Senior Avionics Embedded Software Engineer

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Inversion

Making Earth radically more accessible by turning space into a global logistics network

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inversionspace.com

51-200 employees

Defense and Space Manufacturing

Playa Vista, California

2021

Privately Held

17k LinkedIn followers

Raised $54.1M

• As a Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Inversion you will develop the
• software that powers and controls Inversion’s hypersonic reentry vehicle. You
• will work across the full software stack, from low-level hardware interfaces and
• board support packages to real-time vehicle control, networking, and
• mission-critical flight applications.
• You will partner closely with electrical, systems, GNC, and integration
• engineers to bring up new hardware, develop flight software architectures, and
• deliver reliable software capable of operating through all phases of flight.
• This role requires strong ownership, hands-on debugging skills, and the ability
• to rapidly solve challenging hardware-software integration problems.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain embedded software for flight computers,
• avionics subsystems, payload interfaces, and vehicle control systems.
• Develop high-reliability software in C and C++ for real-time embedded systems
• operating in mission-critical aerospace environments.
• Own software development throughout the entire product lifecycle, including
• requirements definition, architecture, implementation, verification, flight
• test support, and operational deployment.
• Develop and maintain Board Support Packages (BSPs), hardware abstraction
• layers, bootloaders, and device drivers for custom avionics hardware.
• Perform board bring-up and hardware enablement activities on new processor
• and FPGA-based platforms.
• Develop software interfaces for sensors, actuators, radios, power systems,
• storage devices, and vehicle networks.
• Design and implement vehicle-wide communication architectures enabling
• reliable exchange of telemetry, commands, sensor data, and control
• information across distributed embedded computing platforms using DDS, CoAP,
• and other modern networking technologies.
• Support distributed vehicle software architectures including telemetry,
• command and control, health monitoring, fault management, and data logging
• systems.
• Design and execute unit tests, integration tests, and Hardware-in-the-Loop
• (HIL) verification campaigns.
• Debug complex software and hardware interactions using oscilloscopes, logic
• analyzers, protocol analyzers, JTAG debuggers, and software instrumentation
• tools.
• Collaborate closely with electrical, systems, manufacturing, integration, and
• flight operations teams to rapidly identify and resolve vehicle-level issues.
• Participate in software design reviews, architecture reviews, code reviews,
• and flight readiness reviews.
• Support vehicle integration, environmental testing, flight test operations,
• and mission execution activities as required.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical
• Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Typically 5+ years of professional experience developing embedded software
• for aerospace, defense, robotics, automotive, or other high-reliability
• systems.
• Strong proficiency in modern C and C++ development.
• Experience developing software for bare-metal, RTOS, or Embedded Linux
• environments.
• Experience debugging software at the hardware boundary, including processor
• bring-up and peripheral integration.
• Strong understanding of computer architecture, memory systems, interrupts,
• DMA, and embedded operating systems.
• Experience developing software interfaces for common embedded communication
• protocols including SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, and RS-422/-232/-485.
• Experience developing distributed embedded systems using communication
• middleware and protocols such as DDS (Cyclone DDS, Fast DDS, RTI Connext),
• CoAP, MQTT, gRPC, REST, TCP/IP, UDP, and Ethernet.
• Experience with software verification, unit testing, integration testing, and
• root-cause analysis.
• Proficiency with Git-based development workflows and modern software
• development practices.
• Strong Python development skills for test automation, hardware control, and
• engineering tooling.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively across
• multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government Secret/Top
• Secret security clearance.
• Experience developing flight software for spacecraft, launch vehicles,
• hypersonic vehicles, autonomous aircraft, or defense systems.
• Experience with NXP i.MX RT, STM32, TI Sitara, Xilinx Zynq, AMD Versal, or
• similar embedded processing platforms.
• Experience with embedded operating systems (FreeRTOS, Zephyr, Embedded Linux)
• and embedded Linux build systems (Yocto/OpenEmbedded, Buildroot, PetaLinux),
• including development of custom Linux distributions, BSPs, and production
• image pipelines.
• Experience developing device drivers, Board Support Packages (BSPs),
• bootloaders, and low-level hardware interfaces.
• Experience with deterministic networking, Precision Time Protocol (PTP), DDS
• middleware, or distributed embedded systems.
• Experience with high-speed interfaces such as PCIe, GigE Vision, USB 3.0,
• CameraLink, Aurora, or GMSL.
• Experience with FPGA development, HDL design, or hardware acceleration
• architectures.
• Experience developing automated test frameworks and Hardware-in-the-Loop
• (HIL) systems.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity concepts, secure boot, encryption, and trusted
• computing architectures.
• Experience with fault-tolerant and safety-critical software architectures.
• Experience supporting vehicle integration campaigns, environmental testing,
• flight testing, or mission operations.
• Previous experience working in a fast-paced startup environment with
• aggressive development schedules.
• Our office headquarters is located in Playa Vista, CA. This position requires in
• office presence.
• The California annual base salary for this role is currently $139,000 -
• $201,000.  Pay Grades are determined by role, level, location, and alignment
• with market data.  Individual pay will be determined on a case-by-case basis and
• may vary based on the following considerations: interviews and an assessment of
• several factors that are unique to each candidate, job-related skills, relevant
• education and experience, certifications, abilities of the candidate and
• internal equity.
• To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the
• U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the
• Inversion provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and
• Notice [https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa] for further details.