Senior Embedded Software Engineer (Middleware)

Autonomous aircraft need onboard software that communicates, updates, reports health, and recovers predictably in safety-critical environments

The Embedded Platform team builds the middleware and infrastructure beneath the flight software stack on embedded Linux systems

You will own shared platform capabilities from architecture through production delivery, with success measured by dependable updates, diagnosable failures, stable service interfaces, and reliable integration for flight-software teams

Senior engineers lead substantial services and integrations; Staff engineers set direction across platform boundaries, resolve architectural tradeoffs, and establish standards used across the shared stack

Own the design, implementation, validation, and lifecycle of embedded middleware services for autonomous aircraft

Define and evolve IPC, communications-bridge, OTA-update, logging, observability, and service-lifecycle interfaces used across flight software

Deliver production Rust and C++ with testing, diagnostics, and maintainability built into each platform capability

Set technical direction for cross-service platform architecture, including interface decisions and tradeoffs that affect multiple flight-software teams

Partner with flight-software, hardware, and integration teams to ensure platform services operate reliably on embedded Linux aircraft systems

Investigate failures across software, operating-system, network, and hardware boundaries; drive corrective changes that improve reliability, performance, and operational visibility

Establish design-review and engineering practices that make services safer to deploy, easier to diagnose, and practical for downstream teams to adopt- Ability to debug complex behavior across services, operating systems, networks, and hardware

5–12 years developing embedded, systems, or platform software in production environments

Experience designing technical interfaces and carrying cross-functional integrations through delivery

For Staff-level scope, a record of leading architecture across multiple systems and influencing decisions beyond an individual component

Experience in aerospace, robotics, automotive, industrial, medical, or another high-reliability domain; autonomy, OTA, telemetry, Linux internals, or resource-constrained optimization are relevant

Strong Rust, C++, or comparable systems-programming skills, with experience delivering reliable software on embedded Linux

Working knowledge of concurrency, synchronization, networking, IPC, and distributed or multi-process systems