Our products are in use across all forms of entertainment from the largest of world tours to the smallest of nightclubs. We build products which inspire creativity and enable lighting designers to create the shows you will have seen at festivals, concerts & on TV. We produce market leading lighting control hardware and software solutions and develop lighting networking hardware for permanent and temporary applications.

We are a friendly group of over 45 team members based here in Southampton and part of a wider group which employs over 350 people with offices in Nottingham, Miami, California, Mexico, Paris, and Belgium. We work closely together to embrace challenges and seek ways to innovate and enhance our products for the ever-evolving entertainment industry.

If you are interested in playing a role in helping lighting designers and operators create memorable experiences with ground-breaking control solutions, check out some of the awesome opportunities we have to join our company below.

Current Job Oportunities

UK Trainer & Product Specialist

We are seeking a UK Trainer & Product Specialist to join our ambitious and growing team helping to enhance sales and marketing activities, including interacting with and supporting our Sales, Marketing and Product Development teams with efforts to promote ChamSys products and to educate, support and train lighting designers, specifiers, current and prospective customers, end users and other market participants on ChamSys products.

Main Responsibilities: 

• Assist Sales, Marketing, Product Development and other Company teams with product demonstrations, responding to customer questions and other activities in connection with the promotion and sale of ChamSys products.
• Work with our UK Sales, Marketing, Product Development, Product Support and other Company teams to provide product training (in-person and on-line) to customers, end users, lighting designers, specifiers and other market participants.
• Collect feedback/intel from lighting designers, specifiers, end users, customers and other market participants to understand their needs, build relationships, secure product specification opportunities and to stay abreast of competitor products and new technologies.
• Assist with the organization and execution of tradeshows, dealer shows, road shows, exhibits and other events where ChamSys products will be promoted.
• Travel to and participate on behalf of the Company at UK and some EU based trade shows, road shows, exhibits and other locations where ChamSys and/or competitor products are promoted to keep apprised of competitor products and build and enhance relationships with sales representatives, customers, lighting designers, specifiers and other market participants.

Essential Skills:

• Excellent communication, technical & problem-solving skills.
• Must have a good understanding of the entertainment lighting and lighting control market, including concert/touring, theatre, broadcast, house of worship, corporate, etc.
• Strong written and oral communication and presentation skills, including on camera.
• Ability to lead and work collaboratively in a high pressure, deadline driven environment.
• Microsoft office/ teams
• UK Driving license

Desirable Experience:

• Good working knowledge of ChamSys products, MagicQ and QuickQ software and entertainment lighting and programming.
• Experience in training internal and external customers on ChamSys products.

Want to know more about the role? Drop our Product & Support Manager an e-mail at jobs@chamsys.co.uk.

Software Engineer (Mobile Apps Development)

We are seeking a Mobile Software Engineer to join our ambitious and growing team and help us build software for a range of mobile platforms including iOS and Android. We have a small but growing R&D team based in Southampton and our engineers are involved in the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. 

Main Responsibilities: 

• Build and maintain our current range of mobile apps on iOS and Android. 
• Develop new iOS and Android applications for our product range. 
• Share knowledge and learning with other members of the software team. 

Essential Skills: 

• At least 2 years professional experience in mobile app development. 
• Excellent communication, technical & problem-solving skills. 
• Knowledge of iOS and Android development. 
• Experience in cross-platform development using C++ and QML in Qt. 
• Experience of Apple and Android app store deployment. 

Desirable Experience: 

• Using tools such as Git and GitLab. 
• Developed apps which are live on the app store. 
• JavaScript/HTML5 development experience. 
• Developing on Linux, macOS, Windows. 
• Agile/Scrum development process experience. 
• Working with stage lighting and lighting control products. 

Want to know more about the role? Drop our Software Engineering Team Manager an e-mail [jobs@chamsys.co.uk], you will be reporting to him, and he will be able to answer any questions about the role. 

Software Engineer

We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our ambitious and growing team and help us build software for a range of hardware platforms. We have a small but growing R&D team based in Southampton and our engineers are involved in the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. 

Main Responsibilities: 

• Design, develop and support solutions for our bespoke products. 
• Design and develop our applications user interface. 
• Create high and low-level software design using recognised methodologies. 
• Ensure software can be built on our continuous build system. 
• Produce documentation including requirements, change notes and user manuals. 
• Prepare and implement suitable test strategies. 
• Assist the support team with troubleshooting technical issues, developing and implementing corrective actions as needed. 
• Share knowledge and learning with other members of the software team. 

Essential Skills: 

• At least 3 years professional experience in Software Engineering. 
• Experience developing in C/C++. 
• Excellent communication, technical & problem-solving skills. 

Desirable Experience: 

• Knowledge or experience of developing in Qt. 
• Experience of networking, USB and implementing communication protocols. 
• Using source control and CI systems such as GitLab, Git or Atlassian tools. 
• Agile/Scrum development process experience. 
• Working with stage lighting and lighting control products. 

Want to know more about the role? Drop our Software Engineering Team Manager an e-mail [jobs@chamsys.co.uk], you will be reporting to him, and he will be able to answer any questions about the role.