Flight Firmware Engineer

The role

Develop low-level software connecting sensing hardware to airborne and spaceborne operations. Work with payload electronics, flight software, systems, test, and operations through board bring-up, integration, qualification, and flight.

What you will do

• 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.

Required qualifications

• 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 have

• 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.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation based on experience
• Early-stage equity package
• 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
• Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths

Before you apply

• Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, a lawful permanent resident (green card holder), or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

About the company

Matter is building the future of vision AI by pairing a sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model. The team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL and designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense.