Embedded Firmware Engineer, Avionics
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 13, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 12, 2026. Furientis scores A on the Alion truth index.
About the Team
The Avionics Team owns the electronics on the vehicle: flight computer, compute boards, power conversion, sensor interfaces, wiring, and the embedded firmware that ties them together. The same engineers design the boards, write the firmware, and bring them up at the bench. No handoff layer between hardware and software.
Avionics sits on the critical path for every flight test, so the team's velocity sets the program's pace.
About the Role
We’re looking for an embedded firmware engineer who enjoys working close to hardware and delivering reliable, low-latency systems in demanding environments. You’ll develop firmware, drivers, and test tools for vehicle avionics and edge-compute platforms, then bring them up alongside electrical and systems engineers. You’ll help connect sensors and actuators to onboard compute, diagnose issues at the bench, and make the full system dependable under real operating constraints.
What You'll Do
Develop low-level firmware, drivers, and board-support software for flight computers, GPU SoMs, sensors, and vehicle peripherals.
Build and debug data paths from sensor capture through DMA and shared memory to onboard processing; work with CUDA and TensorRTpipelines on GPU-based platforms where needed.
Implement hardware configuration, diagnostics, telemetry, and automated bench tests using Rust and Python.
Integrate actuator and motor-control electronics with embedded software, including current and position feedback, commutation interfaces, and bench tuning with controlsengineers.
Diagnose timing, jitter, interrupt, DMA, power, and signal-integrity issues using logs and laboratory instruments; trace failures across firmware and hardware.
Collaborate with electrical, controls, mechanical, and systems engineers on board bring-up, interface requirements, verification, and flight readiness.
Skills We're Hiring For
B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
5+ years of embedded firmware or systems-softwareexperience, ideally on products that integrate closely with custom electronics.
Strong C/C++ or Rust skills and experience with Python for automation, diagnostics, or test tooling.
Experience with embedded Linux, device trees, drivers, sensor configuration, interrupts, DMA, and real-time or latency-sensitive behavior.
Practical debugging skills with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and hardware test setups; able to work through issues that cross software and electrical boundaries.
Familiarity with GPU SoMssuch as NVIDIA Jetson/Orin or similar platforms; CUDA, TensorRT, and zero-copy data handling are valuable.
Clear communication and collaborative habits in a fast-moving, multidisciplinary engineering team.
Bonus Points For
Experience with aerospace, robotics, electric vehicles, flight hardware, or other high-reliability systems.
Familiarity with power electronics, BLDC/PMSM motor drives, actuator systems, EMI/EMC, or environmental qualification.
Experience taking embedded systems from prototypethrough production and building repeatable test infrastructure.
Daily use of agentic coding tools such as Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, or similar.