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Sr. Embedded Platform Engineer

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📍 Irvine, CA, United States 🇺🇸

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Key Skills

firmwareC/C++CANSPIBMS

Industry

AerospaceAutomotive

Job Description

Title: Sr. Embedded Platform Engineer

Location: Irvine, CA (Onsite)

Duration: long term

Visa: US Citizens

Positon type: Open (FTE/C2C)

Domain: aerospace.

Role Summary

We re seeking a Senior Platform / Real-Time Embedded Firmware Engineer with strong low-level embedded software expertise and a passion for building robust, deterministic firmware for safety-critical control systems.
This role focuses on the real-time firmware foundation that enables actuators, motor drives, battery management systems (BMS), sensors, and vehicle-level systems to operate reliably.
You will architect, implement, and maintain firmware across real-time microcontroller platforms, owning board support packages (BSPs), drivers, RTOS/bare-metal execution, timing, peripheral interfaces, diagnostics hooks, and hardware bring-up.
You will work closely with embedded systems, motor control, BMS, and vehicle control software engineers to ensure the platform layer is reliable, reusable, and deterministic.

Key Responsibilities Real-Time Firmware Architecture

Design and maintain real-time firmware architecture for safety-critical embedded control platforms.
Own timing-sensitive firmware layers, interrupt structures, task scheduling, execution order, and deterministic data flow between hardware, drivers, middleware, and application software.
Develop firmware frameworks that support reusable control execution, communication, diagnostics, monitoring, and system integration across multiple projects.

MCU, BSP & Driver Development

Develop and maintain embedded software in C/C++ on real-time microcontroller platforms such as TI C2000, NXP, or comparable safety-oriented MCUs.
Own board support packages, peripheral initialization, device configuration, and low-level hardware abstraction layers.
Develop and debug drivers for CAN, SPI, Ethernet, ADC, PWM, GPIO, timers, watchdogs, and other MCU peripherals.

Hardware Interfaces & Bring-Up

Support hardware bring-up, board validation, and low-level debugging across software and hardware boundaries.
Diagnose issues involving MCU configuration, clocks, interrupts, peripherals, sensors, motor drive interfaces, BMS interfaces, and communication links.
Work closely with electrical, controls, and systems teams to ensure the embedded firmware correctly supports actuator control, power electronics, sensors, and vehicle-level hardware.

Communication & Diagnostics Infrastructure

Implement robust embedded communication infrastructure for protocols such as CAN, CAN derivatives, SPI, Ethernet, ARINC 825, and other aerospace or automotive buses.
Support reliable data exchange, message timing, arbitration behavior, diagnostics, fault detection, and recovery at the firmware/platform level.

Integration, Test & Tooling

Support integration with motor control, BMS, sensors, and vehicle control software.
Develop test hooks, debug interfaces, logging mechanisms, automation support, and data collection tools for lab validation, HIL testing, and system debugging.
Support SIL/HIL environments where firmware interfaces, drivers, and platform behavior need to be validated.

Safety, Process & Lifecycle Support

Support safety-critical embedded software development by following disciplined software development processes.
Contribute to requirements, traceability, verification planning, configuration control, and certification readiness activities.
Align development activities with standards such as DO-178C, ARP4754/4761, ISO 26262, or equivalent safety frameworks.

Required Qualifications

5+ years of experience developing embedded firmware for complex real-time systems.
Strong proficiency in embedded C/C++ and real-time firmware architecture.
Experience with real-time microcontroller platforms such as TI C2000, NXP, or comparable safety-oriented MCUs.
Strong understanding of MCU peripherals, interrupts, timers, watchdogs, memory, clocks, ADC, PWM, GPIO, and communication interfaces.
Hands-on experience with communication protocols such as CAN, CAN derivatives, SPI, Ethernet, or ARINC 825.
Proven ability to integrate and debug software across hardware, firmware, and system boundaries.
Experience supporting hardware bring-up, lab validation, and HIL testing.
Strong analytical skills and low-level debugging ability.

Preferred / Bonus Experience

Experience with TI C2000, NXP, or similar real-time control microcontrollers.
Prior work on safety-critical or regulated systems in aerospace, automotive, or industrial domains.
Exposure to certification-oriented development processes such as DO-178C, ARP4754/4761, and ISO 26262.
Experience developing reusable BSPs, drivers, middleware, and embedded software frameworks.
Background supporting motor drives, BMS, power electronics, sensors, or vehicle control systems.
Experience supporting production launch, field issues, and long-term platform maintainability.

Why This Role Matters

This role provides the real-time firmware foundation that every higher-level control function depends on.
Your work ensures that MCUs, peripherals, drivers, communication links, timing, diagnostics, and hardware interfaces behave predictably under all conditions.