Senior Embedded Software Designer

Senior Embedded Software Designer (6+ month Contract)  Canada / United States
Engineering - Software /
Full-time Contract /
Remote

* Competitive compensation  with a robust equity plan to share in our success.

* Comprehensive coverage for health, dental, and vision insurance
-including dependents.

* Unlimited vacation, supportive parental leave policy,  and company-wide holiday shutdown.

* Semi-annual company-wide parties  and frequent in-office team events.

* Relocation packages  available for approved roles.
* $1,500 annual professional development fund  to support your growth.

* Fully stocked Toronto office kitchen  with snacks, drinks, games and top-notch kitchen appliances.

* Town Halls, Celebration Calls, and Company-wide events  to stay connected and engaged.

* We’re a certified   Great Place to Work , seven years in a row.
We're on the hunt for a top-tier  Senior Embedded Software Engineer  for a 6+ month contract. Your focus will be on software development and maintenance required for both space and ground-based assets for a growing fleet of spacecraft. You'll be relied upon for input and decisions that will directly impact design and operation.

Key Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and maintain reliable, high-quality embedded software for both spacecraft and ground-based systems supporting a growing fleet of satellites
Design and implement secure communications capabilities, including encryption, authentication, and key exchange for next-generation data links
Build and maintain low-level software components including device drivers, kernel modules, hardware interfaces, and platform services
Develop automated tests, validation tools, and technical documentation to support robust software delivery and long-term maintainability
Participate in software architecture discussions, design reviews, and code reviews to ensure software quality and system reliability
Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define system requirements, debug complex issues, and evolve system architecture
Identify performance gaps, reliability risks, and architectural shortcomings in existing systems, and drive improvements across the software stack
Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior engineers while contributing to engineering best practices and development standards
Required Skills &

Qualifications:

6+ years of experience developing embedded software for complex, high-reliability systems
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
Strong software engineering fundamentals, including system design, debugging, testing, performance analysis, and maintainable code development
Proficiency in C/C++ for embedded systems, including concurrency, interrupt handling, memory-mapped peripherals, and hardware communication interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, and CAN
Experience developing software for embedded Linux and/or RTOS environments, including familiarity with build systems such as Yocto/Open Embedded and operating systems such as FreeRTOS
Experience developing low-level embedded Linux components including kernel modules, device drivers, and device tree integrations
Experience developing and maintaining automated test frameworks, validation tooling, or hardware/software integration test environments
Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across software, hardware, and operations teams
Proficiency with modern software development workflows and tools, including Git-based version control and code review practices
Demonstrates a willingness to adopt and effectively utilize AI-assisted engineering tools, applying sound judgment to improve productivity, quality, and innovation while continuously adapting to evolving technologies

Bonus Points:

Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
Experience developing software for aerospace applications
Experience implementing embedded security solutions such as secure boot, hardware security modules (HSMs), certificate/key management, authentication, or encrypted communications
Familiarity with Linux networking concepts and infrastructure, including routing, interfaces, netlink, or packet-processing pipelines
Experience developing multi-stage bootloaders
Strong knowledge of computer networking and modern networking protocols

Experience with RTL (Verilog and/or VHDL) and embedded So Cs