Senior Software Developer - Flight Controller; m​/f​/d

Position: Senior Software Developer - Flight Controller (m/f/d)
Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to develop, integrate, and maintain embedded flight-control software for advanced autonomous platforms.

The role is highly hands-on, covering real-time embedded development, autopilot integration, hardware/software integration, platform security, system bring-up, debugging, validation, and testing
. You will work with multidisciplinary engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable, production-quality software throughout the full development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain embedded flight-control software using C/C++ for real-time systems
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• Integrate software with sensors, communication interfaces, processors, and hardware peripherals
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• Perform platform bring-up, software integration, debugging, validation, and performance optimization
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• Participate in bench testing, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop activities, system integration, and field/flight testing
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• Contribute to software architecture, technical design reviews, code reviews, and engineering documentation.
• Integrate and maintain embedded security, secure boot, and trusted execution capabilities
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• Use Git-based development workflows
  , including branching, merging, pull requests, code reviews, and release management.
• Support CI/CD pipelines, automated builds, testing, software packaging, and firmware deployment
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• Work closely with hardware, systems, security, test, manufacturing, and Dev Ops engineering teams
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• Support software quality, defect resolution, static analysis, security verification, and continuous improvement activities.

Experience

• 8+ years of embedded software engineering experience
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• 5+ years working with flight controllers, autopilot software, avionics, or comparable safety-critical embedded systems
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• Hands-on experience taking embedded software through development, hardware integration, testing, validation, and production release
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• Experience with in autonomous systems, aerospace, robotics, UAVs, or other complex real-time embedded environments
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Technical Skills

• Advanced C/C++ programming for real-time embedded systems.
• Python for tooling, scripting, test automation, and engineering workflows.
• Hands-on experience with autopilot / flight-control stacks such as PX4 or equivalent
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• Experience with MAVLink and Ground Control Station integration using QGround
  
  Control or similar platforms
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• Strong experience with RTOS environments such as NuttX
  , including scheduling, POSIX, IPC, memory protection, and device drivers.
• Embedded development experience on ARM Cortex-based platforms
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• Hands-on software and hardware integration experience.
• Embedded security experience including ARM Trust Zone, OP-TEE, Trusted Firmware, secure boot chains, eFUSE, and OTP
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• Experience with embedded communication interfaces including CAN-FD, SPI, I2C, and UART
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• Understanding of secure coding standards including MISRA C and SEI CERT
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• Knowledge of cryptographic technologies including TLS, AES, RSA, ECC, PKI, and key management
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• Strong experience with Git and collaborative source-code management workflows
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• Working knowledge of CI/CD, Dev Ops, build systems, automated testing, and firmware release processes
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• Experience with static analysis and software security tools such as Coverity, Sonar Qube, Black Duck, or equivalent
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• Working knowledge of MATLAB or similar engineering tools for testing, data analysis, simulation, and validation.
• Strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities within complex embedded environments.

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline
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• Master's degree or PhD is advantageous.
• Knowledge or certification relating to safety-critical software standards such as DO-178C and/or ISO 26262 is highly desirable.
• Experience with MATLAB or equivalent tools for test and validation workflows is preferred.

Industry / Domain

Autonomous Systems | Flight Control | Embedded Software | Safety-Critical Systems | Embedded Security