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April 22, 2026
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Embedded Software Engineer

San Diego, CA
Full-time
Onsite
$70K/yr - $126K/yr
Entry, Mid Level
Leidos is a DOD leader in electronic design and chiplet manufacture, seeking an Embedded Software Engineer to perform design, development, and hardware/software integration. The role involves building high-performance software for embedded systems and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to meet customer requirements.
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Responsibilities

  • Contributing to the design and development of advanced embedded systems as a part of multidisciplinary teams. These teams are made up of other software team members and subject matter experts from the areas of systems engineering, hardware, firmware, RF front-end design, and signal processing
  • Developing software for a variety of microarchitectures, including DSP, ARM, or RISC-V
  • Developing software for multi-core embedded systems ranging from bare metal to minimal real-time operating systems to Linux environments
  • Reading and comprehending datasheets to understand expected hardware operation
  • Building and documenting test plans, test procedures, and software requirements specifications
  • Writing low level code (e.g. C) to interface with Control Status Registers (CSRs) and hardware components
  • Writing software to validate hardware performance and operation under nominal and stress conditions
  • Building software using test driven development (TDD) methodologies
  • Documenting software performance results against key performance requirements for data-plane and control-plane processing
  • Understanding software use in high-level system design for real time software in operational systems
  • Clearly communicating technical details of software APIs and test results to internal and external engineers

Qualification

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science, or related discipline and 2 years of experience or a MS with relevant experience
  • Strong software development experience, including experience in C/C++ software development for embedded systems
  • Experience using Integrated Development Environments (e.g. VS Code, Eclipse)
  • Experience with build tools (e.g. GCC, CMake, or Make)
  • Strong understanding of hardware-software interaction and basic computer architecture (e.g. Stack, Heap, Pointers)
  • Experience with version control systems (e.g. Git, Subversion) and continuous integration software tools (e.g. Jenkins)
  • Experience with software testing tools and methodologies
  • Experience in creating and maintaining technical documentation for developed software
  • Ability to communicate and share ideas, concepts, and designs with a team of engineers
  • Understanding of unit test frameworks and test-driven development practices
  • Comfortable working in Linux development environments
  • Demonstrated ability and motivation to continually learn new technical skills and concepts
  • Must have active Secret level security clearance with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI

Preferred

  • Master's Degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
  • Active security clearance higher than the Secret level
  • Experience with other programming languages such as Python, MATLAB, or another OOP language
  • Ability to debug embedded systems using tools like oscilloscopes and logic analyzers
  • Experience developing drivers for hardware interfaces (e.g. GPIO, I2C, SPI, UART, PCIe)
  • Experience with multiple embedded instruction set architectures (e.g. ESP32, Raspberry PI, Arduino, RISCV)
  • Experience using hardware debugging software and tools such as OpenOCD, J-Link, or SEGGER

Benefits

  • 4 or more weeks Paid Time Off
  • 11 paid Holidays
  • 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting
  • Flexible Schedules
  • Discounted Stock Purchase Plans
  • Technical Upskilling
  • Education and Training Support
  • Parental Paid Leave
Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations.
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