Skill description
Designing and developing reliable real-time software typically within embedded systems.
Guidance notes
Embedded systems provide dedicated functionality within a larger mechanical or electronic system, often with constraints related to real-time performance, safety, security, and reliability. These systems typically interface with hardware, sensors, and actuators, supporting critical operations in industrial, automotive, aerospace, medical, or robotic equipment, as well as in IoT (Internet of Things) devices and intelligent systems.
These systems usually perform essential functions and have strict requirements for integrity, reliability, safety, security, and power consumption.
Activities may include, but are not limited to:
- defining non-functional system requirements such as performance, reliability, safety, and security, as well as constraints like power, cost, physical space, or response time.
- building in fail-safe or secure characteristics to support graceful degradation.
- applying specialised techniques to ensure systems meet their critical attributes.
- employing comprehensive methods for validation, verification, and testing.
- using virtual or model-based development approaches to simulate, test, and optimise systems throughout the development lifecycle.
- using specialised tools for real-time program and system analysis, validation, and debugging.
Level 2Assist
Designs, builds and tests simple real-time/embedded components as part of an overall larger systems design.
Uses appropriate programming languages to drive simple sensors and actuators.
Applies specialised tools for real-time program analysis and system debugging.
Level 3Apply
Designs, builds and integrates medium-complexity real-time/embedded components as part of an overall larger systems design.
Follows agreed standards and uses specialised tools for system analysis and optimisation.
Drives specialist hardware, typically sensors and actuators, and optimises component code for performance.
Applies a range of approaches to the verification and testing of real-time components.
Level 4Enable
Designs, builds and integrates complex real-time/embedded components and sub-systems.
Designs physical layouts that reflect the connection between system components to test and optimise performance.
Builds system prototypes and simulations to aid development and enable debugging, testing and troubleshooting of embedded software.
Applies a range of approaches to the validation, verification, and testing of real-time components and sub-systems, using a variety of specialist tools for system analysis and optimisation.
Level 5Ensure, advise
Designs and develops real-time/embedded architectures and systems to meet agreed system requirements.
Plans and manages the development of complex real-time/embedded systems and selects the approaches and techniques to be used.
Analyses design options and trade-offs between hardware and software, makes recommendations and assesses and manages associated risks.
Ensures effective validation, verification and testing is undertaken throughout development.
Oversees the integration of multiple sub-systems into the overall system.
Level 6Initiate, influence
Provides overall direction and leadership in the development of real-time/embedded systems.
Develops organisational policies, standards and guidelines for real-time/embedded systems architectures and designs.
Plans and leads strategic, large and complex real-time/embedded system developments.
Identifies opportunities to exploit new technologies and improve existing technologies and practices.
Drives adherence to technical strategies, systems architectures and the implementation of risk-based verification, validation and testing.
Develops effective implementation and procurement strategies.
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