Position Details

Type Full-Time

Experience senior

Exp. Years 5+ years

Education Not specified

Category Software Engineering

About this role

Build low-level embedded satellite flight software for Amazon Leo avionics hardware. Develop, test, and verify reliable bare-metal/RTOS software, collaborate with hardware and controls engineers, and lead design decisions as a senior engineer.

Key Responsibilities

Develop low-level embedded software for satellite hardware
Develop and verify state machine-based embedded software
Create fault-tolerant embedded software for a radiation environment
Debug using logic analyzers and oscilloscopes
Own lifecycle activities: requirements gathering, design, code, test, and code/test coverage

Technical Overview

This embedded software role emphasizes C programming and bare metal or RTOS development, including state machine verification, fault-tolerant design for radiation environments, and hardware-level debugging using logic analyzers and oscilloscopes. It covers full lifecycle work from requirements gathering through design, code, testing, and coverage.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior embedded software engineer with 5+ years of professional software development experience and strong C/C++ (and possibly Rust/assembly) skills. They have built bare-metal or RTOS embedded systems, developed state machines, and delivered fault-tolerant software for reliability in harsh environments while also serving as a tech lead or mentor.

Must-Have Skills

5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patternsreliability and scaling)Experience as a mentortech lead or leading an engineering teamExperience programming in CExperience writing embedded software for bare metal or RTOS systems

Tools & Platforms

logic analyzersoscilloscopes

Required Skills

Sr. SDEembedded softwareassemblyCC++Rustbare metalreal-time embedded softwarestate machine development and verificationfault-tolerant softwareradiation environmentlogic analyzersoscilloscopesRTOSrequirements gatheringtestcode/test coverageavionics system requirementsdesign patternsreliability and scalingtech lead mentoring

Hard Skills

low-level embedded softwareassemblyCC++Rustembedded softwarebare metalreal-time embedded softwarestate machine developmentstate machine verificationfault-tolerant softwareradiation environmentlogic analyzersoscilloscopesembedded software troubleshooting techniquesavionics system requirementsflight softwaresoftware development lifecycle including requirements gatheringdesigncodetestand code/test coverage

Soft Skills

requirements gatheringdocumentationcross-functional collaboration with hardware engineerscommunication to developersreliability-focused mindset

Industry & Role

Industry Aerospace

Job Function Design and implement reliable embedded flight software for satellite avionics

Role Subtype Embedded Engineer

Tech Domains Linux, Cybersecurity, Amazon Web Services

Keywords for Your Resume

Sr. SDESoftware Development EngineerEmbedded Satellite SWAmazon Leonon-internship professional software development experienceembedded softwareassemblyCC++Rustbare metalreal-time embedded softwarestate machine developmentfault-tolerant softwareradiation environmentlogic analyzersoscilloscopesRTOSrequirements gatheringdesigncodetestcode/test coveragedesign patternsreliabilityscalingtech leadEmbedded software

Deal Breakers

Experience programming in C, Experience writing embedded software for bare metal or RTOS systems, 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

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