Embedded Software Engineer

SAIC is looking for an Embedded Software Engineer to design, develop, and optimize software that runs directly on hardware devices. This role involves working close to the hardware - interfacing with microcontrollers, processors, and real-time operating systems to build reliable, deterministic, and high-performance embedded solutions. You’ll collaborate with hardware engineers, firmware developers, and system architects to deliver products from concept through production. This role is onsite in Huntsville, AL.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain embedded software for microcontroller- and processor-based systems
• Develop real-time applications using VxWorks RTOS, ensuring deterministic behavior and system reliability
• Write efficient, maintainable, and well-documented code in C/C++
• Interface with hardware components such as sensors, actuators, and communication modules (UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, etc.)
• Develop and debug low-level drivers, BSPs (Board Support Packages), and middleware in VxWorks environments
• Configure and optimize VxWorks kernel components, tasks, scheduling, and memory management
• Perform system bring-up, debugging, and performance tuning on embedded targets
• Participate in system architecture and real-time system design decisions
• Conduct code reviews, unit testing, and integration testing
• Troubleshoot hardware/software integration issues, including timing and concurrency problems

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.