Full Job Description
We9re on the hunt for a top-tier Embedded Software Engineer. Your focus will be on software development and maintenance required for both space and ground-based assets for a growing fleet of spacecraft. You9ll be relied upon for input and decisions that will directly impact design and operation.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- Design, develop, and maintain reliable, high-quality embedded software for both spacecraft and ground-based systems supporting a growing fleet of satellites
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- Linux networking infrastructure, including routing, control-plane, and dataplane integration
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- Developing software for FPGA-based platforms, including bring-up, driver integration, and optimization of memory-mapped interfaces between processing cores and custom IP.
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- Develop automated tests, validation tools, and technical documentation to support robust software delivery and long-term maintainability
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- Participate in software architecture discussions, design reviews, and code reviews to ensure software quality and system reliability
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- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define system requirements, debug complex issues, and evolve system architecture
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- Identify performance gaps, reliability risks, and architectural shortcomings in existing systems, and drive improvements across the software stack
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- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior engineers while contributing to engineering best practices and development standards
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**Required Skills & Qualifications:**
- 5+ years of embedded software development experience
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- Bachelor9s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience
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- Strong proficiency in C and modern C++
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- Experience developing software for embedded Linux environments
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- Experience working close to operating system internals, including concurrency, IPC, synchronization, memory management, and hardware/software interfaces
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- Experience integrating and debugging complex software systems across multiple abstraction layers
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- Experience with embedded build systems and toolchains such as Yocto/OpenEmbedded, Buildroot, CMake, or similar
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- Ability to debug and optimize software in resource-constrained or performance-sensitive environments
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- Strong communication and collaboration skills in cross-functional engineering environments
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- Ability to work effectively across distributed teams and time zones
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**Bonus Points:**
- Master9s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
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- Experience developing software for aerospace applications
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- Experience implementing embedded security solutions such as secure boot, hardware security modules (HSMs), certificate/key management, authentication, or encrypted communications
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- Familiarity with Linux networking concepts and infrastructure, including routing, interfaces, netlink, or packet-processing pipelines
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- Experience developing multi-stage bootloaders
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- Strong knowledge of computer networking and modern networking protocols
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- Experience with RTL (Verilog and/or VHDL) and embedded SoCs
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