About This Role
Brunel has partnered with a leading resources company on a contract opportunity for an Embedded Developer. This role suits someone with collision avoidance systems experience who can deliver safety-critical, production-grade software for real-time environments.
This role will design, implement, and optimise safety-critical decision-making software that prevents collisions across heavy mobile equipment. Working within a cross-functional autonomy squad, you'll deliver production-grade C/C++ components that integrate sensors, localisation, mapping, and control to ensure reliable fail-operational behaviour in dynamic, mixed-traffic environments.
Key Responsibilities:
Build collision avoidance components with a focus on performance, safety, modularity, testability, observability, and redundancy.
Uplift an existing codebase to production standard, including compliance with MISRA or similar guidelines.
Analyse field data and telemetry to scope and deliver new features that improve real-world performance.
Produce and maintain technical design documentation, safety cases, interface specifications, and operational guidance.
Perform hazard analysis and FMEA, and develop and validate safety-related functions and diagnostics.
Lead reviews of requirements and architecture, defining clear component boundaries and interfaces.
Run code, design, and test reviews to meet coding standards, safety requirements, and established practices.
Create and maintain unit, integration, HIL, and simulation-based tests, including regression suites for edge cases and collision scenarios.
Support field triage and root-cause resolution using logs, telemetry, and simulation reproductions.
Mentor engineers in modern C/C++, safe concurrency, numerical robustness, and data-driven validation.
Requirements
3+ years' experience delivering real-time or near real-time systems in C/C++.
Experience across collision avoidance, motion planning, or ADAS, including control integration.
Strong modelling capability for control and planning (kinematic/dynamic models, constraints, feasibility).
Modern C++ (C++17+), performance optimisation, and strong engineering workflows (CMake, Docker, Git/PRs/CI).
Linux and networking fundamentals, plus observability practices (metrics, tracing, structured logs).
Safety-critical development experience, including safety mechanisms, watchdogs, and degraded modes.
Familiarity with standards such as MISRA/AUTOSAR and static analysis tooling.
Experience with DDS and/or ROS 2 in distributed systems (QoS, message schemas, lifecycle nodes).
Ability to scope work and estimate effort accurately.
Highly regarded:
V2X / DSRC communications experience.
Data-driven collision avoidance, PID control, brake control algorithms.
GPS/GNSS experience.
Embedded software delivery in production environments (mining, automotive, rail).
Benefits
About Brunel:
Brunel is a recruitment and flexible workforce solution provider which connects talented people with opportunities throughout Australasia and around the world. We specialise in highly skilled roles across a variety of technical, professional, trades and craft disciplines, pairing candidates with industry-leading projects and organisations on a contract, permanent or secondment basis.
Operating in Australasia since 1997, Brunel has major bases of operation in Perth, Sydney, Brisbane and Port Moresby, which are further backed by the strength and reach of a truly global network spanning over 45 countries, 120 offices and 45 years of successful operation.
Brunel is proud to be equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and female candidates.
How to apply:
If you meet the above requirements and would like to be considered for this role, please submit your interest using the 'Apply' button. Applying is quick and easy - just make sure you have the following documents ready to go:
Resume
Cover Letter (optional)