Embedded Software Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton•Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

5d•$99,000 - $225,000•Remote

About The Position

The Opportunity: Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to make an impact on national defense? You understand your client’s environment and how to develop the right systems to support their mission. Your ability to translate real world needs into reliable embedded software makes you a key contributor to delivering client focused engineering solutions. As an experienced embedded systems and software engineer, you will help solve complex challenges that drive the development of next generation satellite systems. You will take on a hands-on role in designing, implementing, and testing embedded software architectures that interface directly with FPGA based processing pipelines and spacecraft subsystems. You’ll enhance these systems through advanced technology solutions that meet demanding space and mission requirements. You’ll apply your expertise while providing guidance to a cross-domain hardware–software team focused on digital design, verification, and system integration. In this role, you will collaborate closely with FPGA engineers, RF engineers, and systems engineers to ensure seamless interaction between embedded software components and onboard electronics. Through this work, you will help translate system level requirements into robust, real-time software implementations that enable reliable on-orbit performance. Join our team and help shape the future of resilient space systems in support of critical national security missions. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

5+ years of experience developing embedded software in C or C++
Experience with embedded Linux, RTOS development, or bare metal firmware
Experience designing software for real-time systems or high reliability applications
Experience integrating software with custom digital hardware such as FPGA based systems
Experience with software-hardware debugging using tools such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, or protocol analyzers
Experience with configuration management, automated testing, CI/CD, and automated build systems
Experience with software architecture design, communication interfaces such as SPI, I2C, UART, or LVDS, and hardware abstraction layers
Experience using scientific or analysis tools such as MATLAB or Python for algorithm development or data evaluation
Secret clearance
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science

Nice To Haves

Experience working with cross-functional teams and remote team members
Experience with space qualified embedded systems or satellite subsystem design
Experience with Yocto, BitBake, U Boot, or device tree development
Experience with embedded cybersecurity, secure boot, or trusted execution environments
Experience with DSP algorithms and real-time signal processing software
Experience with software simulation, hardware in the loop testing, or digital twin environments
Experience with MBSE and MBSE tools such as MagicDraw
Knowledge of radiation tolerant computing techniques or system hardening approaches
Knowledge of RF systems, telemetry or command subsystems, or spacecraft communication protocols

Responsibilities

Designing, implementing, and testing embedded software architectures that interface directly with FPGA based processing pipelines and spacecraft subsystems.
Enhancing systems through advanced technology solutions that meet demanding space and mission requirements.
Providing guidance to a cross-domain hardware–software team focused on digital design, verification, and system integration.
Collaborating closely with FPGA engineers, RF engineers, and systems engineers to ensure seamless interaction between embedded software components and onboard electronics.
Translating system level requirements into robust, real-time software implementations that enable reliable on-orbit performance.