Senior Embedded Software Engineer
📌Herndon, United States 🇺🇸
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
We are looking for an experienced Embedded Software Engineer with a strong background in real-time systems, power electronics control, and industrial communication. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise and a proactive mindset to help design and develop robust embedded solutions for modern energy and power electronics applications.
✅ Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement firmware for embedded systems used in power monitoring, switching control, and energy computation.
- Develop and optimize signal processing algorithms.
- Work with various microcontrollers and processors, including:
- TI DSPs (e.g., C2000, TMS320F28x)
- ARM Cortex-M/R/A MCUs from ST, NXP, Microchip, and others
- FPGA
- Interface with high-resolution ADCs and analog front ends to acquire voltage and current signals.
- Implement industrial communication protocols:
- RS-485, Modbus RTU/TCP, CAN, CAN FD, SPI, I2C, UART
- Ethernet (UDP/TCP/IP), MQTT, SNMP, or custom lightweight protocols
- Ensure synchronization and time-alignment across multiple acquisition and control nodes.
- Collaborate with hardware engineers to ensure end-to-end integration and testing.
- Analyze system behavior and optimize firmware performance using lab tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and in-circuit debuggers.
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Document system interfaces, data structures, and integration points clearly and professionally.
- At least 6 years of experience in embedded software development for control, measurement, or energy systems.
- Strong command of embedded C/C++, bare-metal and/or RTOS-based programming.
- Experience with digital signal processing and energy algorithms.
- Hands-on experience with ARM-based MCUs and TI DSPs and FPGA.
- Deep understanding of communication buses and protocols in industrial environments.
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Proficiency in debugging and hardware/software integration.
- Familiarity with power system standards (e.g., IEC 62053, IEC 61000, ANSI C12.20).
- Knowledge of FPGA or HDL-based signal processing (optional).
- Experience with multi-core architecture or task separation for control vs. metrology.
- Understanding of timing-critical systems, sync logic, and hardware-software co-design.
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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