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# Embedded Software Engineer

- **Company:** Berla Corporation
- **Location:** Annapolis, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $125,000.0 - $150,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Build Automation, Encodings, Data Structures, Software Debugging, Linux, File Systems, Embedded Operating Systems, Embedded Software, Firmware, SQL Databases, System Software, Scripting, Maintaining Code, U-Boot, Programming Languages
- **Published:** August 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a03e6d48b70045eb

## About the Role

* At least 3 years of experience in embedded software, embedded systems, or embedded security

 * Experience performing binary analysis, including disassembly and decompilation, and reading assembly on embedded-class architectures

 * Familiarity with Linux, QNX and Android based embedded systems and how they store and protect data

 * Hands-on hardware skills, including working with debug interfaces, board-level rework, and signal capture

 * Familiarity with embedded communication buses and the ability to observe and interpret device traffic

 * Proficiency in a scripting or programming language for building parsing and automation tooling

 * Solid understanding of file systems, data encoding, encrypted SQL databases, and cryptographic and secure-boot concepts

 * Strong analytical and data analysis skills, with the ability to interpret, correlate, and validate data and work through undocumented systems

 * Experience maintaining code in a version-controlled repository following established best practices

 * Clear communication skills, comfort working cross-functionally, and the ability to travel locally and internationally as needed

## Description

* Extract and analyze embedded firmware and operating system software from automotive systems to discover key artifacts such as data structures, storage formats, and protection mechanisms

 * Access embedded devices through hardware and debug interfaces to acquire firmware and memory, and recover data from locked, damaged, or protected devices using appropriate techniques

 * Work with embedded operating systems such Linux, QNX and Android

 * Defeat device protections such as secure boot, encryption, obtain ADB and root access to target systems, where required to complete analysis

 * Decrypt and analyze encrypted SQL databases and proprietary storage formats to recover and interpret structured data

 * Analyze recovered data to identify, correlate, and validate artifacts of interest, and document findings for downstream forensic use

 * Develop repeatable, forensically sound extraction and decoding methods and maintain clear documentation of methodologies, target hardware, and attack surfaces

 * Build automation to parse, decode, and validate recovered data at scale

 * Maintain a code repository in accordance with industry's best practices as directed by leadership

 * Collaborate with engineers, analysts, and product managers to prioritize targets and move research into supported product capabilities


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