Embedded Software Engineer
📌Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ mid-level
We’re looking for an Embedded Software Engineer to join our team in Port Melbourne and help develop high-performance optical processing solutions on NVIDIA Jetson platforms. Sitting at the crossroads of embedded systems, computer vision, and optical engineering, this role is perfect for someone excited to push the limits of edge-based AI systems.
You’ll work with industry experts across AI, imaging, and hardware, building low-latency software pipelines to manage complex data from advanced optical sensors in mission-critical environments.
What You'll Do:
- Design and develop embedded software for optical systems using NVIDIA Jetson platforms.
- Build mission system applications and calibration/maintenance tools.
- Integrate RGB, NIR, thermal, and hyperspectral sensors via MIPI CSI, ethernet, or GMSL.
- Interface with image signal processors (ISPs) and configure image tuning pipelines.
- Collaborate with hardware engineers to ensure synchronisation, timing, and signal integrity.
- Build and optimise calibration tools and synchronisation software.
- Profile and tune performance for frame rate, latency, and thermal efficiency in low-SWaP environments.
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Engage with key industry partners on integration and deployment.
- Significant experience in embedded software development, particularly in imaging or optical systems.
- Proficiency in C++, with strong embedded development experience.
- Familiar with Linux, including NVIDIA-specific platforms (JetPack, L4T, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with camera sensor integration and optical tuning.
- Solid understanding of camera pipelines, calibration, and synchronisation.
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Knowledge of IoT and how embedded systems integrate into broader networks.
- Experience in real-time image processing for aerospace, robotics, or defence applications.
- Familiarity with synchronising high-frame-rate or multi-camera systems.
- Understanding of lens calibration and optical modelling.
- Exposure to AI/ML inference on optical data (e.g., real-time classification or detection).
- Experience with RTOS or time-critical Linux environments.
- Familiarity with GMSL, sensor fusion, and high-speed acquisition pipelines.
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Experience with video tools such as FFmpeg and GStreamer.
Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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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