Senior Embedded Flight Software Engineer – Aviation Safety

Socket.dev; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Reliable Robotics is seeking a Sr. Embedded Software Engineer to join the Embedded Systems team in Mountain View, CA.

You will develop low‑level flight software and firmware for the autonomy stack, including bare‑metal init, networking, protocol drivers, memory interfaces, and Python‑based test automation. Responsibilities include C/C++ requirements, design, code, unit tests, and CI infrastructure; contribute to DO‑178‑compliant development practices.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience developing C or C++.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Professional experience developing software for embedded, high‑performance, or safety‑critical applications.

Responsibilities

• Develop C/C++ flight software requirements, design, code, unit tests, and requirements‑based test cases in accordance with DO‑178C software development procedures.
• Focus areas include bare‑metal operating system and hardware initialization, networking, protocol drivers, and memory interfaces.
• Develop Python‑based software integration test cases.
• Develop and maintain Continuous Integration infrastructure for automating software integration, build, testing, and deployment.

Skills

C/C++ development

Embedded software

Python

CI/CD

DO-178 development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Tools

Python

CI/CD

Job description

Reliable Robotics is seeking a Sr. Embedded Software Engineer to join the Embedded Systems team in Mountain View, CA.

You will develop low‑level flight software and firmware for the autonomy stack, including bare‑metal init, networking, protocol drivers, memory interfaces, and Python‑based test automation. Responsibilities include C/C++ requirements, design, code, unit tests, and CI infrastructure; contribute to DO‑178‑compliant development practices.