Senior Embedded Flight Software Engineer

Draper; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 63,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Draper is seeking a senior embedded-software professional to lead the development of high‑performance, fault‑tolerant flight software for resource‑constrained platforms across air, space, undersea and hypersonic domains.

The Senior Engineer will own the end‑to‑end software lifecycle—from requirements analysis and algorithm design through implementation, verification and documentation—while applying a security‑by‑design mindset and lightweight DevSecOps practices.

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Evaluates requirements, proposes solutions, explores design trades to support a design.

Skills

Embedded development

Real-time systems

C/C++

Rust language

Mentorship

Debugging

OS-level programming

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE

Tools

JTAG debugging

In-circuit emulators

SysML/UML

CM tools (Git)

Job description

Draper is seeking a senior embedded-software professional to lead the development of high‑performance, fault‑tolerant flight software for resource‑constrained platforms across air, space, undersea and hypersonic domains.

The Senior Engineer will own the end‑to‑end software lifecycle—from requirements analysis and algorithm design through implementation, verification and documentation—while applying a security‑by‑design mindset and lightweight DevSecOps practices.