Part-time remote work for hands-on embedded, FPGA/RTL, flight software and hardware test engineers. You review real hardware-connected designs and code, find the failure modes others miss, and write rigorous engineering problems and test cases. Your bench experience is the point here, not theory.
What you will do
- Review and judge embedded firmware, FPGA/RTL designs, flight software, test automation frameworks and hardware interfaces.
- Analyze trade-offs in real-time performance, timing, memory, compute, reliability, fault handling, concurrency and hardware/software integration.
- Spot implementation errors, wrong assumptions, race conditions, timing issues, interface failures and resource limits.
- Write or review engineering problems, reference implementations, test cases, evaluation criteria and technical documentation.
- Give clear technical feedback based on real production hardware constraints.
What you need
- 5+ years of professional software, firmware, FPGA or embedded engineering, with at least 3 recent years of hands-on work on real hardware, not only program or people management.
- Experience as the responsible engineer for production hardware-connected software or firmware, across requirements, architecture, implementation, bring-up, verification and deployment.
- Deep expertise in at least one area: embedded firmware and real-time systems, FPGA/RTL design and verification, flight software and safety-critical systems, or hardware test automation and HIL.
- Strong command of relevant tools for your specialty, such as C/C++, Python, RTOS or bare-metal, device drivers, bootloaders, embedded Linux, SPI/I2C/UART/CAN/Ethernet, Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL and FPGA toolchains.
- Hands-on debugging of software-hardware interaction with JTAG/SWD debuggers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, simulators or HIL/SIL setups.
- Experience in real product or hardware manufacturing settings, ideally aerospace and defense, space, automotive and EV, semiconductors, consumer electronics, robotics, industrial, energy or medical devices.
Experience at a company that designs, builds and manufactures physical hardware or embedded systems is strongly preferred.
How pay works
This job is paid by the hour at a listed rate of $100-120/hr.
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