Embedded Software Designer
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United States; Canada; Toronto, OntarioFull-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Experience
- 4+ years of experience
- Required Skills
- GitC++
Requirements
- 4+ 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/OpenEmbedded 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.
- Proficiency with modern software development workflows and tools, including Git-based version control and code review practices.
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.
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