Embedded Software Engineer
📌Burlingame, CA, United States 🇺🇸
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ mid-level
💰 140000
We’re seeking an Embedded Software Engineer to help drive the core functionality of our satellite systems. In this role, you’ll contribute directly to mission-critical software that supports everything from real-time fault detection to on-orbit system updates. You'll work hands-on with our custom Linux OS, integrate tightly with programmable logic, and play a key role in shaping our CI/CD infrastructure for flight software deployment.
What You’ll Do
- Develop and maintain a custom Linux-based OS for spaceflight and development systems using PetaLinux and Yocto
- Integrate software with programmable logic (PL), including configuration and health monitoring interfaces
- Design and test infrastructure for secure, failsafe in-orbit image updates for both PS (Processing System) and PL
- Contribute to the automation of CI/CD pipelines to improve software reliability and deployment efficiency
- Debug and optimize low-level firmware and embedded system behavior
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Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless hardware-software interaction across satellite systems
- Maintain and enhance a custom Linux OS for both flight and development using PetaLinux and Yocto
- Implement and test programmable logic (PL) configuration software
- Develop fault detection interfaces and software for system redundancy
- Build infrastructure for on-orbit PS+PL image updates and failsafe recovery
- Support and improve CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment of complete PS+PL software stacks
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Work across hardware and software boundaries to enable resilient, autonomous spacecraft functionality
- 3-5 years of experience in embedded software development.
- Fluency in C/C++ programming.
- Experience with custom embedded OS development and deployment using PetaLinux.
- Proficiency in low-level firmware development and debugging.
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Strong documentation discipline.
- Experience with real-time operating systems.
- Software development background in DSP/communications applications.
- Knowledge of CI/CD DevOps practices.
- Prior experience with space flight software.
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Hands-on lab experience with testing engineering models and flight units.
Range for base salary: $140,000 -$190,000
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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