Embedded Systems Test Engineer Avionics

Salary: $80,000 - 120,000 per year Requirements:

• Strong embedded C or C++ programming skills, with working knowledge of assembly language; PowerPC and/or Intel x86 assembly experience is preferred.
• Experience developing low-level software that directly interfaces with board-level hardware on PowerPC and/or Intel x86 processors.
• Strong understanding of processor architecture, including registers, memory addressing, memory-mapped I/O, interrupts and exceptions, timers, cache behavior, bus interfaces, and boot/initialization sequences.
• Ability to read electronic schematics, component data sheets, memory maps, and register definitions and translate them into functioning diagnostic software.
• Understanding of volatile and nonvolatile memory technologies, including RAM and FLASH.
• Experience with board-level diagnostics, Built-In Test (BIT), manufacturing test, acceptance test, or hardware verification software.
• Experience debugging embedded hardware/software interactions at the register and signal level.
• Ability to independently investigate unfamiliar hardware, determine how devices and interfaces operate, and define practical methods to verify them.
• Ability to work effectively with legacy systems where source code or documentation may be incomplete, inconsistent, or unavailable.
• Experience with Honeywell PRIMUS EPIC or APEX avionics hardware and software.
• Detailed knowledge of Honeywell HBIT architecture, execution, fault reporting, and diagnostic philosophy.
• Experience with avionics PBIT, CBIT, IBIT, or HBIT implementations.
• Experience developing test software for avionics Line Replaceable Units (LRUs) or Line Replaceable Modules (LRMs).
• Experience with legacy Intel 486, Pentium II, or Mobile Pentium hardware and associated board-level diagnostic software.
• Experience with safety-critical or high-reliability embedded systems.
• Experience with Ethernet MAC/PHY diagnostics, JTAG-based debugging, FPGA/CPLD interfaces, and hardware/software integration.
• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related technical discipline is preferred; equivalent demonstrated experience may be considered in lieu of a specific degree.
• Five or more years of embedded software development experience is preferred.
• Significant experience developing software that directly interfaces with board-level hardware is strongly preferred.
• Ability to relocate to Lees Summit, MO 64063 before starting work is preferred.
• Bachelors degree preferred.
• Embedded software experience preferred.

• Design, build, debug, document, and support embedded diagnostic and functional test software for PowerPC- and Intel x86-based hardware platforms.
• Review schematics, processor manuals, memory maps, interface specifications, component data sheets, and existing source code to determine effective hardware test approaches.
• Create low-level tests that interact with hardware directly rather than depending only on higher-level operating system services.
• Develop and validate diagnostics for memory, FLASH, Ethernet, interrupt controllers, timers, watchdogs, processor and peripheral registers, memory-mapped I/O, communications interfaces, video controllers, discrete/digital I/O, board-level buses, and other platform resources.
• Build memory diagnostics that can identify address, data, stuck-bit, coupling, and device-level faults; create FLASH diagnostics for identification, addressing, integrity, and read/write/erase verification where permitted by the architecture.
• Develop Ethernet controller diagnostics that verify initialization, register access, transmit/receive behavior, loopback operation, interrupts, and interface status.
• Create interrupt and watchdog diagnostics that verify generation, masking, prioritization, servicing, clearing, timeout behavior, reset behavior, and fault detection.
• Develop or adapt startup, initialization, and processor-specific assembly routines needed to establish and manage the hardware test environment.
• Troubleshoot hardware/software interactions using JTAG, hardware debuggers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, Ethernet test equipment, and other lab instruments.
• Evaluate existing hardware and software designs to determine how built-in-test capabilities can be reused, adapted, or incorporated across supported processor platforms.
• Document test algorithms, software interfaces, hardware dependencies, expected results, fault conditions, and diagnostic coverage, and take part in design reviews, integration, troubleshooting, and formal verification activities.

• Apex
• Embedded
• Ethernet
• FPGA
• Hardware
• Support
• Mobile

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Founded in 1997, we are an FAA- and EASA-approved Part 145 Repair Station specializing in repair and support for new-generation and legacy avionics systems and components. We provide services across glass cockpit displays, TCAS, weather radar, nav/comm systems, and more for corporate, fleet, Part-135 charter, avionics broker, military, rotor wing, commercial air transport, and avionics OEM markets. Our engineering team develops innovative testing, repair, and troubleshooting capabilities, including automated and manual avionics test systems, replacements for obsolete parts and components, improved troubleshooting tools and processes, data analysis, and electrical, mechanical, and software reverse engineering and design. This is a hybrid remote role based in Lees Summit, Missouri, with pay ranging from $80,000 to $120,000 per year and benefits including 401(k), 401(k) matching, dental, flexible schedule, flexible spending account, health, life, paid time off, retirement, and vision insurance.

last updated 40 week of 2026