Senior Firmware Engineer, Vehicle

The role

You will develop and enhance low-level embedded software for satellite platforms. This includes hardware bring-up and building software that interfaces with sensors, actuators, and spacecraft subsystems.

What you will do

• Create embedded software architecture for real-time, fault tolerant control of a 20kW+ spacecraft.
• Develop embedded software for new hardware integrated throughout the satellite.
• Extend embedded software applications for managing hardware on large satellites.
• Scale embedded software across different satellite products by building software infrastructure and development processes.
• Debug complex HW/FW issues using traditional debug tools and custom debug hooks.
• Mentor a diverse team of software engineers and instill embedded software best practices.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing embedded software in either Rust, C, or C++, targeting microcontrollers (ARM, RISC-V, or similar).
• Strong understanding of your favorite microcontroller’s memory subsystem, instruction pipeline, interrupt and DMA controller.
• Experience collaborating with hardware engineering teams.
• Demonstrated ability to debug complex hardware/firmware issues.

Nice to have

• Experience using Rust in hard real-time systems, either bare-metal or RTOS environments.
• Experience developing peripheral drivers without use of the vendor’s software.
• Experience with spacecraft flight software development.
• Experience maintaining embedded software across multiple product revisions.
• Experience with software verification and testing methods.
• Experience with software and network performance analysis and debugging.
• Experience with fault tolerant software design and implementation.
• Experience defining, creating, and maintaining test systems for both hardware-in-the-loop and hardware-out-of-the-loop.

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Medical/dental/vision coverage
• Life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Many other perks

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. person as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.15 or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license.

About the company

K2 is building high-power satellite platforms for missions from LEO to deep space. The company is a high-growth Series D-funded company with over $1 billion in signed contracts.