Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Flight Safety Autonomy

Reliable Robotics Corporation; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Reliable Robotics Corporation in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Sr. Embedded Software Engineer to join the Embedded Systems team, developing the low-level software and firmware at the heart of the autonomy stack for safe, reliable flight software.

You will design and implement C/C++ flight software per DO-178C, build Python tests, and maintain CI pipelines, with a chance to impact certification and real-world air operations.

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.
• Preferred: 12+ years of professional C/C++ experience.
• Thorough understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and networking.
• Experience in a DO-178 software development environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable with a fast-paced, agile development life cycle.

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 systems

Python

Unit testing

CI/CD

DO-178C

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Job description

Reliable Robotics Corporation in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Sr. Embedded Software Engineer to join the Embedded Systems team, developing the low-level software and firmware at the heart of the autonomy stack for safe, reliable flight software.

You will design and implement C/C++ flight software per DO-178C, build Python tests, and maintain CI pipelines, with a chance to impact certification and real-world air operations.