Embedded Software Designer

Job Description

Job Description

Salary :

Embedded Software Designer

Burlington ON Hybrid

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About the Role

This is not a narrow, stay-in-your-lane software role.

As an Embedded Software Designer at PVLabs, you design and build real-time software systems that sit at the core of our airborne optical platforms. Your work spans the full lifecyclearchitecture, design, implementation, verification, debug, deployment, and long-term evolutionof software that directly controls flight-proven, stabilized gimbals and ISR payloads.

We treat software as a product, not a by-product. Our architecture is modular, component-driven, and intentionally designed for change. Youll work on distributed, multi-processor real-time systems where clarity, testability, and long-term maintainability matter as much as raw performance. Monolithic codebases and just make it work thinking dont survive here.

Youll collaborate closely with systems, electrical, mechanical, and optical engineersnot as support, but as a peerbringing software judgment to the table as we solve hard problems in stabilization, sensing, and control within demanding operational environments.

What Youll Be Responsible For

Reporting to the VP, New Product Introduction, and working closely with Program and Project leads, you will :

Technical Skills Youll Need

High-Value (Nice-to-Have) Skills

About You as an Embedded Software Engineer

At PVLabs, how we work matters as much as what we build.

Were looking for engineers who combine deep technical skill with professional maturity and strong judgment. Youre curious, detail-driven, and motivated by solving hard problems properlynot just quickly.

About You :

Qualifications

Whats in It for You

Youll work on real, fielded technology : stabilized opto-mechanical platforms, high-speed data systems, control systems, camera and lens systems, real-time video pipelines, distributed I / O, and advanced laser-enabled payloads.

These systems operate in demanding ISR environments where precision and reliability matter.

Youll join a team of brilliant engineers with serious technical depth and the autonomy to do meaningful work. We value Mastery, Autonomy, and Purpose, and we strive for Resiliency, Innovation, and Productivity in everything we build. We move fast. We build complicated, expensive things that fly.

We dont do egowe do execution. If you want hands-on impact, technical ownership, and work that genuinely matters, PVLabs is where youll find it.