Top Remote Embedded Software Engineer Jobs

Owns the design, development, testing, and optimization of safety-critical vehicle firmware on resource-constrained platforms. Responsibilities include RTOS applications, communication architectures, bootloaders, device drivers, board and SoC bring-up, automated testing, debugging, and production deployment. The role leads cross-functional projects, mentors engineers, conducts code reviews, and establishes embedded engineering standards for reliable autonomous transit vehicles.

Own embedded software across microcontrollers, RTOS environments, embedded Linux, and robot runtime components. Design firmware, drivers, real-time services, communications, diagnostics, calibration, recovery, and hardware interfaces. Bring up electronics, measure system performance, investigate integrated-machine failures, and build simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, fault-injection, and regression testing. Ensure software is observable, recoverable, version-compatible, and reliable under degraded conditions.

Design and implement performance-critical software features for Cisco Phone and Room collaboration devices. Develop embedded and network-device applications using C and C++, with Python or Java for scripting, automation, application development, and integration. Build production-ready CI/CD pipelines, write automation tests, collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams, and support scalable software used by global customers.

Designs, develops, tests, and maintains embedded flight software for satellite imaging payload and ADCS subsystems. Leads software delivery across cross-functional engineering teams, supports requirements development, testing, documentation, analysis, and release processes, and provides technical leadership for mission-critical software. The role requires expertise in C/C++, Python, embedded Linux, and production software development, with opportunities to support additional spacecraft subsystems and mentor team members.

Leads design, development, testing, release, and maintenance of satellite flight software for imaging payload and ADCS subsystems. Provides technical expertise, supports requirements and test planning, performs root-cause analysis, and collaborates with systems, embedded, operations, and mission teams. The role requires hands-on C/C++, Python, embedded Linux, cross-functional leadership, and delivery of reliable mission-critical software with minimal supervision.

Lead the end-to-end architecture and development of safety-critical embedded device software for energy products. Responsibilities include metering, real-time control, communications, hardware-software co-design, secure firmware updates, certification, CI/CD, testing, and production scaling. The role combines hands-on firmware development in C, C++, or Rust with technical leadership, workstream delegation, code review, and collaboration across electrical engineering and external certification organizations.

Lead the architecture, development, validation, and maintenance of safety-critical embedded firmware for autonomous trucking systems. Design real-time software interfacing with sensors, actuators, compute platforms, and vehicle hardware. Provide technical leadership, mentoring, code reviews, task coordination, safety compliance, fault handling, and support for vehicle testing and field deployments. Develop HAL and BSP components, diagnose embedded issues, and help take products through production and customer-supported operation.

Develop and test safety- and security-critical embedded software for programmable logic controllers. Responsibilities include software design, implementation, debugging, automated testing, requirements traceability, lifecycle management, and continuous integration. The role supports real-time and Linux environments, Agile planning, industrial protocols, and safety standards. It also involves implementing controller features, improving development tools and practices, providing technical guidance, and mentoring less experienced engineers.

The role involves developing and supporting virtualization technology for testing embedded systems, integrating test environments, and enhancing test processes.

Design and implement high-performance, 3GPP-compliant 5G Core control- and user-plane functions on ARM-based embedded Linux. Develop in C/Go/Rust, use DPDK for packet processing, optimize latency/throughput, debug protocol and performance issues, and collaborate cross-functionally to integrate carrier-grade systems.

Develop and optimize low-level embedded software and firmware for wireless communication systems. Integrate WiFi and 5G/LTE modules, support board bring-up, and validate hardware-software interactions. Optimize CPU, DSP, FPGA, and power performance; implement secure boot and OTA firmware updates; debug complex subsystem interactions; and collaborate with hardware and cross-functional teams. Maintain technical documentation and participate in code reviews.

Designs, develops, tests, and maintains robotics middleware and application frameworks in modern C++ on embedded Linux. Owns platform components through deployment and fleet operation, improves reliability and performance, diagnoses complex concurrency and systems issues, and translates safety requirements into software behavior and verification. Collaborates across autonomy, systems, hardware, and software teams while leading technical reviews and mentoring engineers.

Lead the architecture, development, integration, debugging, and testing of complex real-time embedded software for defense and aerospace products. Responsibilities include bootloaders, device drivers, applications, test software, requirements and design documentation, customer issue resolution, bids and proposals, and cross-functional collaboration with systems and hardware teams. The role requires compliance with military and aerospace standards and ownership of advanced technical issues.

Design, develop, debug, and maintain high-performance networking software using C/C++ and Python. Work across L2-L7 protocols, Linux system and socket programming, multithreading, packet analysis, and virtualized networking environments. Configure and troubleshoot VMs, bridges, TAP/TUN interfaces, VLANs, and virtual switches. Collaborate with architecture, QA, DevOps, and engineering teams on design, testing, deployment, documentation, and code reviews. Mentor junior engineers and optimize production-quality software.

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.

Build and improve Flipturn’s embedded Linux controller for EV charging and energy management. Responsibilities include integrating chargers, batteries, generators, meters, and utility programs; upgrading Yocto-based systems, bootloaders, and board bring-up; and delivering firmware and full-stack features. The role also involves customer feedback, product vision, end-to-end delivery, and contributing to engineering team culture.

Provide technical leadership for embedded camera platforms, owning system architecture, on-device software, encoding, storage, streaming, and edge analytics. Lead JDM partner integration, cross-functional alignment, mentorship, architecture/code reviews, and adoption of AI-driven development tools to deliver robust edge devices.

Develop software and systems for embedded platforms at Aquabyte, focusing on sensor interfaces, network reliability, and hardware diagnostics while collaborating with research teams on machine learning models.

Develop embedded software in C/C++ for micro-controllers and Linux/Android systems, focusing on hardware security for IoT devices. Involve in design, development, and testing of supporting libraries.

Designs, develops, integrates, tests, and maintains production embedded Linux software for vehicle systems. Responsibilities include modern C/C++ and Qt/QML development, Yocto platform maintenance, Python automation, CI/CD, automated testing, debugging across hardware and software boundaries, release management, architecture, documentation, and production support. The role also provides technical leadership and mentorship while collaborating with multidisciplinary engineering, manufacturing, cybersecurity, and supplier teams.

Develop embedded software in C/C++ for micro-controller and Linux/Android systems, integrating hardware security into IoT devices. Involvement in design, development, and testing stages.

Architect, develop, integrate, test, debug, and optimize embedded software for diverse hardware platforms using RTOS, bare-metal, Zephyr, and Linux environments. Lead software architecture, system validation, test automation, and multi-threaded application development while collaborating with hardware and software teams. Define test strategies, analyze defects, document designs, conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, optimize performance and power usage, and contribute to open-source projects.

Lead ownership of Dapster's robotic system, writing code for sensors and interfaces, integrating devices, and contributing to foundational technology.

Develop embedded software for micro-controllers and IoT devices. Collaborate with an engineering team on design, development, and testing of security libraries.

Designs and leads safety-critical embedded firmware for automotive hardware safety and power systems. Responsibilities include architecting safe-state strategies, power sequencing, thermal monitoring, watchdog systems, low-level drivers, diagnostic frameworks, and HALs for ARM-based SoCs. The role requires FreeRTOS or SafeRTOS expertise, ISO 26262 ASIL-B/C knowledge, register-level debugging, hardware-software safety integration, code reviews, failure analysis, and mentoring engineers.