About the Company:

We are a stealth-mode Aerospace & Defense startup headquartered in El Segundo, CA. Our founding team hails from SpaceX, Anduril, and Lockheed Martin, and we are backed by Joint Staff-level military leadership and several Silicon Valley firms. With a world-class business development & leadership team already in place, we are well positioned to capitalize on already overwhelming demand

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Job Overview

: We’re seeking a Lead Flight Software Engineer to drive the architecture, development, and deployment of the embedded flight software stack for our first life saving system. You’ll be responsible for building a safe, secure, and performant flight software platform. As a founding engineering leader, you’ll shape not just the product, but the engineering culture, processes, and technical trajectory of the compan

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Key Responsibiliti

• es:Architect and implement real-time embedded flight software for guidance, navigation, and control syst
• emsOwn the full software lifecycle: requirements, architecture, implementation, verification, deployment, and field t
• estInterface with hardware, GNC, autonomy, and test teams to integrate firmware and flight software into a mission-ready st
• ackLead code reviews, system simulations, and HITL test
• ingDevelop fault-tolerant architectures and hardware abstraction layers that support rapid iteration without compromising saf
• etyGuide build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and dev environments for embedded developm
• entMentor junior engineers and help scale the software t

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Basic Qualificati

• ons:
  Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or re
• lated8+ years of experience writing real-time embedded software in
• C/C++Experience leading development of flight software for aerospace, defense, or autonomous sy
• stemsStrong understanding of RTOS concepts, state machines, sensor/actuator interfaces (SPI, I2C, UART, CAN), and control
• loopsExperience debugging on real hardware using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG/SWD

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Preferred Qualifica

• tions:
  Master’s degree or higher in a relevant engineering dis
• ciplineFamiliarity with GNC algorithms, simulation, and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HITL)
• testingFamiliarity with Rust or Python for testing and tooling is
• a plusExperience with embedded Linux and NVIDIA Jetpac
• k LinuxExperience with NixOS for reproducible image dep

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