# Senior Embedded Software Engineer

About Northwood: Northwood is a modern space infrastructure company bringing the benefits of space to the masses through advanced communications technology. We are building a global network of phased array and parabolic ground stations that enable real-time, reliable communication for satellite missions such as national security, global connectivity, and disaster response. With a vertically integrated approach, Northwood designs, builds, and rapidly deploys scalable systems that power the next generation of space missions. If you like solving complex challenges and seeing your work deployed around the world with real impact, Northwood is the place to do it. About Northwood: Northwood is on a mission to transform connectivity between earth and space and bring the benefits of space to the masses through innovations in space communications technologies. If you like building quickly and seeing your work deployed in locations around the globe with real impact, we want you at Northwood. Role: Come architect the embedded systems of our next-generation ground stations! You would have the opportunity to build a system from the ground up and work in a fast-paced team of hardware and firmware

- **Id**: 4027791
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/northwood-space-senior-embedded-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Los Angeles, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T17:07:30Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T17:32:56Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3971
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Satellite Communications, Ground Systems

## Company

- **Id**: 6433
- **Name**: Northwood Space
- **Domain**: northwoodspace.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/northwoodspace>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 5
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.6
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 55
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 160000
- **Max**: 190000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 190000

## Technologies

- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **PetaLinux** — Optional: no
- **FreeRTOS** — Optional: yes
- **RTOS** — Optional: yes
- **Rust** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T17:32:56Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 55
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T19:40:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 190000
- **Is top pay**: no

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