Leadership in an engineering student organization such as Formula SAE, a rocketry club, a CubeSat or satellite team, a robotics team, or Solar Car, especially if you owned the software or electronics for a vehicle and saw it through to competition or flight• An internship or co-op in embedded, aerospace, robotics, or automotive software• Microcontroller firmware (STM32, ESP32, or similar), on an RTOS or bare metal• Serial buses (UART, SPI, I2C) and bringing up a new device from its datasheet• Python for test and tooling, plus CMake and CI• Flight software or robotics frameworks such as F Prime or ROS. • Getting up to speed on writing software for space (fault tolerance, radiation upsets, updating a vehicle that's already in orbit)• Flight software in C++ and C, from device drivers and firmware up through the components that wire subsystems together• The embedded Linux on our flight computers: building images, debugging on target, and keeping the services on it healthy• Microcontroller firmware for the sensors and actuators that move and dock our vehicles• Tests, CI, and hardware-in-the-loop setups that catch problems before they reach a vehicle• Bringing new boards into the software stack alongside the avionics team.