Flight Firmware Engineer

Matter Intelligence•El Segundo, CA

55d•Onsite

About The Position

Matter is hiring a Flight Firmware Engineer to develop the low-level software that connects our sensing hardware to reliable airborne and spaceborne operations. This role will work closely with payload electronics, flight software, systems, test, and operations through board bring-up, integration, qualification, and flight.

Requirements

Experience developing and debugging embedded software close to hardware.
Strong understanding of processors, peripherals, communication interfaces, timing, memory, and real-time behavior.
Hands-on experience with board bring-up, laboratory debugging, automated testing, and version-controlled software development.
Ability to work across firmware, electronics, flight software, systems engineering, and test disciplines.

Nice To Haves

Experience with aerospace, avionics, robotics, sensing, or other mission-critical embedded systems.
Experience with real-time operating environments, programmable logic interfaces, or high-throughput sensor data paths.
Familiarity with environmental qualification, fault-tolerant design, and flight anomaly response.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain embedded firmware, device drivers, and hardware-control interfaces for sensing payload electronics.
Support board bring-up, peripheral integration, command and telemetry paths, timing, and fault handling.
Translate system and hardware requirements into testable firmware behavior and clear interfaces with flight software.
Build unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop tests and support environmental and flight qualification activities.
Diagnose issues using logs, instrumentation, and test data; document root causes and implement reliable corrective actions.