Principal Embedded Software Architect - Space & RTOS

Socket.dev; Foster City, California (CA, MO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

SWISSto12 is seeking a Senior Software Architect to lead end-to-end architecture across product lines, ensuring coherent design for embedded and hardware-integrated systems. You will guide architectural governance, drive real-time trade-offs, and own the full SDLC with a focus on secure, scalable and highly available software platforms.

With 10+ years in software/system architecture and hands-on Python/C++ experience, you will mentor engineers, collaborate across teams and external partners, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years in software/system architecture or technical leadership for complex, mission-critical systems.
• Expertise in RTOS-based embedded systems, real-time processing, multi-threaded/concurrent systems, and hardware-interfaced software.
• Strong hands-on experience in Python and C/C++, across embedded, backend, and frontend layers including APIs and distributed architectures.
• Hands-on experience with DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, source control workflows, automated deployment processes and security principles.
• Experience leading architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and driving engineering standards.
• Excellent cross-functional communication with internal teams and external partners.
• Fluent written and verbal English; French a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end software architecture across product lines ensuring coherent design across subsystems.
• Establish architecture governance, reference architectures, and enforce consistency across teams and program increments.
• Drive cross-domain trade-offs balancing performance, timelines, maintainability and scalability in real-time environments.
• Lead the full SDLC: requirements analysis through production support and continuous improvement.
• Design and develop RTOS-based embedded systems, SDR-based systems, and hardware-integrated applications for real-time processing.
• Drive engineering best practices for testing, logging, documentation, code review etc.
• Define and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment quality gates for high availability.
• Mentor engineers through reviews and coaching; shape long-term engineering standards.
• Collaborate with infrastructure/DevOps to improve observability, reliability and deployment automation.
• Ensure security-by-design across authentication, secret handling, input validation and least privilege.

Skills

RTOS-based embedded systems

Real-time processing

Multithreaded/concurrent systems

Python

C/C++

DevSecOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Security principles

Architectural leadership

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline

Tools

APIs

Distributed architectures

Git

Job description

SWISSto12 is seeking a Senior Software Architect to lead end-to-end architecture across product lines, ensuring coherent design for embedded and hardware-integrated systems. You will guide architectural governance, drive real-time trade-offs, and own the full SDLC with a focus on secure, scalable and highly available software platforms.

With 10+ years in software/system architecture and hands-on Python/C++ experience, you will mentor engineers, collaborate across teams and external partners, and