Job ID:
234396
Published date:
28/04/2026
Summary
Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer
Location: Los Angeles, Hybrid
Salary: $170,000 - $210,000 pa + equity
About the Role
A venture-backed space computing startup is hiring a Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer to work on flight-critical avionics systems for orbital platforms. You'll own hardware bring-up end-to-end and work across a lean, highly technical team at a genuinely early and consequential stage of the company.
Required Skills & Experience
- Embedded C/C++
- Bootloaders, BSPs, HALs, and hardware-facing device drivers
- Embedded Linux
- Bare-metal and RTOS firmware
- Board bring-up
- ARM based microcontroller architectures
- Peripheral drivers and communication protocols (CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, RS485, SpaceWire, CCSDS etc.)
- Hardware test & prototyping
Beneficial Skills & Experience
- Experience with Nvidia Jetson platforms
- Flight software architecture and FDIR concepts
- Radiation-tolerant or space-grade MCUs
- CI/CD pipelines for embedded systems
If you are interested and think you have the skills required as an Embedded Firmware Engineer, please don’t hesitate to apply.