Senior Embedded Software Engineer (f/m/d)

What You Will Do

• Embedded Firmware Development: You design, implement, and maintain firmware for ARM-Cortex based systems (Cortex-M, Cortex-A, or similar). You work close to the hardware — registers, peripherals, interrupts, timers, DMA, and real-time constraints.
• Hardware-Software Interface: You bring up new boards, write drivers, and ensure clean interaction between firmware and the underlying electronics. You understand what the signals on the scope actually mean.
• Physics-Aware Engineering: You treat physics as a first-class citizen. Thermal behavior, signal integrity, timing, power domains, and real-world noise are part of your daily thinking — not afterthoughts.
• Independent Ownership: You plan, prioritize, and execute your work autonomously. You identify risks early, propose solutions, and drive topics from concept to working, tested firmware.
• Team Collaboration: You communicate openly and honestly. You share knowledge, give and take feedback directly, and contribute to a culture that values clarity over politics.
• Solution Focus: You actively look for robust, maintainable solutions. When problems appear, you own them and resolve them instead of creating new ones.

Your first 5 months – What You’ll Be Proud to Have Achieved

• Language: German (Native/Fluent) & English (Fluent)
• You have familiarized yourself with the chip architecture and have developed the first rapid firmware solutions to test and validate key features.
• You have closed at least one complex hardware-software interaction issue by combining measurement, analysis, and pragmatic code changes.
• You have established or improved a practical development/test workflow that reduces friction for the team.
• Experience & Mindset: Solid experience in embedded C development on ARM-Cortex processors. You have already shipped firmware that runs in real products. A strong foundation in physics or the clear will to deepen that knowledge is essential.
• Ownership & Autonomy: You work self-directed and self-managing. You don’t wait to be told the next step — you see what needs doing and do it.
• Technical Depth: You are comfortable reading datasheets, debugging with oscilloscopes and logic analyzers, and writing efficient, reliable low-level code. Understanding of real-time systems, interrupts, and hardware constraints is natural for you.
• Team Culture Fit: You value open, honest communication and prefer solving problems over discussing them endlessly. You are solution-oriented by nature.
• Nice to have: Experience with RTOS, bare-metal development, FPGAs and VHDL/VERILOG or previous work in industrial or similarly demanding environments.

Why Join Us?

• Location: Germany (Erding / On-Site Hybrid)Compensation: Depending on your experience, performance, and background (€80k–€120k)
• Mission with Real Impact: Work on technologies that support police and military forces in modern defence operations — in an environment where communication has direct strategic relevance.
• Ownership & Growth: You will have genuine influence on how Lateration presents itself externally and how the company is positioned within the defence-tech ecosystem.
• Strong Team & Environment: We offer a highly supportive team culture, close collaboration with founders, and a pragmatic “no one gets left out in the rain” mindset.
• Flexible & Supportive Environment: We offer a remote-friendly setup, flexible working hours, a supportive team culture, and a shuttle service from Erding station to our HQ.

The Mission & Role While others design the circuits, you make the silicon think. You own the embedded software that turns ARM-Cortex processors into reliable, real-world systems. You write the firmware that lives close to the metal, understands the physics of the hardware, and delivers clean, deterministic behavior under real operating conditions. Part low-level architect, part pragmatic problem-solver, part team player who prefers solutions over new problems. You don’t just write code — you take full ownership of the software foundation our products depend on.

We are looking for someone who wants to build real systems — not just write code. If you enjoy the intersection of software, hardware, and physics, and if you prefer ownership and clear results over bureaucracy, we should talk.