Embedded Software Engineer

Embedded Software Engineer

Location: Manhattan Beach - 1 Sp Park R6 (K482), CA

Clearance Type: Unclassified

Rate: $65/Hr. W2

Description

The Embedded Software Engineer should have experience coordinating with different teams and stakeholders, including interfacing with partners from subcontract organizations. The embedded flight software is developed in a resource‑constrained target environment with soft and hard real‑time requirements. The software will typically implement complex data analysis, data routing, and/or control systems algorithms. Candidates will need familiarity with various processor, memory, and I/O architectures and be able to implement both procedural and embedded software in C/C++ utilizing a real‑time operating system (RTOS).

The ideal candidate should have academic and work experience in software engineering and development across the full life cycle for software systems on space programs. Experience working in a process‑oriented environment utilizing agile processes is also desired. The selected candidate should also have strong verbal and written communication skills and be comfortable working on teams with engineers from other engineering disciplines.

Must be comfortable working in a lab environment and executing to aggressive schedules.

The organization is seeking a candidate who demonstrates long term vision and execution as well as system‑level understanding. The ideal candidate has corporate experience in a full‑time role that requires cross‑collaboration with systems and hardware engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, document, integrate, test, and debug real‑time embedded flight software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions.
• Conduct multidisciplinary research and collaborate with systems and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of data processing systems for target software.
• Coordinate with different teams and stakeholders, including interfacing with partners from subcontract organizations.
• Determine overall system and user needs; analyze system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls; prepares operating instructions; designs and develops utility programs.
• Ensure software standards are met.
• Design and execute tests to ensure the software's functionality, performance, and reliability.

Basic Qualifications for Software Engineer:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related STEM degree with 5+ years of software development experience OR Master’s Degree with 3+ years of software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in embedded C/C++ development with emphasis in object‑oriented and thread‑safe programming.
• Experience developing embedded software in real‑time OS environment (e.g. RTEMS, Embedded Linux, VxWorks, Green Hills, FreeRTOS, etc.).
• Strong background in integrating and troubleshooting embedded software in lab environment.
• Demonstrated domain knowledge and experience working with satellite bus software.
• Proficiency with Python.
• Prior or current corporate experience in a full‑time role that requires cross‑collaboration with engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications for Software Engineer:

• Experience with RTEMS (Real‑Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems) Operating System.
• Experience writing driver‑level software for serial or networking applications (UART, TCP, UDP, CAN).
• Experience working in Agile software development using Atlassian Tool Suite (Bitbucket, Git Lab, Jira, Confluence) and Git version control.
• Experience with Shell scripting and TCL scripting language.
• Experience developing or interfacing with Optical, RF, or IR payloads.
• Candidate is able and willing to obtain and maintain a DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance.