Embedded Software Engineer

Posted: 2026-10-12

- Software engineer with 5+ years’ experience developing embedded systems for flight-related systems.

- Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related engineering discipline. Advanced degree a plus. Equivalent professional experience may be considered.

Embedded Software Fundamentals

- Strong proficiency in C and/or C++ for resource-constrained embedded systems.

- Experience developing software for microcontrollers, SoCs, or embedded CPUs.

- Strong understanding of embedded concepts:

- Interrupts and interrupt handling

- DMA peripherals

- Memory-mapped I/O

- Timers and watchdogs

- Serial communication interfaces

- Concurrency and synchronization

- Memory management and resource constraints

- Ability to read schematics, datasheets, reference manuals, and hardware specifications and translate them into software requirements.

Real-time Systems

- Experience developing real-time embedded software with deterministic timing requirements

- Familiarity with RTOS concepts, such as scheduling, priorities, synchronization, inter-task communication, and timing analysis.

- Understanding of latency, jitter, deadline misses, and failure modes in real-time systems.

- Experience reasoning about system behavior when multiple asynchronous events occur simultaneously.

Safety/Reliability-Critical Aerospace Software

- Experience developing software where correctness, reliability, and fault handling are critical.

- Experience with:

- Fault detection and handling

- Redundancy or graceful degradation

- Watchdogs and health monitoring