Embedded Software Engineer, Validation

Quick Facts

• Role: Embedded Software Validation Engineer (Embedded Platform team)

Description

You will build automated validation systems that ensure reliability of an embedded platform powering autonomous aircraft in safety-critical environments. You will design and implement simulation and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) infrastructure to validate embedded platform services, working with Flight Software engineers to create automated scenarios that verify functionality, performance, reliability, and fault tolerance. This is a software engineering role focused on scalable validation infrastructure, not manual testing.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain automated validation infrastructure for embedded platform software
• Build simulation and HIL test environments that exercise platform services under realistic operating conditions
• Develop automated test scenarios for core platform capabilities:
  • Interprocess communication (IPC)
  • Logging and observability
  • Communication bridges
  • Over-the-air (OTA) update systems
  • Live telemetry and cloud connectivity
• Design tests validating functionality, reliability, performance, and behavior under fault conditions
• Develop stress, endurance, regression, and fault-injection test suites for distributed embedded systems
• Partner with Embedded Platform engineers to improve testability and define validation strategies during feature design
• Build tooling for automated test orchestration, execution, reporting, and dashboards
• Contribute to continuous integration pipelines and automated validation workflows
• Investigate failures across simulation, HIL, and production environments to identify root causes
• Occasionally contribute improvements to production embedded software to increase reliability, observability, or testability
• Increase coverage of simulation and HIL testing across the Embedded Platform stack
• Identify reliability and performance issues before they reach flight hardware
• Improve observability and testability of core middleware through collaboration with platform engineers
• Enable faster Flight Software development while maintaining reliability expected of safety-critical systems

Requirements

• Experience developing embedded or systems software
• Professional experience with Rust, Python, or similar programming languages
• Experience working with embedded Linux systems
• Strong understanding of systems-level concepts: concurrency, networking, interprocess communication, distributed or multi-process systems
• Experience designing automated test frameworks or validation infrastructure
• Strong debugging and problem-solving across software and hardware boundaries
• Ability to collaborate closely with software engineers to improve system quality and testability

Benefits

• Starting cash range: $160,000–$250,000 (depending on level and qualifications)
• Equity compensation; discretionary annual or performance bonuses; sales incentives
• Benefits: medical, dental and vision insurance; paid time off; and more
• Possible levels: Software Engineer II ($160,000–$190,000), Senior Software Engineer ($190,000–$220,000), Staff Software Engineer ($220,000–$250,000)