Senior Embedded Systems Engineer — OTA & Fleet Telemetry

GCS Recruitment; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment is seeking a hands-on senior software engineer for the platform/middleware layer focused on cabin network management, OTA updates, and device-to-cloud telemetry. You will design, build, integrate, and ship core modules in collaboration with avionics, enterprise networking, cloud and embedded teams.

You will work with Linux-based C/C++ and Python, Docker and Kubernetes, and contribute to architecture decisions, testing, and security considerations.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software development experience, with several years leading design or architecture of production systems.
• Strong Linux-based software development on real devices - C/C++ and/or Python.
• Solid networking fundamentals: VLANs, routing, QoS / traffic prioritization, and network troubleshooting.
• Experience with device-to-cloud systems: telemetry, health monitoring, or fleet/device management.
• Experience building or operating software update pipelines (OTA/firmware: signing, staged rollout, rollback).
• Containers (Docker; Kubernetes a plus) and modern CI/testing practices.
• Comfort with ambiguity and autonomy - an early-stage program where strong engineering judgment and clear documentation matter as much as implementation skill.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core platform modules - cabin network management (VLAN-based traffic segmentation and prioritization across passenger, crew, and airline operational services), connectivity monitoring, and observability.
• Build and maintain the over-the-air (OTA) software lifecycle pipeline: cryptographically validated updates, staged activation, automatic rollback, and version reporting to ground-side fleet systems.
• Develop telemetry and health-monitoring infrastructure, including the device-to-cloud data pipeline for fleet monitoring.
• Integrate software across multiple cabin hardware platforms, maintaining hardware abstraction layers for portability.
• Build and execute unit, integration, requirements-based, and hardware-in-the-loop tests.
• Contribute to interface definitions and architecture decision records, and raise the bar through code reviews and design feedback.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Linux

Networking

OTA/firmware pipelines

Containers (Docker/Kubernetes)

CI/Testing practices

Architecture/Design leadership

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

GCS Recruitment is seeking a hands-on senior software engineer for the platform/middleware layer focused on cabin network management, OTA updates, and device-to-cloud telemetry. You will design, build, integrate, and ship core modules in collaboration with avionics, enterprise networking, cloud and embedded teams.

You will work with Linux-based C/C++ and Python, Docker and Kubernetes, and contribute to architecture decisions, testing, and security considerations.