Senior Firmware Engineer

About the role

Be one of the Bedo 100 Albedo is making Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) mainstream, building the infrastructure to usher every satellite mission set into this new orbital domain. We build buses, integrated satellites, and turnkey missions for customers to thrive in VLEO, between 250 km - 400 km, where proximity compounds performance and drag self-cleans debris.

Responsibilities

• Develop bare-metal firmware in C/C++ for MCU-based avionics systems.
• Own MCU boot flows, startup behavior, interrupt handlers, and register-level peripheral drivers.
• Bring up new hardware and debug board-level issues using schematics, datasheets, scopes, multimeters, logic analyzers, and debuggers.
• Implement and validate communication protocols including UART, SPI, I²C, CAN, USB, Ethernet, and related interfaces.
• Partner with flight software and controls teams to define deterministic FW↔FSW interfaces for real-time systems.
• Build test hooks, automation, and documentation that make firmware easier to validate and integrate.
• Support spacecraft integration and test campaigns.

Requirements

• 5–10 years of firmware engineering experience in embedded or real-time systems.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Strong C and C++ skills for memory-constrained and performance-sensitive systems.
• Bare-metal firmware experience on microcontrollers.
• Experience with registers, boot flows, interrupts, peripheral drivers, and low-level debugging.
• Experience with mainstream MCU families.
• Comfortable reading schematics and reasoning about signal paths, power rails, timing, and interface behavior.
• Hands-on bench experience with oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers, and debug probes.
• Experience working with FPGA/gateware teams or register-level memory maps.
• Experience defining and debugging HW↔SW or FW↔FSW interfaces.

Qualifications

• Strong plus: Motor control and field-oriented control for brushless or CMG-class motors.
• Real-time control-loop firmware and FW↔FSW protocol design.
• New-hardware bring-up and board-level debug for avionics or high-reliability systems.
• Rust.
• Python for test automation.
• RTOS exposure.
• Experience using AI tools in daily engineering work, including LLM assistants for code, review, debugging, documentation, and design.

Skills

• Albedo uses Claude Code extensively.

Benefits

• Employee friendly equity compensation
• 4% direct matching 401k
• Health Insurance: 100% employee coverage & 75% dependent coverage
• Parental leave and childcare coverage
• Flexible vacation and sick time from day one
• 12 company holidays
• $100 monthly wellness benefit
• Relocation package if not based in Denver

Pay

Salary Range $130,372 - $160,038 per year

Schedule

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