Embedded Software Designer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 8, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 17, 2026.
Join our team as an Embedded Software Engineer, where you'll be responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of high-quality embedded software for both spacecraft and ground-based systems. You'll have a direct impact on design and operation, and will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams. This position offers unlimited vacation, comprehensive health coverage, stock options, and flexible work options.
Missions
- Design, develop, and maintain reliable, high-quality embedded software for spacecraft and ground-based systems.
- Implement secure communications capabilities, including encryption, authentication, and key exchange for next-generation data links.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define system requirements, debug complex issues, and evolve system architecture.
Profil recherché
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including system design, debugging, testing, performance analysis, and maintainable code development- Proficiency with modern software development workflows and tools, including Git-based version control and code review practices
- Experience developing software for embedded Linux and/or RTOS environments, including familiarity with build systems such as Yocto/OpenEmbedded and operating systems such as FreeRTOS
- 4+ years of experience developing embedded software for complex, high-reliability systems
- Experience developing low-level embedded Linux components including kernel modules, device drivers, and device tree integrations
- Proficiency in C/C++ for embedded systems, including concurrency, interrupt handling, memory-mapped peripherals, and hardware communication interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, and CAN
- Experience developing and maintaining automated test frameworks, validation tooling, or hardware/software integration test environments
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across software, hardware, and operations teams
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
- Experience developing software for aerospace applications
- Experience implementing embedded security solutions such as secure boot, hardware security modules (HSMs), certificate/key management, authentication, or encrypted communications
- Familiarity with Linux networking concepts and infrastructure, including routing, interfaces, netlink, or packet-processing pipelines
- Experience developing multi-stage bootloaders
- Strong knowledge of computer networking and modern networking protocols
- Experience with RTL (Verilog and/or VHDL) and embedded SoCs