Senior Embedded Platform Engineer

The role

You will architect, implement, and maintain real-time firmware for safety-critical embedded control platforms. This includes owning BSPs, drivers, RTOS/bare-metal execution, and hardware bring-up to support actuators, motor drives, BMS, and sensors.

What you will do

• Design and maintain real-time firmware architecture for safety-critical embedded control platforms.
• Own timing-sensitive firmware layers, interrupt structure, task scheduling, and deterministic data flow.
• Develop firmware frameworks for reusable control execution, communication, and diagnostics.
• Develop and maintain embedded software in C/C++ on real-time microcontroller platforms.
• Own board support packages, peripheral initialization, and low-level hardware abstraction layers.
• Develop and debug drivers for peripherals such as CAN, SPI, Ethernet, ADC, PWM, GPIO, timers, and watchdogs.
• Support hardware bring-up, board validation, and low-level debugging.
• Diagnose issues involving MCU configuration, clocks, interrupts, and communication links.
• Implement embedded communication infrastructure for protocols such as CAN, SPI, Ethernet, and ARINC 825.
• Support integration with motor control, BMS, sensors, and vehicle control software.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing embedded firmware for complex real-time systems
• Strong proficiency in embedded C/C++ and real-time firmware architecture
• Experience with real-time microcontroller platforms such as TI C2000, NXP, or comparable safety-oriented MCUs
• Strong understanding of MCU peripherals, interrupts, timers, watchdogs, memory, clocks, ADC, PWM, GPIO, and communication interfaces
• Hands-on experience with communication protocols such as CAN, CAN derivatives, SPI, Ethernet, or ARINC 825
• Proven ability to integrate and debug software across hardware, firmware, and system boundaries
• Experience supporting hardware bring-up, lab validation, and HIL testing
• Strong analytical skills and low-level debugging ability

Nice to have

• Experience with TI C2000, NXP, or similar real-time control microcontrollers
• Prior work on safety-critical or regulated systems: aerospace, automotive, industrial
• Exposure to certification-oriented development processes: DO-178C, ARP4754/4761, ISO 26262 concepts
• Experience developing reusable BSPs, drivers, middleware, and embedded software frameworks
• Background supporting motor drives, BMS, power electronics, sensors, or vehicle control systems
• Experience supporting production launch, field issues, and long-term platform maintainability

Before you apply

• All final candidates must successfully complete a background check and drug screening as a condition of employment.

About the company

Neon Aero, Inc is an aerospace company that combines start-up agility with aerospace expertise to design, build, and scale aircraft. They leverage automation, AI-driven tools, and a digital backbone to accelerate innovation.