Senior Avionics Embedded Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain embedded software for flight computers, avionics subsystems, and vehicle control systems
• Develop high-reliability software in C and C++ for real-time embedded systems in aerospace environments
• Develop and maintain Board Support Packages (BSPs), hardware abstraction layers, bootloaders, and device drivers
• Perform board bring-up and hardware enablement on processor and FPGA-based platforms
• Design vehicle-wide communication architectures using DDS, CoAP, and other networking technologies
• Execute unit tests, integration tests, and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) verification campaigns
• Debug complex hardware-software interactions using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG debuggers

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Aerospace Engineering
• 5+ years of professional experience in embedded software for aerospace, defense, robotics, or automotive
• Strong proficiency in modern C and C++
• Experience with bare-metal, RTOS, or Embedded Linux environments
• Experience with embedded communication protocols (SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, RS-422)
• Experience with distributed embedded systems and middleware (DDS, CoAP, MQTT, gRPC, TCP/IP)
• Strong Python development skills for test automation and tooling
• Proficiency with Git-based workflows

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing flight software for spacecraft, launch vehicles, or hypersonic vehicles
• Experience with NXP i.MX RT, STM32, TI Sitara, Xilinx Zynq, or AMD Versal
• Experience with Yocto, Buildroot, or PetaLinux
• Experience with high-speed interfaces like PCIe, GigE Vision, or USB 3.0
• Experience with FPGA development or HDL design
• Experience with fault-tolerant and safety-critical software architectures

About the Company

Inversion builds advanced reentry systems to deliver next-generation capabilities from space, turning Low-Earth Orbit into an on-demand logistics domain.