Embedded Firmware Engineer — Spaceflight Hardware

Cosmic Frontier Labs; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Reproductive healthcare

HSA/FSA

Life and disability insurance

One Medical

401(k)

Education benefits

Cell phone reimbursement

Wi‑Fi reimbursement

One-time work-from-home stipend

Commuter benefits

Wellness programs

Job summary

Cosmic Frontier Labs is seeking a firmware engineer to bridge sensors, actuators, timing, and flight software for a high-reliability telescope system. You'll own embedded firmware end-to-end and drive hardware bring up on real boards with a focus on deterministic operation.

You will develop low-level drivers, interfaces, and telemetry, and contribute to HIL testing and robust fault handling in a fast-paced startup environment.

Qualifications

• Strong education in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering with significant embedded firmware experience.
• Proficiency in C or C++ for microcontrollers with low-level driver experience.
• Experience with board bring up and debugging with lab equipment and hardware/firmware integration.

Responsibilities

• Write and maintain firmware for embedded controllers interfacing with sensors and mechanisms with deterministic timing and fault handling.
• Own hardware bring up, drivers, and communications between embedded controllers and higher level compute.
• Build test hooks and HIL infrastructure for continuous firmware validation.

Skills

Embedded firmware

C/C++

Hardware bring up

Deterministic fault-tolerant firmware

Education

Electrical Engineering

Computer Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Hardware-in-the-loop

Job description

Cosmic Frontier Labs is seeking a firmware engineer to bridge sensors, actuators, timing, and flight software for a high-reliability telescope system. You'll own embedded firmware end-to-end and drive hardware bring up on real boards with a focus on deterministic operation.

You will develop low-level drivers, interfaces, and telemetry, and contribute to HIL testing and robust fault handling in a fast-paced startup environment.