Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Systems
📌Emeryville, United States 🇺🇸
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ senior
Our offices are in Emeryville and Santa Clara, California.
About this Role :
As a Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Systems you’ll start by owning the uptime and reliability of our prototyping and development fleet of hardware, electronics, and software that drive the Matter Compiler. You’ll develop safe release processes and company-wide visibility on the operational status of the units in the fleet, increasing the development velocity for all our power electronic device, materials process, and embedded systems engineers.
You’ll rationalize our hardware configuration management process and act as the first line of defense for early diagnosis and triage of unexpected machine behavior. Standing up hardware-in-the-loop processes and building the playbooks for scaled operation is second nature to you. You can diagnose an issue with a tool ring or an electrical board and then perform basic repairs on your own.
You’ll be joining a fast-paced, interdisciplinary environment with close collaboration across teams — including modeling and simulation, materials science, process development, and mechanical engineering — as we bring truly novel technology to life.
This role is based in Emeryville (preferred) or Santa Clara and is well-suited to an engineer with strong fundamentals, curiosity, and the fire to grow into systems-level thinking.
What You’ll Do:
- Operate and debug software and firmware for complex robotics with hard real-time constraints.
- Work at multiple levels of the Matter Compiler, including software, hardware, and electronics.
- Work within cross functional teams to implement and execute verification tests.
- Diagnose and document mechatronic and process issues throughout the hardware and software development life cycle.
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Extend machine control software to improve observability.
- 5 + years of industry experience with precision hardware, scientific instruments, or similar
- Bachelor of Science in a technical field with heavy exposure to machine control
- Familiarity with C/C++ and Python programming and debugging
- Familiarity with how motors and robots work at several length- and time-scales
- Experience designing, building, and shipping complex processes in a hardware-aware environment
- Experience with instrumenting software for observability and debugging.
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Familiarity with version control, Infrastructure-as-Code, and DevOps workflows.
- Experience debugging APIs and infrastructure that support operation of manufacturing nodes, material transport systems, and the system-level controller.
- Familiarity with the fundamentals of robotic systems, such as feedback control systems, motion planning, and computer vision.
- Experience identifying needs, then proposing and standing up processes and communication forums that span organizational divisions.
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Strong bias to metrology and observability over tribal knowledge
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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