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Sr. Embedded Software Engineer (Embedded Software Engineer, Sr)

Redwire Space
Marlborough, MA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/14/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/13/2026

Job Details

Join our team of innovators and get a chance to work alongside a team of talented, curious people that are passionate about designing and deploying solutions that are accelerating humanity's expansion into space.

Our team in Marlborough, MA has been actively accelerating humanity's expansion into space for multiple decades. During that time, our innovative team has been designing and manufacturing mission-critical, high reliability optical sensors for satellites providing guidance, navigation, situational awareness, and control capabilities. With many more exciting projects on the horizon, our team could use your curiosity, passion, talent and experience to help us Build Above.

Summary

Redwire Space Components, LLC has a current opportunity for a Sr. Embedded Software Engineer, located at our facility in Marlborough, MA. In this role you will....

Responsibilities
  • Work with software, hardware, and FPGA engineers to propose and develop software solution(s) to meet system specifications including performance requirements.
  • Work with the team to author / conduct software static and dynamic analysis.
  • Work with the team to draft and release relevant software documentation such as requirements specifications, design specifications, and design documents.
  • Use a solid grasp of the Xilinx Vitis unified software platform to build, deploy, test, and debug software on a Ultrascale based product.
  • Identify and acquire necessary software components to address requirements including in-house prior art, commercial IP, and selective open-source solutions that have acceptable quality and license provisions.
  • Collaborate on the development of Agile Epics & Stories to meet project objectives.
  • Create, organize, and estimate tasks required to meet story objectives including verification and/or demonstration.
  • Collaborate with SQA on test concepts, plans, and integration of testing into the development cycle.
  • Effectively document software designs.
  • Present and defend software solutions to other Engineers and customers (as required).

Ideal Experience
  • BS/MS Degree in EE, CS, CE or related field.
  • 5 or more years of years of experience building and shipping high reliability embedded systems using embedded Linux or RTOS (FreeRTOS preferred).
  • Experience in software development process using the Gitflow workflow model.
  • Experience with development tools including Atlassian and Jenkins automation.
  • Experienced with operating systems fundamentals such as schedulers, network stack, file system & memory management.
  • Experienced in software architecture, memory mapping, caching, DMA, interrupts.
  • Proficiency in C, C
  • Some limited travel required

Desired Skills
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Familiarity with Xilinx Vitis unified software development toolchain.
  • Experience with SoC/FPGA system design for hardware interfaces such as UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, Camera Sensor Interface (CSI) & Ethernet
  • User and proponent of Agile methods.
  • Experience with RTOS and/or Embedded Linux device drivers and bootloaders.
  • Experience in image processing for camera-based sensor applications.
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Experience with RTOS and/or Embedded Linux device drivers and bootloaders.
  • Experience in image processing for camera-based sensor applications
  • Experienced with the following highly desired:
    • Jira
    • Microcontrollers
    • YOCTO environment
    • Doxygen or other documentation generator tool

Pay Range

$119,000/yr. - $150,000/yr.

Grow with us as we innovate the next generation capabilities for a new era of space exploration! We offer a highly competitive benefits package along with a commitment to our core values of Integrity, Innovation, Impact, Inclusion, and Excellence.

Don't meet every single requirement above? No worries. We want people who can grow, collaborate and build a stronger team. We strive to build a diverse and inclusive culture, so if you're excited about this job posting, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Redwire is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Redwire is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

All offers of employment at Redwire are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check and your ability to provide proof of eligibility to work in the US. Note that some positions will also require ship or ability to obtain a security clearance due to requirements of a classified program.

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