Senior Firmware Engineer, Vehicle Verified today
The Role
You will develop and enhance low-level embedded software across the satellite platform. Working closely with custom hardware, you'll build software that brings spacecraft to life, from initial hardware bring-up through fully integrated, flight-ready systems.
You'll create embedded software that interfaces directly with sensors, actuators, and critical spacecraft subsystems including propulsion, attitude control, and power. Your work will be written primarily in Rust and deployed on microcontrollers across the platform, requiring strong fundamentals in real-time systems, resource-constrained environments, and fault-tolerant design.
Responsibilities
- Create embedded software architecture for real-time, fault tolerant control of a 20kW+ spacecraft.
- Develop embedded software for new hardware integrated throughout the satellite.
- Extend embedded software applications for managing hardware on some of the largest satellites that have ever flown.
- Scale embedded software across different satellite products by building software infrastructure and development processes.
- Debug complex HW/FW issues using traditional debug tools (JTAG/SWD, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes), and custom debug hooks both on the ground and in orbiting satellites.
- Mentor a diverse team of software engineers and instill embedded software best practices.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience developing embedded software in Rust, C, or C++, targeting microcontrollers (ARM, RISC-V, or similar).
- Strong understanding of microcontroller memory subsystem, instruction pipeline, interrupt and DMA controller.
- Experience collaborating with hardware engineering teams.
- Demonstrated ability to debug complex hardware/firmware issues.
Nice to Have
- Experience using Rust in hard real-time systems, either bare-metal or RTOS environments.
- Experience developing peripheral drivers without use of the vendor's software.
- Experience with spacecraft flight software development.
- Experience maintaining embedded software across multiple product revisions.
- Experience with software verification and testing methods.
- Experience with software and network performance analysis and debugging.
- Experience with fault tolerant software design and implementation.
- Experience defining, creating, and maintaining test systems for both hardware-in-the-loop and hardware-out-of-the-loop.
Compensation
- Base salary range: $160,000 - $220,000 + equity in the company.