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Senior Embedded Engineer

Motion Recruitment
San Jose, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/18/2026 CLOSED ON 4/17/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Embedded Engineer position at Motion Recruitment?

We’re supporting a space-technology organization building advanced systems that operate in highly constrained, mission-critical environments. Their work blends custom hardware, real-time control logic, and embedded software that must perform with absolute reliability in orbit.

They’re hiring a Senior Flight Software Engineer to develop software that sits at the core of system behavior from low-level embedded code to command and control layers that coordinate multiple subsystems. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building high-reliability logic, integrating with hardware teams, and shaping technical decisions across the stack.

Required Skills & Experience

  • Strong industry experience writing embedded or real-time software for safety-critical or mission-critical systems
  • Expertise in Modern C for deterministic, high-reliability development
  • Background working with embedded Linux, RTOS environments, or bare-metal platforms
  • Experience integrating software with hardware, avionics, or multi-subsystem architectures
  • Ability to own major features end-to-end, from architecture through testing and validation

Preferred Experience

  • Prior work in aerospace, robotics, autonomy, sensors, or other real-time system domains
  • Experience contributing to fault-tolerant or distributed embedded systems
  • Familiarity with automated testing at unit, subsystem, and system levels (including HIL/SIL)
  • Comfortable presenting technical concepts to cross-disciplinary engineering teams

What You’ll Be Doing Core Software Development (~80%)

  • Implementing and integrating embedded flight logic
  • Designing architecture for new features and system components
  • Developing command, control, and subsystem-interaction software
  • Working closely with hardware, firmware, and systems engineering teams
  • Contributing to automated validation for mission-critical features

Collaboration & Technical Ownership (~20%)

  • Influencing technical direction across subsystems
  • Participating in design reviews and code reviews
  • Helping drive engineering best practices and documentation

Compensation & Perks

  • Competitive salary
  • Signing/relocation bonus (~$10K)
  • Generous equity component
  • Automatic 401(k) contribution (approximately 3%)
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Paid family and medical leave
  • Flexible or unlimited PTO
  • Daily catered lunch

Location

Full-time, onsite role in coastal Southern California

Work Authorization

Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Posted By: Jaclyn Blackwell

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