Embedded Systems Architect Engineer

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Maxar Intelligence is a provider of secure, precise geospatial intelligence. We deliver disruptive value to government and commercial customers to help them monitor, understand, and navigate our changing planet. Our unique approach combines decades of deep mission understanding and a proven commercial and defense foundation to deploy solutions and deliver insights with unrivaled speed, scale, and cost-effectiveness.
We are hiring immediately for Embedded Systems Architect Engineer in our Westminster, CO office. The position has the flexibility to work in the office, work from home, or a combination.
Your Career
As an Embedded Systems Architect Engineer, you will lead the design and development of embedded hardware systems, ensuring seamless integration with real-time operating systems and mission-critical frameworks. You'll analyze, select, and integrate hardware components while collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams to deliver reliable, high-performance solutions for aerospace environments.
What you'll do day-to-day:
You'll start your day by reviewing design challenges and working closely with mission architects to refine embedded hardware specifications. Your morning could include selecting critical components, analyzing hardware trade-offs, and ensuring compatibility with real-time software frameworks.
By midday, you might be deep into a hardware analysis session-evaluating power efficiency, signal integrity, or thermal performance. You'll collaborate with vendors to identify the most reliable hardware options while preparing for design reviews with cross-functional teams.
In the afternoon, you'll test and validate prototypes, troubleshooting integration challenges alongside software engineers. You'll fine-tune hardware performance to ensure seamless interaction with RTOS environments, ensuring every component meets strict aerospace standards.
At the end of the day, you'll document your progress and outline the next steps for hardware iterations, knowing your work directly contributes to the reliability and success of critical aerospace systems.
Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in embedded hardware system design, preferably in the aerospace or defense sector.
• Strong understanding of system architecture principles for embedded hardware platforms, including space-grade or radiation-tolerant systems.
• Familiarity with FPGA programming and low-level driver development.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity requirements for embedded systems.
• Hands-on experience with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and system-level testing.
• Experience with hardware/software integration, including working closely with RTOS frameworks.
• Knowledge of aerospace industry standards and certification processes (e.g., DO-254, MIL-STD).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Architect and design embedded hardware systems, ensuring alignment with system requirements and aerospace industry standards.
• Define system interfaces and lead hardware/software integration activities.
• Perform system-level trade studies and recommend optimal design paths to balance performance, power, size, and cost.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to ensure hardware compatibility with real-time operating systems (RTOS) such as VxWorks, FreeRTOS, or QNX.
• Analyze timing and performance requirements, ensuring hardware designs meet the real-time constraints of mission-critical systems.
• Evaluate and select processors, FPGAs, memory modules, and other critical components based on system needs and environmental constraints.
• Collaborate with suppliers and vendors to source reliable, high-performance hardware components.
• Lead hardware design reviews, validation, and verification processes.

Life with Us:
Maxar has been recognized by Built In as a "Best Place to Work" in both Colorado and Washington D.C., making it a top workplace. This designation is based on analysis of compensation, benefits, and focus on remote and flexible work options, employee programs, and more.
There is a reason we boast awards like Best Employer, Best Place to Work, Top Employer, and Candidate Experience Winner. Our strength is in our people. Each team member makes a unique contribution.
to our collective mission. So, we recognize that with best-in-class benefits like:

• 401K matching and immediate vesting schedule
• Career growth opportunities
• Family-friendly benefits like maternity and paternity leave, adoption reimbursement, flexible hours, hybrid work options
• Programs to help you grow, like tuition reimbursement, hackathons, and career development
• Student loan repayment
• Generous time off
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision at affordable monthly rates

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In support of pay transparency at Maxar, we disclose salary ranges on all U.S. job postings. The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the salary range provided below and is determined based on job-related factors, including, but not limited to, the experience, qualifications, knowledge, skills, geographic work location, and market conditions. Candidates with the minimum necessary experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skillsets for the position should not expect to receive the upper end of the pay range.
• The base pay for this position within Colorado is: $98,000.00 - $164,000.00 annually.
For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health and welfare insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.maxar.com/careers/benefits
The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. If the job is reposted regardless of reason, it will remain posted three days from the date the job is reposted and will remain reposted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.
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Maxar Technologies values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.