{"id":1402164,"url":"https://alion.io/job/covenant-senior-embedded-software-engineer","title":"Senior Embedded Software Engineer","company":{"id":3789852,"name":"Covenant","domain":"covenantindustries.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/covenantindustries","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Comeet","truth_index":null},"role":"Hardware","role_family":"Hardware","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Grand Prairie, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":107000,"max_usd":201000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":910},"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"C++","optional":false},{"name":"Computer Vision","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Sensor Fusion","optional":false},{"name":"ArduPilot","optional":true},{"name":"MAVLink","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-09T15:44:06Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-09","last_verified_at":"2026-09-29T16:01:44Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":20,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":20},"description":"Description\nTitle: Embedded Software Engineer\nLocation: Grand Prairie, Texas\nCOMPANY OVERVIEW\nCovenant is a global defense company headquartered in Washington, D.C., building long-range precision strike weapons for the United States and its allies. Its flagship munition, Anthem, combines heavy payload and long range at a fraction of the cost of comparable legacy systems, with production volumes designed to meet the demands of prolonged conflict. Designed as an end-to-end weapon system that is simple to store, transport, and field, Anthem is produced in the United States, Germany, and Israel. For more information, visit covenant.com\nTHE ROLE\nWe are seeking a high-energy, execution-focused Sr Embedded Software Engineer to bridge the gap between embedded software execution and live operational theater deployment. This role is built for a highly motivated generalist engineer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is excited to move from modifying core flight firmware to deploying hardware straight out into the field.\nYou will own the physical integration, software configuration, and range-readiness of the flight controllers and edge-compute architectures powering our tactical vehicle portfolios. This position requires significant travel to support high-visibility military modernization events, live-fire range evaluations, and remote theater exercises, requiring an operator who is eager to see their code fly in real-world conditions.\nWHAT YOU’LL DO\nCustom Autopilot Firmware Modification: Edit, optimize, and maintain native Pixhawk open-source firmware architectures written in C and C++ to inject custom flight behaviors and subsystem overrides.\n Sensor Fusion & State Estimation: Maintain, deploy, and refine proprietary, custom-built Kalman Filters (KF/EKF) to optimize vehicle localization, guidance, and navigation loops outside of native autopilot defaults.\nEdge Compute Optimization: Deploy, optimize, and benchmark real-time computer vision, guidance, and navigation algorithms onto NVIDIA Jetson edge-compute platforms.\n Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) Testing: Build out, program, and manage high-fidelity HWIL testing setups to simulate tactical munition flights, test system communications, and validate autonomous seeker behaviors before range delivery.\n GNSS-Denied & RF Integration: Integrate specialized, complex payload hardware including CRPA antenna arrays and S-band software-defined radios (SDRs) to maintain swarm coordination in heavily contested electronic warfare environments.\n High-Velocity Field Operations: Drive the physical deployment of communication networks, ground stations, and tracking assets during live-fire contract milestones (CLINs 0001-0005), including Project Convergence and international operational exercises.\nGovernment Customer Interface: Author and brief technical data products, security boundary plans, and software simulation reviews to senior program leadership, military stakeholder agencies, and government laboratories.\nREQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS\nExperience: ~7+ years of aggressive, hands-on experience spanning embedded flight software development, systems integration, or flight testing within a tactical defense program; includes low-level firmware extraction/reprogramming or hardware-software bridge analysis directly from physical microelectronics or tactical flight hardware platforms.\nCore Technical Palette: Absolute mastery of C/C++ programming, computer architecture fundamentals, and script automation via Python.\nHardware-Software Integration: Proven competence configuring flight computers, parsing embedded device drivers, and setting up HWIL simulation environments.\nCommunication & Protocols: Strong working familiarity with low-level embedded communication protocols (UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, Ethernet, UDP/TCP).\nActive U.S. Secret security clearance\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\nAutopilot & Compute Familiarity: Direct technical familiarity with Pixhawk autopilot environments (PX4/ArduPilot), MAVLink protocols, and NVIDIA Jetson architectures.\nFPGA & Digital Logic Competency: Understanding of ASIC/FPGA design constraints, digital logic simulation, and interfacing processors with FPGAs for CRPA swap-overs or S-band mesh network capability integrations.\nContested Navigation: Direct experience with advanced GNSS-denied navigation protocols, anti-jamming subsystems, and signal processing layout optimization.\nB.S. or advanced coursework in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Aerospace Engineering.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4503,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-28T16:09:34Z"}],"liveness":{"score":50,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.663,"p_room":0.75,"age_days":19,"expected_fill_days":23,"reasons":["conf:1","win:late"],"computed_at":"2026-09-29T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/covenant-senior-embedded-software-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/covenant-senior-embedded-software-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-29T16:19:00Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"assistant","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1079,"day_limit":2000,"remaining_today":921,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-30T00:00:00Z"}}}