Embedded Flight Software Engineer

• Write bare-metal and FreeRTOS based firmware in C/C++ for the wide range of boards across the aircraft, from the main flight computer to power, motor, sensing, and payload electronics.
• Integrate the flight controller with the aircraft’s sensors, actuators, power electronics, and sub-systems, and feed the outputs of our mission-management and autonomy system into the flight controller.
• Develop and maintain the embedded-Linux systems layer on the onboard companion computer, including drivers, board bring-up, and OS-level services.
• Capture flight data on the vehicle at the firmware level and drive the onboard datalink that gets telemetry off the aircraft.
• Bring up new avionics hardware and debug it at the bench using a logic analyser, oscilloscope, and JTAG.
• Support flight-test campaigns hands-on in the field, keeping onboard software running throughout operations.

• A degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or equivalent practical experience, and 3+ years building embedded firmware in C/C++, including bare-metal development.
• Prior experience with uncrewed aircraft and autopilot/flight-controller software.
• Experience delivering firmware for aerospace, avionics, or other safety-and-reliability-critical systems.
• Hands-on integration of microcontrollers with sensors, actuators, and power electronics over low-level interfaces (CAN, SPI, I2C, UART), including hardware bring-up and bench debugging with a logic analyser, oscilloscope, and JTAG.
• Embedded Linux systems programming on single-board computers, and comfort with Docker and containerised services.
• Proficiency in Python for tooling and test automation.

Preferred (but not required) skills

• Familiarity with CAN FD and other deterministic vehicle networking.
• Experience with onboard telemetry and radio/datalink firmware.
• Experience with STM32 and FreeRTOS.
• Experience supporting field operations and flight or vehicle testing.