Senior Embedded Software Engineer
📌Burnaby, Canada 🇨🇦
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
on-site
We are currently seeking a qualified Senior Embedded Software Engineer to work on leading-edge technology products.
Location: Burnaby, BC
Schedule: Onsite
Compensation: Base pay + Performance based Quarterly Bonus + Equity + Stock options
Description
We are looking for a Senior Member of Technical Staff (SMTS) with deep expertise in embedded software to play a critical role in architecting, developing, and optimizing software for our next-generation embedded systems. In this position, you will lead complex development efforts, contribute to platform architecture decisions, and help guide junior engineers through technical challenges.
You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams including hardware design, system architecture, and applications engineering to deliver high-performance 3D sensing reference designs.
Responsibilities.
- Architect, develop, and maintain embedded software across the full stack - from low-level drivers and kernel modules to middleware and user-space applications using C/C++ and Python.
- Design and customize Linux-based embedded systems, including building and maintaining Yocto-based distributions and Board Support Packages (BSPs).
- Lead bring-up and integration of custom hardware platforms, including bootloader, kernel, and driver development.
- Develop and debug device drivers and peripheral interfaces (SPI, I2C, UART, USB, Ethernet).
- Drive performance optimization of networking stacks and real-time data processing in embedded Linux systems.
- Analyze and troubleshoot system-level issues across hardware/software boundaries using tools such as JTAG, logic analyzers, and profiling utilities.
- Contribute to system architecture, interface design, and long-term platform scalability.
- Define and implement software development best practices, including CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, and automated validation.
- Mentor and support junior engineers, conduct technical reviews, and provide guidance on complex issues.
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Create detailed technical documentation, design specifications, and debugging procedures.
- Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent work experience.
- 8+ years of embedded software development.
- Expert-level proficiency in C and C++, with experience in Python.
- Strong experience with Linux kernel, driver development, and Yocto build system.
- Hands-on experience with networking protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, MQTT, etc.).
- Familiarity with bootloaders, BSP development, and real-time constraints.
- Experience debugging embedded systems using JTAG, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers.
- Knowledge of system profiling, memory management and performance optimization.
- Ability to read and interpret data sheets to inform implementation.
- Expertise of working in Linux environments.
- Expertise in Source code version control (Git).
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience in Lidar, 3D Sensing Systems or real-time imaging systems.
- Hands-on experience of real-time operating systems (RTOS) and bare-metal development.
- Familiarity with hardware bring-up and board support package (BSP) development.
- Understanding of security best practices for embedded systems.
- Familiarity with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket).
- Familiarity with working in Agile environments (Scrum / Kanban).
- Familiarity with embedded software development e.g. C, C++
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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