Senior Embedded Systems Engineer - Real-Time

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc.; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life/ADD & Short/Long Term Disability

401(k) Savings Plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Paid Time-Off (PTO)

Holidays

Education Reimbursement

Job summary

Kratos Defense Rocket Support Services seeks a senior embedded systems engineer to design, develop, integrate, and validate advanced embedded software and hardware for mission-critical applications. You will work across processor families, RTOS, and Linux-based environments, coordinating with cross-functional teams through the full product lifecycle.

Responsibilities include architecture design, device drivers, sensor integration, and system-level verification, with some travel for testing and

Qualifications

• Extensive embedded software development experience in C, C++, and related languages.
• Experience with real-time operating systems, firmware development, and low-level hardware interaction.
• Strong background with microcontrollers, DSPs, and embedded processor architectures.
• Experience developing and integrating communication interfaces and protocols (UART, SPI, I2C, Ethernet).
• Demonstrated capability in sensor integration, signal acquisition, and system-level control logic.
• Knowledge of FPGA interaction, hardware abstraction, and mixed hardware/software environments.
• Experience with build systems, configuration management, debug tools, and code versioning.
• Ability to create detailed technical documentation, design artifacts, and verification plans.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and system-level thinking skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary engineering teams and interface with customers or program leadership.

Responsibilities

• Develop embedded software architectures, firmware, and real-time control logic for sensor-driven and mission-critical systems across multiple processing platforms.
• Design, implement, and debug device drivers, communication protocols, and interfaces including serial, CAN, Ethernet, SPI, I2C, and RF transceivers.
• Integrate embedded applications with hardware components such as microcontrollers, DSPs, FPGAs, sensors, actuators, and power systems.
• Develop and maintain real-time software using bare-metal, RTOS-based, or Linux-based environments.
• Implement state machines, control loops, data acquisition modules, and system-level embedded behaviors.
• Support system-level integration including hardware bring-up, interface verification, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Develop tools, scripts, and build systems to support firmware deployment, cross-compilation, and multi-target development.
• Perform analysis, simulation, and testing to ensure software robustness, timing performance, and reliability under diverse environments.

Skills

Embedded C/C++

RTOS

Device drivers

Sensor integration

Hardware-software integration

Technical documentation

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Embedded Systems

Job description

Kratos Defense Rocket Support Services seeks a senior embedded systems engineer to design, develop, integrate, and validate advanced embedded software and hardware for mission-critical applications. You will work across processor families, RTOS, and Linux-based environments, coordinating with cross-functional teams through the full product lifecycle.

Responsibilities include architecture design, device drivers, sensor integration, and system-level verification, with some travel for testing and