Embedded Software Engineer

About the Role

Are you looking for an opportunity to combine your technical skills with big picture thinking to make an impact on national defense? You understand your client’s environment and how to develop the right systems to support their mission. Your ability to translate real-world needs into reliable embedded software makes you a key contributor to delivering client-focused engineering solutions.

As an experienced embedded systems and software engineer, you will help solve complex challenges that drive the development of next-generation satellite systems. You will take on a hands-on role in designing, implementing, and testing embedded software architectures that interface directly with FPGA-based processing pipelines and spacecraft subsystems. You’ll enhance these systems through advanced technology solutions that meet demanding space and mission requirements. You’ll apply your expertise while providing guidance to a cross-domain hardware–software team focused on digital design, verification, and system integration.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with FPGA engineers, RF engineers, and systems engineers to ensure seamless interaction between embedded software components and onboard electronics. Through this work, you will help translate system-level requirements into robust, real-time software implementations that enable reliable on-orbit performance.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and test embedded software architectures for satellite systems.
• Interface embedded software with FPGA-based processing pipelines and spacecraft subsystems.
• Collaborate with FPGA, RF, and systems engineers to ensure seamless software-hardware integration.
• Translate system-level requirements into real-time, high-reliability software implementations.
• Provide guidance to cross-domain hardware-software teams on digital design, verification, and system integration.
• Apply advanced technology solutions to meet space and mission requirements.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience developing embedded software in C or C++.
• Experience with embedded Linux, RTOS development, or bare-metal firmware.
• Experience designing software for real-time systems or high-reliability applications.
• Experience integrating software with custom digital hardware such as FPGA-based systems.
• Experience with software-hardware debugging using tools such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, or protocol analyzers.
• Experience with configuration management, automated testing, CI/CD, and automated build systems.
• Experience with software architecture design, communication interfaces (SPI, I2C, UART, or LVDS), and hardware abstraction layers.
• Experience using scientific or analysis tools such as MATLAB or Python for algorithm development or data evaluation.
• Active Secret clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with cross-functional teams and remote team members.
• Experience with space-qualified embedded systems or satellite subsystem design.
• Experience with Yocto, BitBake, U-Boot, or device tree development.
• Experience with embedded cybersecurity, secure boot, or trusted execution environments.
• Experience with DSP algorithms and real-time signal processing software.
• Experience with software simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, or digital twin environments.
• Experience with MBSE and MBSE tools such as MagicDraw.
• Knowledge of radiation-tolerant computing techniques or system hardening approaches.
• Knowledge of RF systems, telemetry or command subsystems, or spacecraft communication protocols.

Benefits

• Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
• Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
• Recognition awards program for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of company values.

Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits.

Pay

The projected compensation range for this position is $99,000.00 to $225,000.00 (annualized USD). Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, experience, contract-specific affordability, and organizational requirements.

Schedule

This posting will close within 90 days from the posting date.

Work model expectations:

• Remote: Primarily remote, with occasional in-person work at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Hybrid: Frequent work from a Booz Allen facility, with potential visits to customer facilities as needed.
• Onsite: Work primarily performed at a Booz Allen office or customer facility, with direct collaboration required.

Employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings to support engagement and effective communication.