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Embedded Systems Architect Engineer
@Maxar Technologies Holdings Inc.
[Hiring] Embedded Systems Architect Engineer @Maxar Technologies Holdings Inc.
Mar 26, 2025 - Maxar Technologies Holdings Inc. is hiring a remote Embedded Systems Architect Engineer. 💸 Salary: $98,000 - $164,000 annually. 📍Location: USA.
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Role Description
This role involves leading the design and development of embedded hardware systems, ensuring seamless integration with real-time operating systems and mission-critical frameworks.
- Analyze, select, and integrate hardware components
- Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to deliver reliable, high-performance solutions for aerospace environments
- Review design challenges and refine embedded hardware specifications
- Select critical components and analyze hardware trade-offs
- Evaluate power efficiency, signal integrity, or thermal performance
- Collaborate with vendors to identify reliable hardware options
- Test and validate prototypes, troubleshooting integration challenges
- Document progress and outline next steps for hardware iterations
Qualifications
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- 7+ years of experience in embedded hardware system design, preferably in the aerospace or defense sector
- Strong understanding of system architecture principles for embedded hardware platforms, including space-grade or radiation-tolerant systems
- Familiarity with FPGA programming and low-level driver development
- Knowledge of cybersecurity requirements for embedded systems
- Hands-on experience with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and system-level testing
- Experience with hardware/software integration, including working closely with RTOS frameworks
- Knowledge of aerospace industry standards and certification processes (e.g., DO-254, MIL-STD)
Requirements
- Architect and design embedded hardware systems, ensuring alignment with system requirements and aerospace industry standards
- Define system interfaces and lead hardware/software integration activities
- Perform system-level trade studies and recommend optimal design paths to balance performance, power, size, and cost
- Collaborate with software engineering teams to ensure hardware compatibility with real-time operating systems (RTOS) such as VxWorks, FreeRTOS, or QNX
- Analyze timing and performance requirements, ensuring hardware designs meet the real-time constraints of mission-critical systems
- Evaluate and select processors, FPGAs, memory modules, and other critical components based on system needs and environmental constraints
- Collaborate with suppliers and vendors to source reliable, high-performance hardware components
- Lead hardware design reviews, validation, and verification processes
Benefits
- 401K matching and immediate vesting schedule
- Career growth opportunities
- Family-friendly benefits like maternity and paternity leave, adoption reimbursement, flexible hours, hybrid work options
- Programs to help you grow, like tuition reimbursement, hackathons, and career development
- Student loan repayment
- Generous time off
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision at affordable monthly rates
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$98,000 - $164,000 annually
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Mar 26, 2025
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