Embedded Software Designer

• Design, develop, and maintain reliable, high-quality embedded software for both spacecraft and ground-based systems supporting a growing fleet of satellites

• Design and implement secure communications capabilities, including encryption, authentication, and key exchange for next-generation data links

• Build and maintain low-level software components including device drivers, kernel modules, hardware interfaces, and platform services

• Develop automated tests, validation tools, and technical documentation to support robust software delivery and long-term maintainability

• Participate in software architecture discussions, design reviews, and code reviews to ensure software quality and system reliability

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define system requirements, debug complex issues, and evolve system architecture

• Identify performance gaps, reliability risks, and architectural shortcomings in existing systems, and drive improvements across the software stack

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• 4+ years of experience developing embedded software for complex, high-reliability systems

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including system design, debugging, testing, performance analysis, and maintainable code development

• Proficiency in C/C++ for embedded systems, including concurrency, interrupt handling, memory-mapped peripherals, and hardware communication interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, and CAN

• Experience developing software for embedded Linux and/or RTOS environments, including familiarity with build systems such as Yocto/OpenEmbedded and operating systems such as FreeRTOS

• Experience developing low-level embedded Linux components including kernel modules, device drivers, and device tree integrations

• Experience developing and maintaining automated test frameworks, validation tooling, or hardware/software integration test environments

• Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across software, hardware, and operations teams

• Proficiency with modern software development workflows and tools, including Git-based version control and code review practices

Bonus Points:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

• Experience developing software for aerospace applications

• Experience implementing embedded security solutions such as secure boot, hardware security modules (HSMs), certificate/key management, authentication, or encrypted communications

• Familiarity with Linux networking concepts and infrastructure, including routing, interfaces, netlink, or packet-processing pipelines

• Experience developing multi-stage bootloaders

• Strong knowledge of computer networking and modern networking protocols

• Experience with RTL (Verilog and/or VHDL) and embedded SoCs

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