Embedded Systems Engineer
📌Pisa, Italy 🇮🇹
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ mid-level
hybrid
About our Client
A European robotics startup developing advanced manipulators for use in space, subsea, and nuclear environments. Headquartered in Italy, with strong ties to aerospace primes and research programs, the team operates at the frontier of robotic actuation, control, and autonomy.
Job Description
Role Snapshot
You’ll join the Space Division in Pisa, Italy to build full‑system control for dexterous robotic manipulators used in In‑Orbit Servicing & Assembly and Debris Removal. You’ll turn proprietary Fluid Wire actuators into reliable, flight‑ready subsystems through modeling, control, and rigorous experimentation. You’ll work across simulation, hardware, and integration so controllers perform on floating base platforms under uncertainty. Hybrid work is possible, aligned to hands‑on experimental schedules.
Key Responsibilities
- Characterize next‑gen actuators and build high‑fidelity models capturing compliance, friction, backlash, and fluid dynamics for simulation‑ready use
- Design and validate joint‑level controllers for position, velocity, and force or impedance with flexible transmissions, ensuring robust simulation‑to‑hardware transfer
- Architect system‑level control for complete arms on floating base platforms, including hierarchical control, supervisory logic, fault handling, and safety
- Implement real‑time teleoperation with latency compensation and optional haptic feedback, delivering reliable human‑in‑the‑loop control under variable networks
- Plan and run experiments end to end, from sensor calibration and DAQ to custom test rigs, extracting insights that drive design decisions and iteration speed
- Collaborate with mechanical and electronics teams on interfaces and sensor choices, contribute to system integration, and support mentoring of junior engineers
What You Bring
Technical Toolkit
- Control theory, robotics kinematics and dynamics, system identification, signal processing
- MATLAB, Simulink, multibody simulation tools
- ROS2, C/C++, Python
- Electric actuators, compliant or cable drives, series elastic elements, sensors, DAQ
- Ethernet, EtherCAT, CAN or CANopen, UDP or TCP, real‑time control, haptics
Professional Experience
- Deliver end‑to‑end control solutions from modeling to hardware validation for complex manipulators
- Design rigorous identification experiments, calibrate sensors, and build or adapt test rigs for precise measurements
- Implement hierarchical control and safety for floating base or underactuated systems in unstructured environments
- Partner effectively across disciplines, document clearly, and support interns or junior engineers
Nice-to-have
- Space robotics operations, ground segment interfaces, vacuum or radiation test exposure
- Teleoperation systems with latency management and haptic devices
- Modeling and control of variable impedance hardware and cable or series elastic transmissions
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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