# Senior Embedded Software Engineer [Covenantindustries](https://gurify.com/jobs?q=Covenantindustries) · Grand Prairie, United States · Posted 5 days ago Senior [Apply on the original posting → (opens in a new tab)](https://www.comeet.com/jobs/covenantindustries/3B.00F/senior-embedded-software-engineer/8F.07A) ## Job description ### Title: Embedded Software Engineer ### Location: Grand Prairie, Texas ### COMPANY OVERVIEW Covenant is a global defense company headquartered in Washington, D.C., building long-range precision strike weapons for the United States and its allies. Its flagship munition, Anthem, combines heavy payload and long range at a fraction of the cost of comparable legacy systems, with production volumes designed to meet the demands of prolonged conflict. Designed as an end-to-end weapon system that is simple to store, transport, and field, Anthem is produced in the United States, Germany, and Israel. For more information, visit covenant.com ### THE ROLE We are seeking a high-energy, execution-focused Sr Embedded Software Engineer to bridge the gap between embedded software execution and live operational theater deployment. This role is built for a highly motivated generalist engineer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is excited to move from modifying core flight firmware to deploying hardware straight out into the field. You will own the physical integration, software configuration, and range-readiness of the flight controllers and edge-compute architectures powering our tactical vehicle portfolios. This position requires significant travel to support high-visibility military modernization events, live-fire range evaluations, and remote theater exercises, requiring an operator who is eager to see their code fly in real-world conditions. ### WHAT YOU’LL DO - Custom Autopilot Firmware Modification: Edit, optimize, and maintain native Pixhawk open-source firmware architectures written in C and C++ to inject custom flight behaviors and subsystem overrides. - Sensor Fusion & State Estimation: Maintain, deploy, and refine proprietary, custom-built Kalman Filters (KF/EKF) to optimize vehicle localization, guidance, and navigation loops outside of native autopilot defaults. - Edge Compute Optimization: Deploy, optimize, and benchmark real-time computer vision, guidance, and navigation algorithms onto NVIDIA Jetson edge-compute platforms. - Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) Testing: Build out, program, and manage high-fidelity HWIL testing setups to simulate tactical munition flights, test system communications, and validate autonomous seeker behaviors before range delivery. - GNSS-Denied & RF Integration: Integrate specialized, complex payload hardware including CRPA antenna arrays and S-band software-defined radios (SDRs) to maintain swarm coordination in heavily contested electronic warfare environments. - High-Velocity Field Operations: Drive the physical deployment of communication networks, ground stations, and tracking assets during live-fire contract milestones (CLINs 0001–0005), including Project Convergence and international operational exercises. - Government Customer Interface: Author and brief technical data products, security boundary plans, and software simulation reviews to senior program leadership, military stakeholder agencies, and government laboratories. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS - Experience: ~7+ years of aggressive, hands-on experience spanning embedded flight software development, systems integration, or flight testing within a tactical defense program; includes low-level firmware extraction/reprogramming or hardware-software bridge analysis directly from physical microelectronics or tactical flight hardware platforms. - Core Technical Palette: Absolute mastery of C/C++ programming, computer architecture fundamentals, and script automation via Python. - Hardware-Software Integration: Proven competence configuring flight computers, parsing embedded device drivers, and setting up HWIL simulation environments. - Communication & Protocols: Strong working familiarity with low-level embedded communication protocols (UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, Ethernet, UDP/TCP). - Active U.S. Secret security clearance PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Autopilot & Compute Familiarity: Direct technical familiarity with Pixhawk autopilot environments (PX4/ArduPilot), MAVLink protocols, and NVIDIA Jetson architectures. - FPGA & Digital Logic Competency: Understanding of ASIC/FPGA design constraints, digital logic simulation, and interfacing processors with FPGAs for CRPA swap-overs or S-band mesh network capability integrations. - Contested Navigation: Direct experience with advanced GNSS-denied navigation protocols, anti-jamming subsystems, and signal processing layout optimization. - B.S. or advanced coursework in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Aerospace Engineering. **Live in Covenantindustries’s hiring system.** Read from the company's own applicant tracking system, not reposted from a job board — so it's a real, open requisition rather than an ad that outlived the role. 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