Embedded Software Engineer - Platform
Hybrid (based in Austin, Texas USA)
Full-Time | Salary:$100,000-$150,000+ (Depending on experience)
Our client is seeking a Embedded Software Engineer - Platform to join their dynamic team.
What You’ll Be Doing:
You'll have a key role alongside the team in defining how users operate with our platforms from data collection to teleoperation and modular sensor integration. You'll make decisions on what is worth building, investigating, and investing in; as well as what is not. You'll help define how we develop, deploy, and test software in both simulated and real environments; coordinating with electrical and mechanical members whenever you see fit. You'll own part of the product, and will have the agency to make it what you think aligns best with the vision. And if something is missing, you won't need to ask - you'll take what you need and get it done.
Requirements:
- Understand system requirements, negotiating against unnecessary ones and translating the ones that remain into final solutions
- Work with team and users to design hyper-critical features from the ground up - including high-level architecture and workflows
- Prototype, validate, and refine end-to-end features; from sensor integration to how output is relayed over network.
- Test features in both lab and simulated environments to ensure reliability
- Optimize features for network communications in even low bandwidth environments
- Optimize features for hardware when necessary - be it in compute, data transfer, or memory
- Debug complex issues after testing or operation, including those in processing and threading
- Collaborate with hardware system owners for integration and issue-resolution.
- Write essential documentation to communicate design intent, intended framework/SDK use, and post-test recommendations.
- Make your code readable and useable, but not necessarily a work of art.
- Stay up to date on users, best practices, and emerging tech
- Communicate directly with users as necessary to determine engineering direction for specific features
- Willing to work additional hours, especially when necessary for critical milestones
- Hands-on in design, coding, testing, and in-field deployments
- Eager to implement best practices, and fast to communicate needs and desired process changes
- Willing to provide feedback to management and team early and often
- Bachelor's degree preferably in computer science or an engineering discipline
- 1-3+ years of experience developing with hardware, preferably in industry
- Fluent in C/C++, and some fluency in Python or another scripting language
- Base understanding of algorithms, data structures, and software design patterns
- Experience with Linux
- Understanding of communication buses and protocols (CAN, USB, I2C, Ethernet, etc.)
- Comfortable using lab instruments (Oscilloscopes, logic analyzers)
- Some familiarity, even if very limited, of ROS 1/2
- Developed projects beyond the scripting phase, preferably into some form of production/release
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Computational Engineering, or some other engineering
- 5+ years software experience with preferably robotic systems
- Worked at a high-growth startup
- Fluent in C/C++, Python, and some frontend development language (JS or some framework, HTML, CSS)
- Previously worked with ROS 1/2
- Deep understanding of Linux
- Experience implementing real-time software
- Good knowledge of computer architecture
- Deep understanding of communication buses and protocols (CAN, USB, I2C, Ethernet, etc.)
- Comfortable using lab instruments (Oscilloscopes, logic analyzers)
- Experience in networking and wireless communications
- Experience implementing CI/CD infrastructures
- Familiar with Agile and Test driven development
- Strong entrepreneurial track record being an engineer, founder, or operator at a 0 to 1 startup, able and prepared to support scaling across all aspects of engineering, operations, and business
Company Culture:
- Monday - Friday (5 days a week)
- 40-45+ hours a week
- Compensation and Benefits:
- $100,000-$150,000+ (Depending on experience)
- 0.5%-1.5% Equity
- Healthcare (Medical, Dental, Vision)
- Unlimited PTO
- Free meals, swag, and more
