Software Engineer | Aerospace & Defense
About the role
Texas Instruments is seeking a Software Engineer to define requirements, design, develop, test, and integrate embedded software including device firmware, device drivers, and software frameworks. In this role, you will support pre-silicon design and validation activities while developing software and signal processing applications for the Aerospace & Defense sector.
What you'll do
- Define requirements, design, develop, test, integrate, and support embedded software including operating system software, device drivers, and algorithmic libraries.
- Support pre-silicon design and requirements as well as software validation and test activities.
- Influence hardware architecture requirements from software usage, compatibility, performance, and reuse perspectives.
- Develop and apply machine learning algorithms to edge applications, including using AI coding tools for embedded software development.
- Create and maintain customer collateral for software products, tools, and deliverables.
- Perform quality assurance, configuration management, and release management activities across the software life-cycle.
What you'll need
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of relative engineering or research experience.
- Embedded firmware skills and experience, including programming knowledge in C/C++ or other systems programming languages.
- Proficiency in MATLAB or Python with signal processing applications, along with strong assembly programming skills.
- U.S. citizenship, as required for security clearance eligibility.
Nice to have
- Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Electrical and Computer Engineering.
- Experience with digital signal processing (DSP) software, algorithm, and signal chain development in the Aerospace & Defense (A&D) sector.
- Experience with advanced signal processing algorithms, including filter design, FFTs, FIRs, beamforming, linear algebra, 3D mesh processing, voxel processing, and computer vision algorithms.
- Experience with sensor inputs such as Radar, LiDAR, CMOS sensors, Software Defined Radio (SDR), and Cameras.
- Proven ability to optimize code on DSPs (C66x, C7x) with an in-depth understanding of their architecture, as well as optimizing data movement across multi-level memory systems (Level 2, Level 3, and Level 4) and inter-processor communication.
- Knowledge of Machine Learning algorithms, open-source graph compilers like TVM or ExecuTorch, and familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs) such as Claude for code generation.
Skills: C/C++, embedded firmware, DSP, MATLAB, device drivers
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 58-day median for Embedded Firmware Engineering roles.
Embedded Firmware Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
748
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Median days open
58 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$169k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Texas Instruments | All employers we track in this specialty (748 roles · 83 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 4 | 748 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 37 | 6295 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 141 d | 58 d (+83 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $169k |
Skills observed across this category: C/C++, embedded firmware, DSP, MATLAB, device drivers
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 121 open roles · median 69 d
- Micron Technology · 64 open roles · median 89 d
- NVIDIA · 62 open roles · median 56 d
- AMD · 60 open roles · median 46 d
- Lattice Semiconductor · 43 open roles · median 50 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 37 open roles · median 30 d
How we counted: 748 open Embedded Firmware Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 83 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 29 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.