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Our Electronic Warfare division currently has an exciting opportunity for an Embedded Software Engineer to perform design, development, and hardware/software integration in San Diego, CA.\nLeidos is a DOD leader in electronic design and chiplet manufacture. Our division primarily focuses on research & development and advanced prototyping, transforming state-of-the-art processing algorithms into real-time software systems. Projects involve small multi-disciplinary teams of engineers working together in spiral or agile development environments to meet aggressive customer schedules aimed at near-term field demonstrations. Leidos utilizes its proprietary design methodology for hardware software co-design to manufacture custom SoC and IP for high performance applications.\nIn this role, the Embedded Software Engineer will build high-performance software to meet extreme system requirements. They will be responsible for designing and implementing components to support software development kits that are delivered directly to end users to support quick adoption and ease of use for novel SoC products. This role will require the ability to deeply understand hardware architectures to execute validation and verification testing, a crucial step to ensure hardware and software performance meets customer expectations.\nJoin a team of experts in implementing high-performance signal processing on custom system-on-chip (SoC) hardware and building the tools that enable analysis, rapid prototyping, and deployment of cutting-edge algorithms.\nThe successful candidate will be responsible for:\nContributing to the design and development of advanced embedded systems as a part of multidisciplinary teams. These teams are made up of other software team members and subject matter experts from the areas of systems engineering, hardware, firmware, RF front-end design, and signal processing.\n\nDeveloping software for a variety of microarchitectures, including DSP, ARM, or RISC-V\n\nDeveloping software for multi-core embedded systems ranging from bare metal to minimal real-time operating systems to Linux environments\n\nReading and comprehending datasheets to understand expected hardware operation\n\nBuilding and documenting test plans, test procedures, and software requirements specifications\n\nWriting low level code (e.g. C) to interface with Control Status Registers (CSRs) and hardware components\n\nWriting software to validate hardware performance and operation under nominal and stress conditions\n\nBuilding software using test driven development (TDD) methodologies\n\nDocumenting software performance results against key performance requirements for data-plane and control-plane processing\n\nUnderstanding software use in high-level system design for real time software in operational systems\n\nClearly communicating technical details of software APIs and test results to internal and external engineers\n\nAt Leidos we value passion for learning. If you believe you have what it takes to succeed in this role and are eager to learn, we encourage you to apply.\nThe successful candidate will have the following basic education/experience:\nBachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science, or related discipline\n\n4+ years of software development experience, including strong experience in C/C++ software development for embedded systems\n\nExperience using Integrated Development Environments (e.g. VS Code, Eclipse)\n\nExperience with build tools (e.g. GCC, CMake, or Make)\n\nStrong understanding of hardware-software interaction and basic computer architecture (e.g. Stack, Heap, Pointers)\n\nExperience with version control systems (e.g. Git, Subversion) and continuous integration software tools (e.g. Jenkins)\n\nExperience with software testing tools and methodologies\n\nExperience in creating and maintaining technical documentation for developed software\n\nAbility to communicate and share ideas, concepts, and designs with a team of engineers\n\nUnderstanding of unit test frameworks and test-driven development practices\n\nComfortable working in Linux development environments\n\nDemonstrated ability and motivation to continually learn new technical skills and concepts\n\n** Must have active Secret level security clearance with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI **\nBonus education/experience:\nMaster’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent\n\nActive security clearance higher than the Secret level\n\nExperience with other programming languages such as Python, MATLAB, or another OOP language\n\nAbility to debug embedded systems using tools like oscilloscopes and logic analyzers\n\nExperience developing drivers for hardware interfaces (e.g. GPIO, I2C, SPI, UART, PCIe)\n\nExperience with multiple embedded instruction set architectures (e.g. ESP32, Raspberry PI, Arduino, RISCV)\n\nExperience using hardware debugging software and tools such as OpenOCD, J-Link, or SEGGER\n\nNKE\nElectronicWarfare\nIf you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.\nOriginal Posting:\nSeptember 1, 2026For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.\nPay Range:\nPay Range $87,100.00 - $157,450.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. 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