Embedded Controls Software Engineer
📌Black Mountain, United States 🇺🇸
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ mid-level
Kearfott has a very long history of innovation and excellence and is the go-to brand for many of our global clients. Kearfott is trusted, respected and plays a vital role in the success of America’s aerospace and defense industries. With over a century of expertise & experience, Kearfott is dedicated to providing quality, reliability, and cutting-edge technology to customers worldwide to meet their sea, land, air, and space navigation and guidance requirements.
Kearfott offers a comprehensive benefits package including a 401K, and Tuition Reimbursement. We offer a 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off.
We are looking for talented individuals who want to be part of a world-class work force. Join Kearfott and become part of a company that is recognized for technical expertise and respected world-wide as a ‘full service’ provider.
For more information, visit our website at www.kearfott.com
Embedded Controls Software Engineer, (Black Mountain, NC)
This Position Is Responsible For The Following
- Supporting and / or leading the design and development of software, software tools, and tests for electromechanical actuation systems used in aircraft, missiles, land-based products, and space-based products.
- Evaluating and / or decomposing customer requirements -- both technical and programmatic -- and evaluating and / or generating lower-level requirements for software / firmware and test stand elements of actuation programs.
- Supporting technical program managers with schedule, task, and cost performance tracking.
- Supporting the development team to ensure design choices meet customer requirements.
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Supporting proposal efforts, prototype development and other New Product Introduction (NPI) activities culminating in the transition of new products into production.
- Supporting software development tools evaluation, testing, and implementation.
- Supporting software development processes implementation and maintenance.
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Acting as a focal point for technical information exchange with and between team members from other disciplines (electrical, mechanical, sensors / motors).
- Travel as required to support market development and customer needs.
- Support proposal efforts.
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Support and advance relationships with our customers and their engineering teams.
- Supports software requirements development and maintenance for aerospace and defense electromechanical actuation systems applications.
- Evaluates, maintains, and potentially creates software requirements developed from end-item and / or systems specifications, and creates / evaluates requirements / test / code traceability using IBM Rational DOORS (Dynamic Object-Oriented Requirements System).
- Supports and may perform coding for embedded applications, PC-based applications, scripts, and development tools.
- Supports and may perform integration of mechanical, electrical, software / firmware, and test project artifacts to ensure the system meets customer requirements.
- Reviews customer / system specifications, assesses compliance of the software to the requirements – working either independently or directly in conjunction with customer representatives.
- Understands FAA, EASA, or military certification requirements, and follows associated design / development processes.
- Understands system safety, reliability, and maintainability aspects of the product.
- Knowledge of performance modeling using MATLAB / Simulink, PLECS or similar tools.
- Supports cost proposal activity for embedded code development (code, tests, documentation, and tools).
- Supports development efforts for customer funded projects as well as IR&D projects.
- Supports product design analysis.
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Supports project management with task tracking and potentially task definition.
- Understanding of embedded programming:
- C coding language.
- Interrupts.
- Operating Systems and task management (timing, prioritization, schemes).
- Requirements development, management, and traceability.
- Verification testing – implementation and concepts.
- Understanding of file version / revision control tools and techniques (Git, Subversion, Synergy, etc.).
- Understanding of the dynamic behavior of electromechanical systems.
- Familiarity with Python, VB.NET, and VC#.NET programming languages.
- Familiarity with regulations, certification standards, design assurance, and systems standards such as DO-178C, DO-254, FAR 25, ARP4754, MIL-STD-882E is a plus.
- Ability to participate and contribute in a cross functional team environment.
- Ability to effectively communicate, in writing and verbally, across functional areas.
- Customer centric attitude.
- Drives for results; action oriented.
- Continuously improves in all aspects.
- Pluses:
- Flight controls understanding or experience.
- DXL scripting for DOORS.
- Hardware / software integration experience.
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Microsoft © Visual Studio experience.
- B S. in Mechatronics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent degree OR equivalent experience -- required.
- Understanding of embedded programming using C coding language.
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Must be a United States citizen.
Kearfott offers a comprehensive benefits package including a 401K, and Tuition Reimbursement. We offer a 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off. Our work environment embraces our people as we enjoy monthly employee events that celebrates our workplace culture.
Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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