Firmware Engineer
📌Merritt Island, United States 🇺🇸
⏱︎ contract
🧙♂️ mid-level
💰 60
on-site
Job Description
We are seeking a talented Microcontroller Firmware Engineer to join our team in developing a ruggedized VPX-based embedded computing platform. This platform is designed to support both satellite missions and terrestrial applications, forming the foundation for a new product line. The role entails close collaboration with a multidisciplinary team to bring up hardware, develop firmware, and support system integration in space-grade and mission-critical environments.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement firmware for ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers.
- Develop bare-metal device drivers and bootloaders.
- Integrate low-level communication protocols such as I2C, SPI, and UART.
- Work within RTOS environments for real-time control and task scheduling.
- Collaborate with electrical engineers and FPGA developers to validate and integrate new hardware.
- Support board-level debugging and test automation.
- Participate in system-level testing and performance tuning.
- Work closely with Linux systems engineers, FPGA developers, and hardware designers.
- Contribute to architectural decisions and system-level design discussions.
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Support iterative development cycles leading to a product release, with ongoing support for future satellite missions.
- Proven experience developing firmware for microcontrollers in embedded systems.
- Strong understanding of hardware/software integration and debugging.
- Hands-on development with ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers, especially the SAMD21 RT.
- Experience writing bare metal device drivers and integrating bootloaders for bare-metal systems.
- Proficiency with low-level communication protocols such as I2C, SPI, and UART.
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Familiarity with FreeRTOS or similar real-time operating systems.
- Experience implementing IPMI for embedded systems, particularly in rugged or space-grade environments.
- Ability to interpret and implement requirements from VPX standards documentation.
- Comfort working in a hardware-centric development environment.
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Familiarity with ruggedized or space-grade electronics is a plus.
Join a dynamic and fast-paced hardware-centric environment where you will collaborate with a highly skilled cross-functional team. The role offers opportunities for technical leadership and innovation, with competitive compensation and benefits. Work on cutting-edge embedded platforms in a hands-on lab setting with prototype hardware.
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of Merritt Island, Florida.
Pay And Benefits
The pay range for this position is $60.00 - $76.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
Available For This Temporary Role May Include The Following
- Medical, dental & vision
- Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
- 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
- Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
- Short and long-term disability
- Health Spending Account (HSA)
- Transportation benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
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Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
This is a fully onsite position in Merritt Island,FL.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Oct 1, 2025.
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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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