Castelion · 9 hours ago
Embedded Software Engineer
Castelion is a company focused on innovative defense development and production, aiming to enhance America's and its Allies' capabilities. They are looking for an Embedded Software Engineer to design, implement, and secure software for mission-critical systems while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure reliability and performance.
Responsibilities
Design and implement embedded applications, device drivers, and board support packages in C and Rust
Optimize and parallelize compute-intensive algorithms using CUDA on embedded GPUs
Bring up new boards: bootloaders, secure boot chains, peripheral initialization, and diagnostics
Implement and validate cryptographic protection using TPMs
Integrate sensors, comms links, and high-rate data paths, profile and tune for latency and throughput
Develop automated HW-in-the-loop tests; script board flashing, provisioning, and regression suites
Use JTAG, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and trace tools to debug hard problems
Instrument systems for performance and reliability; feed data to Grafana/Foxglove for analysis
Partner with cross functional teams to isolate issues quickly in lab and field environments
Document designs, decisions, and interfaces clearly for internal and external stakeholders
Qualification
Required
Bachelors in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or related field
4+ years professional embedded software experience (bare metal and/or RTOS)
Strong proficiency in C and production Rust (unsafe code discipline, ownership semantics)
Hands-on CUDA development on embedded or edge-class GPUs (Jetson, similar)
Experience with ARM-based SoCs, memory-mapped I/O, DMA, interrupts, IPC
Proven work on secure boot, cryptography libraries, key management, or similar security-critical code
Comfortable with Linux internals, cross-compilers, build systems, and hardware debugging tools
Solid Git/GitHub workflows and familiarity with modern CI/CD
US Citizenship and ability to potentially obtain/maintain security clearance
Preferred
Experience with Zephyr, FreeRTOS, or seL4
Knowledge of DSP, real-time networking, or RF signal chains
Azure or other cloud services for telemetry ingestion
Benefits
Long-term stock incentives
Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance
Four weeks of paid time off per year
Company
Castelion
Castelion is a defense tech company that applies modern hardware development and manufacturing processes to national security challenges.
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$469.61MKey Investors
Lightspeed Venture PartnersSilicon Valley BankAndreessen Horowitz
2025-12-05Series B· $350M
2025-01-29Series A· $70M
2025-01-29Debt Financing· $30M
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