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Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer - Niskayuna

USA💼 Full-time💰 $131,700–$219,300🗓 2026-07-12 → 2026-07-27

Core

Design, model, simulate, implement, and fine-tune real-time critical embedded systems for edge computing, controls, and communication in industrial and defense applications.

Role type

Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer

Builds

Field-ready prototypes of real-time embedded systems

Domain

Energy, Defense, Industrial Automation

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

FPGA/SoC design and development, Verilog, VHDL, Xilinx/Altera devices, real-time embedded applications on microcontrollers/FPGAs/x86/ARM, heterogeneous computer architectures, C/C++/C#/Java/Python/MATLAB, Linux driver and kernel development, Linux build systems (Yocto)

Preferred skills

U.S. security clearance, proposal writing for U.S. government agencies, real-time hypervisors (RTS, VxWorks), containers (Docker), real-time operating systems (QNX, RTLinux), embedded system security

Technologies

ARM, C#, Docker, Embedded, FPGA, Hardware Support, Java, Linux, Matlab, Python, Security, Verilog, VHDL, C++

Responsibilities

Move edge computing and embedded systems from lab to field-ready prototypes, collaborate with hardware suppliers and tool providers, partner with U.S. government agencies to develop proposals and lead projects, publish technical papers and file patents

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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