Embedded Software Engineer - Real-Time Embedded LOCATION: Role Description
We are looking to recruit an exceptional Embedded Software Engineer - Real-Time Embedded to develop the foundational software that keeps our robot hardware alive, building the core systems that provide a platform for robust, safe, and deterministic operation.
Responsibilities
- Adapt and integrate a safety certifiable Real Time Operating System (RTOS) and associated drivers for purpose built robotic control hardware.
- Collaborate with hardware engineers to design, develop, and optimize high performance safety-critical systems.
- Develop and adapt device drivers for hardware peripherals (e.g. GPIO, EtherCAT, SPI).
- Build tools to monitor, verify and optimize real time system performance, ensuring deterministic behavior.
- Contribute to a deterministic and reproducible build and test environment for efficient development.
- Collaborate with functional safety engineers to ensure compliance with relevant safety standards and support audit and traceability requirements.
- Develop robust solutions for over-the-air (OTA) updates, calibration management and software deployment strategies.
- Solve complex, real-world challenges alongside a multi-disciplinary team
Qualifications Must-have
- MS in computer engineering, computer science or a related discipline.
- Experience with safety-certifiable RTOSes (e.g. PX5, ThreadX, SafeRTOS).
- Expertise in OS fundamentals, including real-time scheduling and memory management.
- Strong understanding of ARM 64 hardware architecture.
- Experience with multicore SoCs, interprocess/intercore communications and atomic operations.
- Production experience with communication protocols (e.g. Ethernet, EtherCAT, CAN)
- Proficiency in low level programming (C, assembly)
- Understanding of bootloaders, hardware abstraction layers and board support packages (BSPs).
- Hands on experience with development tools including oscilloscopes, hardware debuggers and high speed tracing techniques (e.g. HSSTP).
- Understanding of toolchains (compilers, linkers, debuggers, static analysis tools)
- Familiarity with functional safety (FuSa) concepts, MISRA compliance, and related standards.
- Self starter attitude with strong ability to identify problems, prioritize them, then plan and execute working solutions.
- Enthusiasm for working in a fast paced startup environment and eagerness to support the team on a variety of topics.
Nice-to-have
- Knowledge of ARM SIMD/NEON architecture extensions.
- Proficiency in additional programming languages (e.g. C++, Python, Rust, Golang).
- Experience with multi language build systems (e.g. Bazel, Bob).
- Familiarity with ROS 2 middleware and alternatives (e.g. FastDDS, CycloneDDS, Zenoh).
- Experience with Docker, and related containerization tools.