Embedded Robotics Software Engineer
📌Zurich, Switzerland 🇨🇭
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
on-site
Our mission is to solve the most important and fundamental challenges in AI and Robotics to enable future generations of intelligent machines that will help us all live better lives.
Embedded Robotics Software Engineers will work cross-functionally with a talented team of engineers and researchers to develop cutting-edge robotic systems. Your work will directly contribute to advancing the state of the art. We are onsite in our new Zurich office where we are building a collaborative and exciting new organization.
What You'll Do
- Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively with research, and hardware teams to design, develop, test and maintain software for embedded systems on a variety of robot applications
- Develop high performance algorithms and improve systems
- Develop and maintain low-level software and firmware for custom and 3rd party robots
- Promote quality and reliability through regular code reviews
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Work closely with electrical engineers to develop custom hardware for robotic systems.
- 8+ years experience delivering robust code
- BS or MS in computer science, robotics, physics, electrical/mechanical/aerospace engineering, or a related field
- Experience with C++17 or later
- Experience with C
- Experience with git, issue tracking, CI/CD, and modern software engineering practices
- Experience working with Linux-based platforms and development environments
- Strong troubleshooting skills
- Experience implementing and troubleshooting an RTOS with hard real-time requirements on embedded microcontrollers
- Experience implementing and troubleshooting common communication protocols (CAN, I2C, SPI, RS-485, EtherCAT, etc.)
- Knowledge of synchronization and resource sharing for memory-constrained systems
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Comfortable using common electrical engineering tools (schematics, logic analyzer, oscilloscope, etc.) to evaluate and rework hardware systems
- Experience working with robots, control, kinematics, machine learning, physics simulators, or similar applications
- Experience with data processing, logging, and visualization tools
- Experience with ROS, gRPC, LCM, or other inter-process communication middleware technologies
- Experience operating as a technical lead and providing mentorship to less experienced developers
- Experience with robot sensors (IMU, Cameras, etc.)
- Experience with FPGA and/or FPGA/ARM SOC (i.e. Zynq) programming
- Experience with gcc, cmake, clang
- Experience with bootloaders
- Experience with Python
- experience developing test and validation plans for system integration
- experience performing complex system failure analysis in cross functional teams
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experience developing Linux kernel modules
We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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