About Nordic Air Defence

Nordic Air Defence is a Swedish defence-tech company pioneering cost-effective, solutions for modern aerial security. Our first products are based on the Kreuger, battery powered, drone interceptor platform. It is designed to counter evolving UAS threats with unmatched speed and agility at a fraction of the cost of current systems. Nordic Air Defence is, at its core, a mission drive company—developing solutions to safeguard democratic values and societal stability. This is a chance to play a key role in a fast-growing team while tackling one of our times existential challenges.

The Role

• Design, implement, and maintain real-time, mission-critical software for C-UAS systems.
• Support board bring-up and peripheral integration; develop custom bootloaders, HALs, and drivers as needed; build guidance, navigation, and mission applications.
• Collaborate across the software lifecycle: define interfaces and test strategy, build diagnostics and tooling, and support verification and validation (SIL/HIL).
• Profile and debug on constrained targets to achieve deterministic, reliable behaviour; participate in architecture discussions and code reviews and improve tooling and CI.
• Work cross-functionally (controls, perception, avionics, mechanical) to deliver integrated system capabilities.
• Mentor junior engineers and set the standard for professionalism and effective SW development pratices

Required Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated experience developing in C for low-level ARM MCUs: bare-metal/RTOS, peripherals, drivers.
• Full proficiency with modern C++ development for application layer SW: OOP design, RAII/templates, testability, and efficiency on constrained systems.
• Python and shell scripting for tooling and test automation.
• Real-time development experience (RTOS and bare-metal) with a clear understanding of scheduling, interrupts, timing analysis, and concurrency.
• Strong debugging skills (JTAG/SWD, logic analysers, oscilloscopes) and comfort profiling performance under limited CPU/RAM/power budgets.
• Fully proficient in English (the spoken language in our office)
• Proficiency with Git and Linux-based development environments.
• Must be able to obtain security clearance in Sweden

Desired Qualifications

• STM32 experience (HAL/LL) and secure/OTA-capable bootloaders.
• Embedded networking.
• CI/CD (hardware-in-the-loop, regression testing).
• Safety/quality standards exposure (e.g., DO-178C, IEC-61508/ISO-26262, SIL levels).
• Aerospace/defence domain experience