Staff Engineer Embedded Firmware

You will develop C and C++ firmware for aircraft, maintain and modernize embedded software, integrate RTOS platforms, and build automated testing pipelines. You will design software architectures and interfaces, perform reviews, integrate cross-functional software, and support production, testing, release, and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Develop C and C++ code for V-BAT aircraft
• Refine firmware for new hardware, features, and capabilities
• Integrate an RTOS onto custom System-On-a-Module hardware
• Develop firmware for robotic vehicles in flight
• Convert bare-metal software to an RTOS-based system
• Create CI/CD pipelines with automated embedded-system testing
• Participate in architecture, design, and code reviews
• Integrate firmware, test and verification software, autonomy software, and ground control stations
• Develop interfaces for avionics sensors, subsystems, and payloads
• Facilitate software architecture updates
• Support systems engineering processes
• Report status, risks, accomplishments, and expectations to senior leadership
• Support in-house UAV manufacturing
• Design test systems using virtualized hardware and hardware-in-the-loop simulations
• Develop tools for deployment, testing, and data analysis
• Create prototypes to validate design concepts and technical limitations

Requirements

• Software development experience in C and C++
• Experience with bare-metal firmware development for embedded systems
• Experience with Linux Kernel or RTOS development, device trees, and hardware bring-up
• Familiarity with thread-safe multithreaded programming
• Experience owning development processes and features
• Track record of shipping products through development cycles
• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a STEM discipline

Benefits

• Bonus
• Benefits
• Equity