Job title: Embedded Firmware Engineer
Job type: Permanent
Emp type: Full-time
Industry: Aerospace
Salary type: Annual
Salary from: USD $170,000.00
Salary to: USD $210,000.00
Location: Pasadena, CA
Job published: 28/04/2026
Job ID: 234396

Job Description

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.