# Firmware Engineer, Space Embedded Systems

**Company**: Anduril
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $166,000-$220,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril's Space team is dedicated to expanding AI-powered capabilities into space, enhancing Space Domain Awareness, Space Control, and Command and Control for U.S. military and allied partners.

As a Firmware Engineer on Space, you will build and deploy solutions supporting specific customer missions for on-orbit spacecraft operations and mission management. You will contribute to low-level firmware development for systems operating on on-orbit spacecraft, developing modular capabilities to support DoD and IC customers across the space domain.

## Responsibilities

- Develop low-level firmware/software for microcontrollers, create reusable device drivers, integrate system-level features, and architect changes to support an ever-growing codebase.

- Own complex firmware features of an embedded system.

- Quickly debug and troubleshoot issues spanning electrical, firmware, and software boundaries.

- Help select microcontrollers and peripherals, review schematics with the electrical engineering team.

- Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality.

- Concurrently manage involvement in multiple projects at various stages.

## Requirements

- Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Computer Engineering.

- Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and detailed requirements.

- Capable of solving complex technical problems with little oversight.

- Clear communication and organisational skills, including documentation and training material.

- 5+ years of experience in firmware/embedded software development, with a focus on embedded systems.

- Strong C coding ability for embedded systems.

- Experience integrating microcontrollers with analog and digital sensors.

- Experience developing firmware in bare-metal or RTOS environments.

- Debugging skills with JTAG, SWD, Oscilloscopes, and Logic analysers.

- Solid understanding and application of coding best practices, board bring-up, and debugging.

- Experience with common bus protocols such as USB, SPI, I2C, CAN, RS232, RS485, Ethernet, etc.

- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Advanced expertise with C/C++.

- Experience working with a variety of programming languages such as C, C++, Rust, Python.

- Experience with multiple microcontroller cores (ARM, AVR, MSP430, PIC, etc.).

- Experience with satellite mission autonomy, including fault isolation and recovery systems.

- Desire to work on critical software in the space domain.

- Bias for action and natural curiosity about technologies and tools.

## Benefits

Anduril offers a comprehensive, competitive benefits package, including top-tier benefits for full-time employees.

## Skills

### Required
- firmware development
- embedded software development
- C coding
- microcontroller integration
- debugging
- RTOS environments
- coding best practices

### Nice to have
- C/C++
- Python
- Rust
- satellite mission autonomy
- fault isolation and recovery systems

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