Senior Embedded SW Engineer – San Francisco – A well‑known Robotics start up
A well‑known Robotics start up based out of San Francisco are looking for an experienced Senior/Staff Embedded SW Engineer to join their high‑performing engineering team. The ideal candidate will have solid C/C++ skills, experience building safety critical embedded systems with Real time operating systems (RTOS).
Responsibilities
- Implement new features and isolate existing software with real time needs. Identify the compute architecture and OS (RTOS, which RTOS, or bare metal), communication & serialization protocol, gather requirements and compute performance metrics.
- Partner cross‑functionally (electrical, mechanical, software, networking) on architecture and infrastructure choices.
- Support system integration, test, and debug; participate in demonstrations and pilot deployments
Requirements
- Proven experience designing deterministic (real time) software within constrained resources (memory, processing)
- Experience with the design of redundant hardware and software systems
- Strong knowledge of Embedded C/C++
- Experience with CAN bus systems and associated tools
- Experience with data serialization protocols for embedded systems
- Collaboration with Linux (and similar) application stack (i.e., define common interfaces, tests) and excitement to dive into more of the “higher‑level” general and robotics software when needed.
Nice to have
- Experience with Hardware‑in‑the‑loop (HIL) systems
- Experience with ROS or other robotics middleware platforms.
- Knowledge of bootloaders and implementation with various communication protocols