As part of your role, you will research proposals to help answer the methodology behind defining and delivering software, covering all aspects of tools, techniques, standards, and engineering management. You’d be working with UK universities and Small/Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to undertake research in support of current and future topics. You will also have the opportunity to propose and sponsor projects within the Early Careers Programme (ECP), where the results will be published externally but also used to help embed any knowledge and technologies within the business. Collaboration is key within the role both externally within the partnership and internally with key communities with regular engagement with technical experts, software architects and special interest groups. You will also have the opportunity to influence the Software Engineering technology strategy, identifying new technologies, new methods and tools, future capabilities. Headline Benefits: A bonus of up to £2,500, Paid Overtime, Strong pension, 25 days annual leave with the option to accrue 15 additional days flexi leave, enhanced parental leave, hybrid working (3 to 4 days on-site per week) Software Research Engineer experience required. * Experience in leading research activities relating to the delivery of software * A breadth of Software Engineering experience * Able to prioritise research activities * Able to communicate clearly and precisely at different levels, including influencing collaborators and internal customers. * Support the governance of the organisation by producing or contributing to reports and presentations * Able to progress updates with the various universities/SMEs as required * Ability to find or create opportunities to share knowledge internally with Technical Experts, domain experts and Group Leads * Travel and occasional overnight stays will be required The business believes in offering all staff the best platform to succeed, supporting career development and personal assistance. They hold numerous awards on the back of this work and have a range of employee networks and internal communities that include Parents and Carers, Armed Forces, Gender Equality, Neurodiversity, Pride, Ethnic Diversity and many more. They care about their staff and are passionate about what they do and why they do it. Their order book stretches for many years, and they have healthy profits and a range of new long-term projects. They’re stable with steady, controlled growth, offer dynamic working, and fantastic opportunities to grow and develop your career. Cirrus Selection offers the services of an Employment Agency for permanent recruitment and the services of an Employment Business for contract recruitment