Senior Embedded Software Engineer
📌Sterling Heights, MI, United States 🇺🇸
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
hybrid
Description
Join a leader in next-generation combat vehicle technology. Our Combat Mission Systems team in Sterling Heights is seeking experienced Senior Software Engineers passionate about real-time embedded software development. This role involves software requirements analysis, architecture and design, coding, cybersecurity hardening, hardware-software integration, troubleshooting, and software verification testing. We offer competitive salary and benefits, a 9/80 work schedule (every other Friday off), and 1-2 days remote work per week.
Location: Sterling Heights, United States
Work Mode: Hybrid
Role: Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Responsibilities
- Plan, lead, and execute architecture, design, development, maintenance, upgrades, porting, and verification/qualification of embedded software to enhance system functionality
- Mentor junior engineers in software development, testing, troubleshooting, and problem-solving
- Collaborate across engineering disciplines including mechanical, electrical, controls, systems, testing, and cybersecurity
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Ensure compliance with engineering principles, meet cost and schedule targets, and satisfy customer and company technical and quality requirements
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including customer interface experience
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Proficiency in C, C++, Python, and UNIX scripting/BASH
- Minimum 4 years in real-time embedded software development with Linux and/or VxWorks, including OS configuration
- Experience with MATLAB and Simulink auto code wrapping
- Multithreaded application development, including thread prioritization and synchronization
- Application development using communication protocols such as Ethernet, TCP/IP, UDP, CAN, MIL-STD-1553
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Requirements-based software implementation, verification, and traceability using DOORs
- Linux kernel and device driver development
- Development and troubleshooting of communications, device drivers, and IO interfaces
- Full software development lifecycle experience including cybersecurity requirements
- Experience with Time Sensitive Networks (TSN) and performance optimization
- FPGA programming experience
- Familiarity or willingness to learn Ada programming language
- Experience with MagicDraw, LabView, CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub, Bitbucket), version control (Git), and issue tracking (Jira)
- Familiarity with CMMI for development
- Experience with Qt and Squish for GUI development and testing
- Knowledge of computer networks and monitoring tools like WireShark
- Experience with HIL and automated testing using National Instruments VeriStand and TestStand
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Familiarity with military and commercial design and development standards and combat vehicle systems
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Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related STEM field
- Ability to obtain a US Secret Security Clearance required
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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