Top Embedded Software Engineer Jobs in Austin, TX

Design, develop, validate, integrate, test, and debug embedded software for safety-critical avionics systems. Translate customer and system requirements into technical solutions, collaborate with systems and hardware engineers, follow software lifecycle and coding standards, conduct code reviews, maintain configuration control, produce engineering documentation, and improve legacy code. Work within an integrated product team while ensuring compliance with avionics safety standards including DO-178C.

Designs, develops, integrates, and tests embedded software for avionics, flight controls, vehicle power, autonomous systems, and defense electronics. Responsibilities span the full software lifecycle, including requirements, architecture, implementation, hardware integration, debugging, and verification. The engineer works with embedded processors and bare-metal or real-time operating systems, collaborates across engineering teams, interfaces with customers, and may mentor teammates or lead technical design activities.

Develop and maintain embedded vehicle control and data planes for cloud-connected ECU fleets. Responsibilities include configuration delivery, vehicle data collection, distributed coordination, cloud integration, observability, reliability optimization, remote diagnostics, production support, open-source contributions, technical leadership, and mentoring. The role requires expertise in C/C++, Linux, Android, QNX, distributed systems, vehicle protocols, AUTOSAR, and fleet management.

The Embedded Software Engineer will develop, integrate, and validate safety-critical software for avionics systems, ensuring compliance with security processes and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Design, develop, and validate safety-critical avionics embedded software per DO-178C. Collaborate with systems and hardware engineers for SW/HW integration, perform testing, debugging, code reviews, and produce engineering documentation. Implement software development best practices and may reverse-engineer code to address issues and improve maintainability.

Develop and maintain Linux kernel drivers and embedded Linux distributions for NVIDIA Jetson platforms. Integrate and optimize custom PCIe, FPGA, Ethernet, USB, and MIPI camera hardware. Debug low-level system issues, profile performance for real-time applications, collaborate with hardware and vision teams, and produce documentation for drivers and hardware interfaces.

Develop embedded software for vehicle software-update functions using C/C++ in various environments. Collaborate with teams, perform testing, and resolve issues to enhance vehicle software.

Develop and port embedded Linux applications, device drivers, libraries, kernels, bootloaders, and software images. Maintain Yocto-based Linux builds and CI/CD pipelines, create tailored embedded distributions, and support board bring-up and system integration. Collaborate with hardware, systems, firmware, and FPGA engineers throughout the software lifecycle, including testing, qualification, documentation, proposals, and in-orbit support.

Serve as the technical authority for embedded software engineering, defining architectures and methodologies across multiple products. Design, implement, test, debug, document, integrate, and validate embedded systems from requirements through production. Collaborate with hardware, electrical, systems, quality, and test teams; review designs and code; optimize performance; assess third-party software; and provide post-production and in-orbit customer support.

Develop and port embedded Linux applications, device drivers, libraries, kernel customizations, bootloaders, and Yocto-based software images. Contribute across the software lifecycle, including architecture, implementation, testing, qualification, system bring-up, and in-orbit support. Collaborate with hardware, systems, firmware, and FPGA engineers on embedded platforms for satellites and airborne systems. Participate in design reviews and customer-facing technical documentation.

As an Embedded Software Engineer, you will develop firmware for brain-computer interfaces, collaborating cross-functionally on safety-critical embedded systems and delivering manufacturable solutions.

Owns firmware and host software for field-deployed edge devices powering an AI voice drive-thru system. Responsibilities include developing microcontroller firmware, managing real-time full-duplex audio pipelines, designing serial communication and health monitoring, debugging hardware/software integrations, enabling fleet deployment and remote management, and implementing reliable recovery and over-the-air updates.

Design and implement embedded software systems for semiconductor fabrication tools, developing firmware and real-time Linux applications while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Develop firmware for real-time control of semiconductor processing tools; collaborate with engineers on requirements and control implementation; utilize skills in embedded software development.

As a Firmware Engineer, you will design and implement reliable firmware for energy systems, ensuring high-quality, deterministic software development.

Develop, integrate, and test high-quality embedded C/C++ avionics software for X-BAT UAVs, interfacing with sensors, firmware, autonomy systems, and GCS; design CI/HIL test systems, produce documentation, and collaborate across cross-functional teams.

Develop and improve embedded graphics and compute drivers, customize products for embedded hardware and real-time operating systems, and profile and optimize drivers and applications. Write and review technical specifications while collaborating on reliable, high-quality safety-critical solutions. The role requires embedded software development, debugging, troubleshooting, and familiarity with graphics APIs, ARINC 653, and safety-critical development practices.

Lead design, implementation, integration, and delivery of vehicle-side OTA embedded software using C++. Define and decompose system requirements, drive architecture and defect resolution, support integration and validation, troubleshoot vehicle integration issues, and mentor team members while promoting engineering best practices.

This position involves developing firmware for implantable systems, collaborating with engineers, and contributing to system improvements. Responsibilities include working with embedded systems and hardware understanding.

Lead comprehensive testing for embedded firmware and software across pre-silicon and post-silicon development. Design black-box, white-box, stress, integration, regression, and system test strategies; develop automated test frameworks and hardware-in-the-loop infrastructure; debug and triage defects with cross-functional hardware, firmware, software, and systems teams; analyze and present coverage, risks, and test results. The role also requires technical leadership, requirements-based test-case development, and system reliability validation.

The Embedded Software Engineer will analyze and develop embedded software systems, provide customer support, and apply software engineering and cybersecurity methods.

Design, build, and scale embedded connectivity and security for distributed energy devices. Implement networking (Ethernet/Wi‑Fi/Thread/Zigbee/BLE), secure provisioning, OTA firmware pipelines, telemetry, and diagnostics. Support testing, certification, manufacturing validation, and cross-functional collaboration from prototype to deployment.

Develop and maintain PX4 autopilot firmware for UAVs, integrating sensors and payloads, and managing testing environments. Collaborate on flight operations and system integration.

As an Embedded Software Engineer, you will design and implement software for unmanned aircraft systems, debug issues, collaborate with engineering teams, and maintain high software quality standards.

Designs, develops, tests, debugs, documents, and supports embedded software for aerospace and space systems. Responsibilities span microcontrollers, Linux-based computers, drivers, board support packages, applications, interfaces, and user interfaces. The role includes hardware integration, code and design reviews, qualification, performance optimization, third-party software assessment, customer support, design presentations, and proposal contributions.