Embedded Software Engineer
Loft Orbital Solutions9 days ago
Base Salary
$150k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain hardware abstraction layers, device drivers, and board support packages.
- Develop and optimize hardware interfaces, peripherals, and data-transfer mechanisms.
- Lead board bring-up, hardware/software integration, and low-level debugging.
- Write reliable C/C++ software for embedded Linux and/or RTOS platforms.
- Diagnose complex issues using hardware documentation, debugging tools, and direct hardware testing.
- Develop unit and integration tests to validate software on target hardware.
- Collaborate with hardware, FPGA, and systems engineers to deliver robust, flight-ready solutions.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional embedded software development experience in C and/or C++.
- Strong hands-on experience designing and developing HALs and low-level device drivers.
- Experience with BSPs, register-level programming, and hardware/peripheral configuration.
- Experience with board bring-up, hardware/software integration, and low-level debugging.
- Experience with embedded Linux and/or RTOS platforms.
- Understanding of UART, SPI, I²C, DMA, Ethernet, LVDS, or SpaceWire.
- Experience with GDB, JTAG, logic analyzers, or oscilloscopes.
- Ability to read schematics and datasheets and troubleshoot across hardware and software.
- Preferred qualifications include Linux kernel internals, kernel-space driver development, device trees, Yocto or Buildroot, ARM-based SoCs, FPGA integration, aerospace or safety-critical software, radiation mitigation including SEU handling, and embedded virtualization or hypervisor experience.
Benefits
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance options for employees and dependents.
- Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts, including an employer HSA contribution.
- Employer-paid life, AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
- Flexible time off, sick leave, and 12 paid holidays.
- 401(k) plan and equity options.
- Daily catered lunches and snacks.
- International exposure to the France-based team.
- Fully paid parental leave of 14 weeks for primary caregivers and 10 weeks for secondary caregivers.
- Carrot Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits with financial support.
- Off-sites, social events, and celebrations.
- Relocation assistance when applicable.
About Loft Orbital Solutions
Loft Orbital Solutions builds standardized satellite platforms and delivers end-to-end missions as a service for governments, companies, and research institutions. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held firm integrates, launches, and operates spacecraft to deploy Earth observation, IoT connectivity, on‑orbit compute, and national security payloads in months. Loft has flown more than 30 missions, using hardware and software abstraction layers atop commodity satellite buses.