Embedded Software Engineer – SoC/High-Performance (Secret)

Leidos; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 87,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos in San Diego is seeking an Embedded Software Engineer to design, develop, and integrate software for high‑performance SoC hardware in a defense context. You will work with multidisciplinary teams to deliver real-time software and hardware interfaces, leveraging C/C++, Linux, and DSP/RISC‑V targets.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, testing, and documentation, including building test plans and validating performance under stress conditions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in CS/EE/CE; 4+ years in embedded software development.
• Experience with IDEs such as VS Code or Eclipse.
• Experience with build tools (GCC, CMake, Make).
• Understanding hardware–software interaction and basic computer architecture.
• Version control experience (Git/SVN) and CI tools (Jenkins).
• Experience with software testing tools and methodologies.
• Ability to document developed software.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop advanced embedded systems as part of multidisciplinary teams.
• Develop software for DSP, ARM, or RISC‑V architectures.
• Create software for multi‑core bare metal, RTOS, and Linux environments.
• Read datasheets to understand hardware operation.
• Build and document test plans and software requirements specifications.
• Write low level C code to interface with CSRs and hardware components.
• Validate hardware performance under nominal and stress conditions.
• Build software using test driven development (TDD).
• Document software performance against KPIs for data-plane and control-plane processing.
• Communicate technical details of APIs and test results to engineers.

Skills

C/C++

Embedded systems

Linux development

VS Code

Eclipse

CI tools

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in CS/EE/CE

Master’s Degree in CS/EE/CE

Tools

VS Code

Eclipse

CMake

Make

Git

OpenOCD

Job description

Leidos in San Diego is seeking an Embedded Software Engineer to design, develop, and integrate software for high‑performance SoC hardware in a defense context. You will work with multidisciplinary teams to deliver real-time software and hardware interfaces, leveraging C/C++, Linux, and DSP/RISC‑V targets.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, testing, and documentation, including building test plans and validating performance under stress conditions.