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Senior Embedded Engineer, AFSS

Eleven Recruiting


Job Location:

Long Beach, NY - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 165000 - 211000
Posted: 8 September 2026 (11 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 6 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Eleven Recruiting is seeking aSenior Embedded Engineer AFSS for one of our largest aerospace manufacturing clients located in Long Beach CA.

Responsibilities:

  • Write concise documentation such as Concept of Operations Interface Control Documents and Software Design Documents.
  • Work closely with internal Software and Hardware certification teams as well as external regulators and IV&V contractors to consistently deliver flight safety software and test artifacts for review.
  • Take extreme ownership in ensuring companys AFSS gets certified in time for first flight.
  • Develop safety critical software for AFSS including bootloaders command and telemetry services device drivers software state machines and handling of flight termination events.
  • Integrate best practices tools and lessons-learned between safety and non-safety critical embedded software teams ensuring both teams are able to support vehicle software projects throughout the project development lifecycle.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelors in computer science or related technical field.
  • 3 years relevant experience in software development.
  • Proficient in C/C
  • Experience with software development processes including source control bug tracking and design documentation.
  • Experience capturing decomposing and deriving formal software requirements from system level requirements.
  • Demonstrated experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Masters in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • 5 years of experience in software development.
  • Experience with verification and validation of safety critical software.
  • Prior work on a launch vehicle.
  • Experience in software safety standards such as RCC-319 DO-178 ISO 26262 or exposure to MISRA C/C.
  • Experience with Embedded Linux VxWorks FreeRTOS and writing device drivers for embedded focused operating systems.

Required Experience:

Senior IC