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Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer

Edison Smart®
Los Angeles, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/28/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/27/2026

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.

Salary : $170,000 - $210,000

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