Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Overview

In this embedded software role, you design and implement software for CesiumAstro’s aerospace devices, spanning from low-level drivers to end-user applications. You will work on Linux-based SBCs and high-reliability microcontrollers, shaping products from concept to production and in-orbit support. You’ll collaborate with hardware teams and participate in proposals and design reviews, communicating across the organization. This position offers hands-on, autonomous work in a dynamic cross-functional environment with a clear impact on rapid integration of our products into customers’ systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement software for embedded devices from requirements to deployment
• Develop, code, test, debug, and document system software
• Review code and system designs
• Analyze code for efficiency, stability, and scalability
• Integrate and validate new product designs
• Support software quality assurance and optimize IO performance
• Provide post-production/in-orbit customer support
• Interface with hardware design and development engineers
• Assess third‑party and open‑source software

Key requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering
• 4+ years in software development
• Hands-on development and troubleshooting of embedded hardware
• API design for interfacing with FPGAs
• Experience with aerospace products
• C or C++ programming
• Embedded systems design with real-time preemptive multitasking OS (RT Linux desirable)
• Familiarity with software configuration management and defect tracking
• Excellent knowledge of real-time coding techniques, IP protocols, and hardware subsystems
• Strong multi-threaded programming and resource management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication

• collaborative
• forward-thinking
• strong communication
• C/C++ programming
• embedded systems
• RTOS / real-time Linux

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