Principal Embedded Systems Engineer

Principal Embedded Systems Engineer / Embedded Systems Lead

EVONA is partnering with a venture-backed space technology company developing next-generation spacecraft and payload systems.

We’re looking for a Principal Embedded Systems Engineer who can operate across both hardware and software and take genuine ownership of embedded systems from initial architecture through integration, testing, and flight readiness.

This is not a purely embedded software position. You’ll work across processor and microcontroller selection, embedded electronics, firmware, real-time software, communications, sensors, actuators, and spacecraft-level integration.

• 7+ years of embedded systems experience in space, aerospace, defense, robotics, autonomous systems, or similarly complex hardware
• Strong C/C++ and real-time embedded software experience
• Experience selecting and working with processors, microcontrollers, FPGAs, memory, and embedded interfaces
• Hands-on board bring-up, debugging, firmware development, and hardware/software integration
• Experience interfacing directly with sensors, actuators, motors, cameras, or other electronic hardware
• Strong understanding of deterministic timing, interrupts, synchronization, concurrency, and RTOS environments
• Experience with interfaces such as CAN, Space Wire, Ethernet, RS-422/485, SPI, I2C, UART, or LVDS
• Comfortable using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG, protocol analyzers, and other lab equipment
• Ability to take technical ownership across architecture, development, HIL/SIL testing, verification, and system integration
• Spacecraft avionics, flight computers, precision pointing systems, optical payloads, radiation-tolerant electronics, FPGA interfaces, and high-power electronics experience would all be highly valuable.

This can be structured as either a Principal-level individual contributor position or an Embedded Systems leadership role
, depending on experience.

If you’re the type of engineer who is equally comfortable discussing system architecture, debugging a board in the lab, and writing low-level embedded software, I’d be keen to speak.