Specialist, Embedded Software Engineer - (Aerospace Flight) : Sign-on bonus ($15K Max)

Job Description

L3Harris Space and Mission Systems is seeking an Embedded Software Engineer for our Wilmington, MA location to join a team of experts developing Embedded Flight Software for space-based imaging payloads. This role requires an experienced Embedded Software Engineer to support the design, implementation, and optimization of real-time embedded control software for high-performance systems. This role focuses on bare-metal C programming, development of complex servo control functionality, and close collaboration with control algorithm engineers to translate advanced concepts into reliable embedded implementations.

Essential Functions

• Design, develop, test, and maintain real-time embedded software in C for bare-metal hardware platforms, with an emphasis on deterministic behavior, performance, and reliability.
• Implement and optimize complex servo control algorithms operating at update rates up to 1 kHz, ensuring precise timing, stability, and responsiveness.
• Integrate control algorithms with low-level hardware interfaces, including processors, peripherals, and communication paths, to support closed-loop system performance.
• Partner closely with the algorithm development team to evaluate system behavior, review collected data artifacts and refine control implementations based on empirical results.
• Analyze test data, debug real-time performance issues, and support iterative improvements to servo loop behavior, latency, and robustness.
• Participate in system bring-up, troubleshooting, and validation activities for embedded hardware and software in lab and prototype environments.
• Contribute to software architecture, code reviews, and best practices for embedded development, with attention to maintainability and verification.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.
• Ability to obtain a TS/SCI security clearance.
• Professional experience with embedded development on aerospace systems using C/C++.
• Professional experience programming bare-metal embedded systems without reliance on a full operating system.
• Professional experience working with timing constraints, interrupt-driven design, memory-mapped I/O, and performance optimization in resource-constrained environments.
• Experience utilizing DevOps practices, Jenkins, and continuous integration tools.

Preferred Additional Skills

• Active Top Secret or TS/SCI clearance is highly preferred
• Expertise in full spaced-based System lifecycle including requirements flow down and allocation, design, development, test, and sell-off.
• Experience in embedded flight software development, system design, debugging, and integration of flight-like hardware.
• Experience implementing or supporting servo control algorithms in embedded environments.
• Exposure to FPGA-adjacent or soft-core processor environments such as MicroBlaze.
• Familiarity with data collection, signal analysis, and debugging tools used to evaluate real-time embedded system performance.
• Experience in Command & Control Software, Sensor Processing Systems, and Optical Systems/telescopes.
• Knowledge of microprocessor/microcontroller architecture and programming, and familiarity with FPGAs.
• Familiarity with real-time control systems, servo loops, or other closed-loop embedded applications.
• Knowledge of MBSE tools (e.g., Cameo) and wideband/narrowband telemetry and messaging.
• Working knowledge of image processors, visible cameras, IR detectors, servo motors, actuators and focus mechanisms.

Benefits

• Health and disability insurance
• 401(k) match
• Flexible spending accounts
• EAP
• Education assistance
• Paid time off
• Company-paid holidays