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# Embedded Engineer

- **Company:** GCS Recruitment Specialists Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Abstraction Layers, Artificial Intelligence, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Code Review, Linux, Middleware, Firmware, High-Level Architecture, Python (Programming Language), Network Troubleshooting, Networking Basics, Routing, Network Administration, Software Engineering, Virtual Local Area Networks, Cloud Platform System, Openwrt, Kubernetes, DO-178B, U-Boot, Docker
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25197_7896c392fea1467b17be525ca502ff6c

## About the Role

Required:

 * 6+ years of professional software development experience, with several years leading design or architecture of production systems.

 * Strong Linux-based software development on real devices - C/C++ and/or Python.

 * Solid networking fundamentals: VLANs, routing, QoS / traffic prioritization, and network troubleshooting.

 * Experience with device-to-cloud systems: telemetry, health monitoring, or fleet/device management.

 * Experience building or operating software update pipelines (OTA/firmware: signing, staged rollout, rollback).

 * Containers (Docker; Kubernetes a plus) and modern CI/testing practices.

 * Comfort with ambiguity and autonomy - an early-stage program where strong engineering judgment and clear documentation matter as much as implementation skill.

Nice to have:

 * Background in in-flight connectivity, satellite communications, avionics, or other safety-adjacent embedded domains.

 * Familiarity with DO-178C software lifecycle (certification itself not required) or avionics interfaces such as ARINC 429.

 * Security engineering exposure: cryptography, secure boot, threat modeling, identity and access controls.

 * Experience with carrier-grade CPE/gateway software (e.g., RDK, OpenWrt, prpl) - this maps directly to the work.

## Description

This is a hands-on senior engineering role at the platform/middleware layer. The high-level architecture is in place - your job is to build, integrate, and ship against it. You will work in a team that blends avionics, enterprise networking, cloud, and embedded backgrounds, with a dedicated security engineering team supporting the platform. Modern AI-assisted development tooling is used extensively.

What you'll do:

 * Design and implement core platform modules - cabin network management (VLAN-based traffic segmentation and prioritization across passenger, crew, and airline operational services), connectivity monitoring, and observability.

 * Build and maintain the over-the-air (OTA) software lifecycle pipeline: cryptographically validated updates, staged activation, automatic rollback, and version reporting to ground-side fleet systems.

 * Develop telemetry and health-monitoring infrastructure, including the device-to-cloud data pipeline for fleet monitoring.

 * Integrate software across multiple cabin hardware platforms, maintaining hardware abstraction layers for portability.

 * Build and execute unit, integration, requirements-based, and hardware-in-the-loop tests.

 * Contribute to interface definitions and architecture decision records, and raise the bar through code reviews and design feedback.