Job Description
In modern conflict, detection is everything.
But what if your system could detect without giving away its position?
What if you could track a threat in real time - without sending a signal?
What if the edge of the electromagnetic spectrum wasn’t just a battleground, but your advantage?
This company is answering those questions.
They’re designing fielded sensor systems that combine hardware, signal processing, and embedded intelligence - all built and owned here in Australia. Just tech that works, and is already in the hands of customers.
They’re now hiring a Software Engineering Lead to head up the embedded software team behind these products. You'll be managing engineers working at the lowest levels of the stack - Embedded C/C++, firmware, FPGA/VHDL - with direct influence over product capability and technical direction.
What You’ll Do
* Lead a 5-person embedded software team delivering real-time sensing and control software
* Build new features, maintain legacy systems, and ensure everything shipped is ready for the field
* Review code, manage team priorities, unblock engineers, and align delivery with broader product goals
* Interface with other engineering streams (hardware, systems, infra, apps) to ensure end-to-end integration
* Lift the bar on quality through best practices in design, documentation, testing and dev tooling
What You Bring
* Australian citizenship and NV1 clearance (or eligibility)
* 2–3+ years hands-on experience with embedded software/firmware development in real-time, multi-threaded environments and FPGAs
* Comfortable leading projects or small teams and coaching engineers through complexity
* Practical mindset: you know how to balance beautiful code with tight field requirements
Why Join
You won’t be building prototypes that sit in a lab. You’ll be leading the team responsible for the software that runs on deployed systems - systems built to perform in contested environments and unpredictable conditions.
This is tech that matters. Built locally. Backed by real customers. And growing fast.
Reach out to Thaís on thais@theonset.com.au