Senior Embedded Platform Engineer
Neon Aerospace3 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain deterministic real-time firmware architecture for safety-critical embedded control platforms.
- Own timing-sensitive firmware layers, interrupt structures, task scheduling, execution order, and data flow across hardware, drivers, middleware, and applications.
- Develop embedded C/C++ software, BSPs, peripheral initialization, hardware abstraction layers, and low-level drivers on real-time microcontrollers.
- Implement communication, diagnostics, monitoring, fault detection, recovery, and data exchange infrastructure.
- Support hardware bring-up, board validation, low-level debugging, and integration across software, firmware, hardware, and system boundaries.
- Develop test hooks, debug interfaces, logging, automation support, and data collection tools for lab validation and HIL testing.
- Integrate firmware with motor control, BMS, sensor, and vehicle control software.
- Contribute to requirements, traceability, verification planning, configuration control, and certification readiness.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience developing embedded firmware for complex real-time systems.
- Strong proficiency in embedded C/C++ and real-time firmware architecture.
- Experience with real-time microcontroller platforms such as TI C2000, NXP, or comparable safety-oriented MCUs.
- Strong understanding of MCU peripherals, interrupts, timers, watchdogs, memory, clocks, ADC, PWM, GPIO, and communication interfaces.
- Hands-on experience with CAN, CAN derivatives, SPI, Ethernet, or ARINC 825.
- Ability to integrate and debug software across hardware, firmware, and system boundaries.
- Experience with hardware bring-up, lab validation, and HIL testing.
- Strong analytical and low-level debugging skills.
- Preferred experience includes safety-critical or regulated aerospace, automotive, or industrial systems.
- Preferred experience includes DO-178C, ARP4754/4761, ISO 26262 concepts, reusable BSPs and drivers, motor drives, BMS, power electronics, sensors, vehicle controls, production launches, field issues, and long-term platform maintainability.
- Successful completion of a background check and drug screening is required for final candidates.
About Neon Aerospace
Neon Aerospace designs and builds aerospace hardware, with a focus on advanced composite propellers, flight controls, actuation, and other electromechanical systems for aircraft programs. The privately held company works with customers to take hardware from architecture through validation and production, using automation and AI-driven tools to accelerate development. Founded in 2025 and headquartered in Irvine, CA, it targets OEMs and emerging aviation platforms that need scalable manufacturing and rapid iteration.