Embedded Software Engineer

Today Advanced Warfare Technology (AWT) is a growing enterprise - protecting the warfighter and our national security against ever-adapting threats. Our AWT division currently has an exciting opportunity for an Embedded Software Engineer to perform design development and hardware / software integration in San Diego CA for the Advanced Warfare Technology Division.

Leidos is a DOD leader in electronic design and chiplet manufacture. Our division primarily focuses on research & development and advanced prototyping transforming state-of-the-art processing algorithms into real-time software systems. Projects involve small multi-disciplinary teams of engineers working together in spiral or agile development environments to meet aggressive customer schedules aimed at near-term field demonstrations. Leidos utilizes its proprietary design methodology for hardware software co-design to manufacture custom SoC and IP for high performance applications.

In this role the Embedded Software Engineer will build high-performance software to meet extreme system requirements. They will be responsible for designing and implementing components to support software development kits that are delivered directly to end users to support quick adoption and ease of use for novel SoC products. This role will require the ability to deeply understand hardware architectures to execute validation and verification testing a crucial step to ensure hardware and software performance meets customer expectations.

Join a team of experts in implementing high-performance signal processing on custom system-on-chip (SoC) hardware and building the tools that enable analysis rapid prototyping and deployment of cutting-edge algorithms.

The successful candidate will be responsible for :

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

At Leidos we value passion for learning. If you believe you have what it takes to succeed in this role and are eager to learn we encourage you to apply.

The successful candidate will have the following basic education / experience :

Bachelors Degree in Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or related discipline

4 years of software development experience including strong 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

Bonus education / experience :

Masters 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

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If youre looking for comfort keep scrolling. At Leidos we outthink outbuild and outpace the status quo because the mission demands it. Were not hiring followers. Were recruiting the ones who disrupt provoke and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. Were already at step 30 and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting : December 8 2025

For U.S. Positions : While subject to change based on business needs Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range :

Pay Range $87100.00 - $157450.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.

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Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Monthly Salary Salary : 87100 - 157450