Senior Real-Time Embedded Software Engineer

53 Stations; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Antares is seeking a Senior or Staff Embedded Software Engineer to own the real‑time software that operates and tests our first‑of‑a‑kind microreactor hardware. You will translate sensor data, timing requirements, and diagnostics into reliable embedded behavior across the full lifecycle.

You will partner with firmware, hardware, controls, and safety teams, writing production C/C++, integrating hardware‑facing components, and guiding system‑level debugging and verification efforts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience with microcontrollers, bare-metal systems, an RTOS, or similarly constrained real‑time platforms.
• Experience designing embedded software components and interfaces, with understanding of interrupts, scheduling, concurrency, and timing constraints.

Responsibilities

• Own the full lifecycle of real-time embedded software projects for reactor and test hardware, defining the technical approach and verification strategy.
• Define software requirements and translate system needs into architecture and testable behavior.
• Partition functionality among hardware-facing components, communication services, interrupts, real‑time tasks, state machines, and application logic.
• Integrate embedded software with custom electronics, hardware interfaces, and control algorithms.
• Analyze failure modes and implement fault handling and recovery behavior.
• Support hardware integration, qualification, and reactor test campaigns with cross‑disciplinary debugging.
• Develop and review software designs, interfaces, test plans, verification procedures, and release documentation.
• Lead design and code reviews, establish embedded software best practices, and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Microcontrollers RTOS

Embedded software architecture

Interrupts scheduling

SPI I2C UART CAN Ethernet RS-485

Debugging with logs traces

Hardware software integration

Unit integration testing

Cross-functional communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Job description

Antares is seeking a Senior or Staff Embedded Software Engineer to own the real‑time software that operates and tests our first‑of‑a‑kind microreactor hardware. You will translate sensor data, timing requirements, and diagnostics into reliable embedded behavior across the full lifecycle.

You will partner with firmware, hardware, controls, and safety teams, writing production C/C++, integrating hardware‑facing components, and guiding system‑level debugging and verification efforts.