The RoleWe are seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to develop and enhance low-level embedded software across the satellite platform. As a Senior Embedded Software Engineer, you'll work closely with custom hardware to develop low-level software that brings our spacecraft to life. From initial hardware bring-up through fully integrated, flight-ready systems.
You'll build embedded software that interfaces directly with sensors, actuators, and critical spacecraft subsystems, including propulsion, attitude control, and power. Your work will primarily be written in Rust and deployed on microcontrollers across our platform, requiring strong fundamentals in real-time systems, resource-constrained environments, and fault-tolerant design.
Responsibilities - Create embedded software architecture for real-time, fault tolerant control of a 20kW+ spacecraft.
- Develop embedded software for new hardware integrated throughout the satellite.
- Extend embedded software applications for managing hardware on some of the largest satellites that have ever flown.
- Scale embedded software across different satellite products by building software infrastructure and development processes.
- Debug complex HW/FW issues using traditional debug tools (JTAG/SWD, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes), and custom debug hooks both on the ground and in orbiting satellites.
- Mentor a diverse team of software engineers and instill embedded software best practices.
Qualifications - 5+ years of experience developing embedded software in either Rust, C, or C++, targeting microcontrollers (ARM, RISC-V, or similar).
- Strong understanding of your favorite microcontroller's memory subsystem, instruction pipeline, interrupt and DMA controller.
- Experience collaborating with hardware engineering teams.
- Demonstrated ability to debug complex hardware/firmware issues.
Nice to haves - Experience using Rust in hard real-time systems, either bare-metal or RTOS environments.
- Experience developing peripheral drivers without use of the vendor's software.
- Experience with spacecraft flight software development.
- Experience maintaining embedded software across multiple product revisions.
- Experience with software verification and testing methods.
- Experience with software and network performance analysis and debugging.
- Experience with fault tolerant software design and implementation.
- Experience defining, creating, and maintaining test systems for both hardware-in-the-loop and hardware-out-of-the-loop.
Compensation and Benefits: - Base salary range for this role is $160,000 - $220,000 + equity in the company
- Salary will be based on several factors including, but not limited to knowledge and skills, education, and experience level
- Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical/dental/vision/ coverage, life insurance, paid parental leave, and many other perks
If you don't meet 100% of the preferred skills and experience, we encourage you to still apply! Building a spacecraft unlike any other requires a team unlike any other and non-traditional career twists and turns are encouraged!
