Top Remote Embedded Software Engineer Jobs

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.

Sets enterprise technical direction for embedded software engineering platforms supporting software-defined vehicles. Defines multi-year architecture, standards, governance, quality gates, build and test modernization, CI/CD strategy, and platform roadmaps. Resolves cross-domain technical risks, advises senior leadership, drives adoption across organizations and suppliers, establishes measurable engineering improvements, and mentors senior technical leaders. The role may specialize in virtualization and CI infrastructure, quality gating, test-system modernization, or build-system modernization.

Leads architecture, roadmaps, and implementation of embedded software engineering platforms spanning build, test, integration, validation, release, virtualization, and CI/CD. Drives multi-team technical initiatives, establishes reusable standards and quality gates, improves reliability and developer productivity through engineering data, and partners across software, cloud, cybersecurity, validation, quality, and supplier organizations. The role requires hands-on technical leadership in embedded, real-time, safety-critical, or mission-critical software environments.

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

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.

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.

The Senior Embedded Security Engineer will enhance the security of the flight software for space vehicles, ensuring high standards for safety and secure coding practices throughout the development lifecycle.

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.

Develop and test embedded software for autonomous rail vehicles using bare-metal and RTOS-based systems. Implement communication protocols, state machines, and command/control functions primarily in Rust. Integrate and debug hardware-software interfaces, write unit and integration tests on hardware test stands, and contribute to code reviews, documentation, and engineering improvements.

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.

The role involves software architecture, design, development, and testing for embedded systems in defense applications, requiring collaboration with cross-disciplinary engineering teams.

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.

The role involves testing embedded systems software and desktop applications, defining testing strategies, developing protocols, and ensuring quality adherence in regulated environments.

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.

Design, implement, and test embedded software for DSP boards including BSPs, device drivers, firmware (BIOS/U-Boot). Analyze requirements, develop test software/procedures, create documentation, participate in architecture/design/code reviews, coordinate and validate software releases, and evaluate new technologies.

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.

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.

Design, develop, and optimize platform-level embedded software and reusable frameworks for telecom products (including 5G). Collaborate across systems teams, perform architecture and code reviews, support integrations with customers/partners, and mentor engineers while ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability on heterogeneous processors.

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.