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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Embedded & Flight Software Engineer - **Company:** Star, Inc. - **Location:** Jacksonville, FL, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Board Bringup, ARM Architecture, Build Automation, Automation of Tests, Booting (BIOS), C++ (Programming Language), Static Program Analysis, Software Quality, Code Review, Communications Protocols, Computer Engineering, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Device Drivers, Memory Management, Linux on Embedded Systems, Middleware, Embedded Software, Ethernet, Firmware, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), FreeRTOS, Hardware Design, Hardware-In-The-Loop Simulation, Joint Test Action (IEEE Standards), Python (Programming Language), MISRA C (C Programming Language), Real-Time Operating Systems, Software Tools, Reduced Instruction Set Computing, Software Engineering, Software Requirements Analysis, Subsystems, System on a Chip, Systems Integration, Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter, VxWorks, Real Time Systems, Concurrency, Git, Information Technology, Bare Metal, DO-178B, Software Coding, Docker - **Published:** October 8, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/76b68a43-91d6-488e-9cdd-dbec4c547558/senior-embedded-flight-software-engineer ## About the Role * Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline. * Experience: 7+ years of professional experience developing embedded software for hardware-centric, real-time systems, with a proven track record of delivering complex projects from architecture through deployment. * Technical Expertise: + Expert proficiency in C and C++ for embedded systems, with a solid understanding of memory management, concurrency, interrupt handling, and real-time scheduling. + Experience developing software on ARM Cortex-M, ARM Cortex-A, RISC-V, or similar embedded processor architectures using Real-Time Operating Systems (e.g., RTEMS, FreeRTOS, VxWorks, Zephyr) or bare-metal environments. + Strong understanding of standard embedded communication protocols and serial interfaces. + Familiarity with backplane-based embedded architectures (e.g., SpaceVPX, VPX, CompactPCI Serial) and integrating compute modules within a multi-board chassis system. + Comfortable with hardware-software integration, using tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG debuggers, and protocol analyzers to diagnose complex interactions. + Experience using Git and collaborative software development workflows. * Mindset: Enjoys operating in a fast-paced, early-stage environment and solving ambiguous engineering challenges with an analytical approach. Willing to own systems from initial concept through flight operations., * Space Flight Software: Experience developing software that has flown in space, or familiarity with radiation-mitigation strategies in software (e.g., memory scrubbing, checkpointing, ECC memory, redundancy schemes, watchdog timers). * Embedded Linux: Experience developing software on Embedded Linux platforms is a plus. * FPGA/SoC Interfacing: Experience collaborating with FPGA engineers or developing software for heterogeneous FPGA/SoC or system-on-chip architectures. * High-Rel Coding Standards & Frameworks: Familiarity with safety-critical, mission-assurance software development standards, or common flight architectures (e.g., NASA cFE/cFS, MISRA C/C++, DO-178C, or NASA NPR 7150.2). * Modern DevOps & Tooling: Experience with continuous integration, automated test infrastructure, and containerized development environments (e.g., Docker). * Ground Systems Experience: Familiarity with ground support equipment, mission operations tooling, or telemetry/command software. * Advanced Degrees: Master's degree or Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field. ## Description * Flight & Embedded Software: Design, implement, and validate real-time embedded software for spacecraft payload and subsystem control. Develop firmware, device drivers, and middleware running on bare-metal and Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS), with an emphasis on determinism and maintainability. * Bus & Systems Management: Develop software supporting spacecraft bus management, including command and telemetry processing, subsystem coordination, and onboard autonomy. Implement robust interfaces using communication protocols such as SPI, I²C, UART, CAN, Ethernet, RS-422, and, where applicable, SpaceWire and CCSDS standards. * Hardware Integration & FDIR: Collaborate closely with electrical and hardware teams to support board bring-up, bootloader development, backplane and compute-module integration (e.g., SpaceVPX/VPX), and peripheral integration. Implement robust Fault Detection, Isolation, and Recovery (FDIR) strategies, watchdog mechanisms, redundancy management, and health monitoring. * Requirements & Verification: Participate in software requirements development, verification, validation, and design reviews to ensure complete traceability from requirements through flight qualification. * Ground Support & Automation: Design and maintain software tools supporting hardware bring-up, automated testing, mission operations, and telemetry visualization. Develop automation tools using Python, C++, or similar languages to improve engineering productivity and test repeatability. * Testing & Verification: Develop automated unit, integration, and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) test suites. Perform fault-injection testing and simulation to verify software robustness under off-nominal conditions, and participate in environmental test campaigns (e.g., thermal-vacuum, vibration, EMI/EMC). * Architecture & Code Quality: Design scalable, maintainable software architectures. Utilize modern software engineering practices, including CI/CD pipelines, static analysis tools, automated builds, and structured code reviews to ensure mission assurance throughout the spacecraft lifecycle. * Mentorship: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers while helping establish software development standards, engineering processes, and institutional knowledge across the company.