Senior Embedded Engineer

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2 days ago Requisition

nou Systems, Inc. (nSI) is now officially a 100% ESOP company! We value teamwork and collaboration, and this transition allows us to take that commitment to a new level. nSI empowers our customers by supplying products, services, and expertise with powerful, data driven insights that transform defense systems and improve capabilities.

We are pleased to announce the opening for an Senior Embedded Engineer, who will join our Advanced Sensing Area in-person in our Huntsville, Alabama office and become part of our rapidly growing technology company operating in missile defense, cybersecurity, test range modernization, biotechnology, and space control market spaces. You will be part of a team known for turning research concepts into working prototypes quickly, staying hands-on from design through test.

This is a broad, hands-on role that functions at the intersection of hardware and software. You will own embedded work from end to end including defining the architecture, designing the board, writing firmware and programmable logic, establishing the hardware, and verifying it works as intended. The prototypes we build are meant to address problems at speed, but they are built with the discipline and strong systems engineering rigor.

Because you will support a range of programs across our team, the problems change, and so do the platforms..

Responsibilities:

• You will define embedded system architectures for prototype hardware, developing and allocating requirements, performing trade studies, and selecting processors, FPGAs, and components to meet size, weight, power, and performance needs.
• You will independently own embedded engineering tasks and work packages, making sound judgments about assumptions, design margins, and technical risk, and validating your results before others rely on them.
• You will develop FPGA designs in VHDL or Verilog/System Verilog, including writing RTL, building simulation test benches, achieving timing closure, and integrating vendor IP cores and high-speed interfaces.
• You will design printed circuit boards from schematic capture through layout, including component selection, power distribution, signal integrity, and design for manufacturability, and will work with fabrication and assembly vendors to get boards built.
• You will develop embedded software and firmware in C and C++ for microcontrollers, processors, and SoC platforms, including device drivers, bare-metal, RTOS, or embedded Linux applications, and the interfaces between the processor and programmable logic.
• You will bring up and debug new hardware in the lab, using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG, and in-system debug tools to troubleshoot to root cause across the board, the firmware, and the FPGA logic.
• You will integrate embedded hardware with sensors, RF front ends, data converters, and larger systems, implementing interfaces such as Ethernet, PCIe, SPI, I2C, and UART.
• You will plan and execute test and verification of prototype hardware, writing test plans and procedures, developing Python tools for test automation and data analysis, and documenting assumptions, methods, results, and limitations for internal stakeholders and customers.
• You will iterate, using test results and lessons learned in the lab to refine your designs, retire technical risk, and mature prototypes toward the next stage of development, maintaining the configuration control, documentation, and build quality needed for hardware to transition.
• You will use approved AI-enabled tools to accelerate coding, verification, analysis, and…