Embedded Platform Engineer

Valinor Enterprises, Inc. • Washington, DC

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About The Position

We're building defense and aerospace technology that has to actually work — in the field, under compliance constraints, across hardware and software simultaneously. To do that, we need someone who can build and own the internal systems that make every team faster.

You'll be the person who looks at a broken workflow, whether it's a hardware test pipeline, a supply chain process, a deployment bottleneck, or a security gap and builds something that fixes it for good. You'll tie together hardware, software, cloud infrastructure and AI tooling into a cohesive internal platform that Valinor's product companies run on.

You'll work across every subsidiary in the portfolio, embedded with engineering and ops teams, and you'll have wide latitude to choose the right tools and build the right systems

Requirements

• 3+ years of real-world experience building and operating production systems — ideally across more than one domain
• A builder mentality: you've owned systems over time, not just handed them off after initial setup
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Python and/or TypeScript
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD (GitHub Actions), containers (Docker/Kubernetes), and cloud platforms
• AI is part of how you work you use it daily for coding, debugging, and documentation, and you've built AI-powered workflows for real internal use cases (compliance reporting, code review, log triage, security automation, etc.)
• You can build with AI APIs end-to-end LLM integration, prompt engineering, orchestration frameworks. Not an ML engineer, but a builder who ships AI-powered tools
• Comfort working across the stack and learning fast
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Nice To Haves

• Some exposure to hardware-adjacent workflows (test data, embedded systems, firmware pipelines) is a strong plus
• Familiarity with government compliance environments (FedRAMP, IL5, STIG) or a strong appetite to learn them
• You work well with ambiguity — a lot of what you'll build doesn't have a spec yet

Responsibilities

• Embed directly with product companies across the Valinor ecosystem — you're not working from a distance. You'll sit with engineering and ops teams at each subsidiary, understand how they actually work, and build solutions shaped around their real constraints and workflows. Your impact is visible and direct.
• Turn what you learn in the field into lasting infrastructure — when you identify a broken process or a gap that's slowing a product team down, you own the fix end-to-end. You're not writing a recommendation and handing it off; you're building the thing and shipping it.
• Be the connective tissue across hardware, software, supply chain, and DevOps — you'll frequently be the person who sees that teams are solving adjacent problems in isolation and builds the integration that makes them work together. That cross-functional view is one of the most valuable things you'll bring.
• Own internal infrastructure end-to-end — cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP), edge deployments, and the pipelines that connect them. You set it up, you keep it running, you make it better.
• Build the internal developer platform — CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions workflows, artifact management (JFrog), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and the tooling that lets engineers ship faster and safer.
• Automate hardware test pipelines and logging — build systems that capture, store, and surface data from hardware testing across embedded and physical systems. Make test results traceable and repeatable.
• Wire together supply chain and inventory workflows — integrate procurement, parts tracking, and inventory systems into the broader engineering and ops stack so nothing falls through the cracks.
• Build continuous security automations — STIG checks, FedRAMP control validation, vulnerability scanning, and compliance reporting shouldn't be manual processes. Automate them.
• Bring AI into internal workflows — identify high-leverage opportunities to use LLMs and AI tooling to accelerate engineering, ops, and compliance work. Build and deploy those tools internally.
• Own government accreditation deployments — manage the deployment process for software delivered to government environments, ensuring we meet IL5, FedRAMP, and STIG requirements at every step.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, equity packages, and benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance - fully covered for employees, 401K, development stipends, among others.
• Unlimited PTO and two-week company holiday at the end of every calendar year.
• We are a pro-mental health and pro-family company - we actually encourage employees to spend time with themselves and their families. Valinor also provides fertility benefits to those just beginning that journey.
• Fun work environment - we like to laugh and take care of each other, but we also deeply respect the mission in front of us.
• Headquartered in Washington DC with additional coworking spaces throughout the country. We also host team offsites and colocations around the U.S.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed