Senior Embedded Flight Software Engineer

Senior Embedded Flight Software Engineer

Broomfield

Karman+

We are inventors, designers, engineers, scientists, tinkerers, entrepreneurs, adventurers, artists, activists, global citizens, architects, musicians, builders, writers, athletes and space nerds. We partner with the best minds and most experienced teams across industry and academia, bringing together the knowledge, experience, and skills required to navigate our critical path.

Mission We want to mine space resources from near-Earth asteroids to provide abundant, sustainable energy and resources in space and for Earth.

Vision

Asteroid mining has lived at the intersection of scientific research and popular culture for decades, with as many academic papers published as there are books, TV shows and movies about it.

Access to resources, with its finite nature and disparate distribution, plays an essential part in the geopolitical web of power and wealth. It has defined economic growth to such an extent that we have been using them as primary demarcation lines and identifiers in our history, from the stone to bronze and iron age to our current silicon age.

But our resources-driven growth faces a massive existential challenge, with climate change, ecosystem degradation and resource depletion demanding a complete reset. Humanity needs to shift global transportation, manufacturing, construction and energy onto a sustainable path.

Expanding beyond the Kármán line is where we believe transformative future growth and innovation will be found. Recent missions by NASA (OSIRIS-REx & DART) and JAXA (Hayabusa2) have firmly pushed the idea of using space resources from academic research into commercial opportunity.

We believe the Regolith Age
, powered by abundant space resources, is an inevitability that we can accelerate.

We value these principles:

• Diversity of thought
  . We believe that different perspectives drive better results. We aim to build diverse teams and a diverse company.
• Ownership, feedback and accountability.Ideas improve through collaboration, discussion and iteration. Decisions don’t follow the same pattern and revert to the mean when made in a group. We aim to have clear ownership, accountability for results and autonomy to deliver.
• No silos.We build cross-functional teams to be able to deliver on our goals. There are no predefined lanes for people to operate in, information is pushed out across all teams to make sure we benefit from cross-pollination.
• High talent bar, no a
  ** holes.We optimize for potential and a growth mindset. We value experience, but only when balanced with self-awareness and first principles thinking.
• Small is beautiful. The best results as well as the best work experience come from a small team of talented people working towards a common goal.

Position:
Senior Embedded Flight Software Engineer

Location:

Broomfield, CO

Position Type:
Full-time, On-site

Mission:
High Frontier – Architect, Develop, Integrate, Test, and Deploy Flight Software

At Karman+, we’re building spacecraft systems that will take us beyond Earth orbit. For the High Frontier mission, we need an experienced embedded flight software engineer to architect, develop, and maintain the low-level software running on our spacecraft's flight computers and subsystem controllers. This is a critical role for an engineer who thrives on end-to-end ownership of embedded systems, understands the hardware-software interface, and can bring up, integrate, and test firmware that must perform flawlessly in orbit.

What

it takes to be successful in this role:

As a Senior Embedded Flight Software Engineer, you’ll take technical ownership of the flight‑critical software stack. You’ll bring up dev boards, write low‑level C/C++ firmware, implement robust bootloading and fault handling, and drive the integration of software with avionics and payload systems. You’ll be responsible for ensuring the spacecraft’s computers can execute guidance loops, manage system state, handle commands and telemetry, and support in‑orbit updates.

This is a highly technical, hands‑on role that requires strong embedded development experience and systems‑level thinking. You’ll work directly with engineers across…